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Syrian opposition talking to Russia about Deraa peace deal, rebel says
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition began negotiations with Russian officers about an agreement to restore state sovereignty over rebel-held parts of the southwestern Deraa province, rebel negotiators said on Saturday.
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Afghan president orders troops to resume operations against Taliban
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani declared a formal end to his government's ceasefire with the Taliban on Saturday but called on the insurgents to agree to full peace talks following a three-day truce during this month's Eid holiday.
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North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say US officials - NBCNews.com
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North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say US officials
NBCNews.com WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies believe that North Korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months — and that Kim Jong Un may try to hide those facilities as he seeks more concessions ... US intelligence believes North Korea making more nuclear bomb fuel despite talks: NBC US intel agencies believe North Korea has increased nuclear fuel production: report Kim Plays the Long Game |
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Trump administration may seek to detain migrant families longer than previously allowed - Washington Post
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Trump administration may seek to detain migrant families longer than previously allowed
Washington Post The Trump administration plans to detain migrant families together in custody rather than release them, according to a new court filing that suggests such detentions could last longer than the 20 days envisioned by a court settlement. “The government ... Trump administration says it will detain migrant families for as long as it takes to prosecute them Feds: Decades-old court decree allows family immigration detention Trump Went Rogue On The Truth This Week |
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Prankster Calls the President, and the White House Puts Him Right Through - New York Times
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Prankster Calls the President, and the White House Puts Him Right Through
New York Times The president of the United States, one of the most protected people on the planet and among the least accessible to the public, would seem to be a long-shot target for a prank caller looking to have some fun. But President Trump, who likes to field ... Dem lawmaker calls prank phone call on Trump 'chilling' Comedian John Melendez Claims Trump Actually Answered His Prank Call & The Audio Is Wild Comedian claims to have successfully prank called Trump |
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Mother charged with murder, torture in death of 10-year-old son - NBCNews.com
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Mother charged with murder, torture in death of 10-year-old son
NBCNews.com An attorney representing the family of the boy said he wonders if caseworkers did enough to protect him. by Phil Helsel / Jun.30.2018 / 3:08 AM ET. Breaking News Emails. Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, ... California mother, boyfriend charged with murder of her son |
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Obama in Bay Area for Atherton fundraiser where tickets go up to $237300 - The Mercury News
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Obama in Bay Area for Atherton fundraiser where tickets go up to $237300
The Mercury News In one of his first appearances supporting Democrats during this year's midterm campaigns, former President Barack Obama came to Silicon Valley Friday to raise big bucks for the party and meet some of the candidates running in hotly contested House ... Obama offers Democrats tough love ahead of midterms: 'Enough moping' Obama Told Trump How to Fix Health Care: Just Name It Something Else and Take Credit for It |
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Luxury’s Chess Masters Prepare for a New Game
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Ed Sheeran sued for second time over Marvin Gaye 'rip-off'
Singer faces $100m lawsuit over claims Thinking Out Loud copied 1973 hit Let’s Get It On
Ed Sheeran has been sued for a second time over allegations that his song Thinking Out Loud rips off Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On.
A company called Structured Asset Sales, which owns part of the copyright of Gaye’s song, is suing Sheeran for $100m (£76.4m), alleging that his 2014 single copies “the melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bass line, backing chorus, tempo, syncopation and looping” of Gaye’s 1973 hit.
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Canada: Syrian children's choir turns down US festival trip over border fears
Toronto’s Nai Kids choir makes decision to stay home in wake of Trump’s travel ban and says it’s ‘not something we wanted to risk’
A Canadian children’s choir made up mostly of recently arrived Syrian refugees has turned down an invite to perform at a prestigious international festival in the US over fears of crossing the border under the Trump administration’s travel ban.
Related: Trump's travel ban: what does the supreme court ruling mean?
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America gave me a good immigrant award. Oh, how bittersweet | Maeve Higgins
My award proves many Americans know how essential immigrants are to our society. If only this understanding reached the White House
I’m not a loser per se, but the truth is I never win anything. Just this week my dental insurance wrote to tell me I didn’t even win a root canal that my dentist nominated me for. So I’m shocked to realize that this Saturday I will be sashaying along under the great domed ceiling of Federal Hall in downtown Manhattan to collect an award. An “Alexander Hamilton Immigrant Achievement” award for my “outstanding contribution to Lower Manhattan and New York State”.
The award is presented by the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, an organization that honors multicultural diversity and celebrates “the dynamic cosmopolitan optimism that defines so much of the American spirit”.
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Why is Trump still so popular? He gives his base what they want | Cas Mudde
A recent Gallup poll showed that, at the 500 days mark, Trump was the second most popular US president among his own constituency. How is that possible?
In the past two months I have been traveling through Europe, talking to academic and non-academic audiences all across the continent about populism. And from Norway to Italy and Hungary to Ireland, people have been asking me the same question: how is it possible that Americans still support President Donald Trump?
Related: Hillary Clinton: 'What is more uncivil than taking children away?'
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Our natural world is disappearing before our eyes. We have to save it | George Monbiot
The creatures we feared our grandchildren wouldn’t see have vanished: it’s happened faster than even pessimists predicted
It felt as disorienting as forgetting my pin number. I stared at the caterpillar, unable to attach a name to it. I don’t think my mental powers are fading: I still possess an eerie capacity to recall facts and figures and memorise long screeds of text. This is a specific loss. As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal. And now it has gone. This ability has shrivelled from disuse: I can no longer identify them because I can no longer find them.
Related: A world without puffins? The uncertain fate of the much-loved seabirds
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America’s most insidious union-buster? Its own government | Sandeep Vaheesan
What do ice skating coaches, organists, public defenders and property managers have in common? The government has sued them all for trying to organize
Over the last several decades, American big business has led a sustained assault on unions. And its mission to undermine worker power has had a quiet but important ally: the government.
What do ice skating coaches, organists, public defenders and property managers have in common? They have all been sued by the US government for attempting to raise their incomes through collective action.
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Donald Trump’s nominee for the supreme court will have to be resisted | Jill Abramson
The campaign against the president’s zealots will be a major test of strength for civil rights and abortion rights groups. A new Democratic lion is needed
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Republican president who is eager to build a clear, conservative majority on the United States supreme court – and too sure of his political ground – overreaches. He picks a rightwing zealot for the open seat created by the retirement of a justice. At stake in the subsequent political battle over his nomination is the constitutional right of American women to have an abortion.
Related: Anthony Kennedy: US supreme court justice to retire
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American 12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes. Why can they work in tobacco fields? | Reid Maki
US law allows children to work for wages in toxic tobacco fields. We urge the tobacco industry to raise the minimum age to 18
It’s no surprise that working in tobacco fields is dangerous. Smoking tobacco kills 6 to 7 million people a year, according to the World Health Organization. The same nicotine that makes tobacco so dangerous – and addictive – harms workers in tobacco fields. What is a surprise to many is that child workers are among those harmed and the United States allows 12-year-olds to work for wages in toxic tobacco fields where children are exposed to nicotine and toxic pesticides.
Related: How we can fight child labour in the tobacco industry
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Minnesota United midfielder Collin Martin comes out as gay
- Midfielder, 23, announces he’s gay ahead of team’s Pride Night
- Martin becomes only active out male athlete in major pro sports
Minnesota United midfielder Collin Martin announced he is gay, making him the only active male athlete in the major professional sports leagues to come out.
Martin made the announcement on social media Friday before the Loons were to host a Pride Night at home against Dallas. He said he’s been out for years with family, friends and teammates and “received only kindness and acceptance from everyone in Major League Soccer”.
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Larry Nassar indicted on six counts of sexual assault at Karolyi Ranch
- Jailed doctor faces six counts of sexual assault of a child
- Former trainer Debbie Van Horn charged with one count
Disgraced ex-sports doctor Larry Nassar and a former trainer were charged with sexual assault Friday following an investigation involving an elite gymnastics center in Texas.
A grand jury indicted Nassar on six counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, Walker County prosecutor Stephanie Stroud announced during a news conference. She said a former trainer, Debbie Van Horn, was charged with one count.
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Serena Williams offered kind return by Wimbledon draw
• Ex-champion plays Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus in first round
• Johanna Konta to play Russia’s Natalia Vikhlyantseva
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• Johanna Konta to play Russia’s Natalia Vikhlyantseva
As Gareth Southgate knows, the draw in any sporting tournament matters most to those with least chance of winning it. To lift the trophy, the best sooner or later have to beat the best, be it on day one or in the final.
Yet the hidden drama in Friday’s women’s singles draw for Wimbledon was unavoidable from top to bottom – most obviously with Serena Williams’s return to the All England Club on Monday, after two years (one tournament) away, against the world No 107, Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands.
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As LeBron James enters free agency, a gnawing joylessness prevails | Les Carpenter
The NBA’s best player could be on his way out of Cleveland (again) after declining his player option on Friday, but there’s something hollow about his thankless pursuit of Michael Jordan’s six titles
LeBron James, who declined his player option with the Cleveland Cavaliers and became a free agent on Friday, is a superstar in a predicament of his own making. He essentially created the culture of NBA stars teaming up to win championships, one that allowed Kevin Durant to make the Golden State Warriors a dynasty at his own expense. The unfortunate thing for James is he gets no credit.
While Durant is hailed as a selfless hero who stifled his ego to win two titles with the Warriors, LeBron is forever measured against a player from another era, a man who found the perfect team and the perfect coach. The cloud that shrouds LeBron’s legacy at age 32 is that he hasn’t become Michael Jordan.
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Comedian claims he tricked Trump with prank call onboard Air Force One
Podcast appears to include conversation with the president in which comedian poses as a senator
Donald Trump appears to have returned a prank phone call from a comedian pretending to be the senator Robert Menendez on Wednesday as he was returning to Washington DC from a rally in North Dakota aboard Air Force One.
John Melendez, a veteran performer on Howard Stern and Jay Leno’s shows, published a podcast episode Thursday that includes a recording of a three minute conversation between himself and what sounds to be the president.
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Trump to announce supreme court pick on 9 July
President announced he has five finalists, including two women, and may interview two contenders this weekend
Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to announce his nominee for a forthcoming vacancy on the supreme court on 9 July – a lightning-quick move to replace the retiring swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81.
Speaking aboard Air Force One en route to his private golf club in New Jersey on Friday afternoon, the president announced that he has five finalists, including two women, out of the shortlist of 25 names that had been previously circulated.
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General Motors warns Trump: tariffs could lead to 'smaller GM' and fewer jobs
Car giant, which employs 180,000 people worldwide, follows Harley-Davidson in warning Trump that tariffs policy is mistake
General Motors warned on Friday that expansive US tariffs on imported vehicles being considered by the Trump administration could lead to “a smaller GM” and risks isolating US businesses from the global market.
Related: Biggest US trade groups warn Trump of 'serious negative impacts' of tariff plan
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More than 700 anti-Trump protests planned across all 50 states
Mass events, spurred by immigration policy and supreme court, urge unity in trying times: ‘It’s not about red or blue’
Organizers of demonstrations expected to take place across all 50 states on Saturday are calling for Americans outraged by Donald Trump’s immigration policies and the prospect of a supreme court swinging sharply right to put aside party differences and protest with one voice.
“This is an all hands on deck, stop the madness moment. It’s not a red or blue thing,” the national protest organizer, Ai-jen Poo, told the Guardian.
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Faang-tastic five: can US tech giants continue their stellar rise?
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google have so far dodged impact of trade war
They are just five companies but they are together worth more than the huge international businesses that make up the entire FTSE 100, more than the companies that comprise Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index, and more than Germany’s Dax and France’s Cac 40 put together.
They are the US technology giants collectively known as Faangs – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (owned by Alphabet these days) – and their stellar stock market performances of the past few years has continued in the first six months of 2018 despite a number of serious headwinds.
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Investors hopeful Mexico's Lopez Obrador will veer to the center
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexican assets are poised to strengthen even if leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins Sunday's presidential election, analysts say, on expectations he will govern from the center and as the uncertainty stemming from the race fades.
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Secret U.N.-Myanmar deal on Rohingya offers no guarantees on citizenship
YANGON/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees returning to Myanmar will have no explicit guarantees of citizenship or freedom of movement throughout the country, under a secret agreement between the government and the United Nations seen by Reuters.
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Jordan source reports south Syria truce; State Department cannot confirm
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - A ceasefire has been agreed for southern Syria between the government and rebels, a Jordanian official source said on Friday, amid fears of a gathering humanitarian catastrophe in a region sensitive to neighbors Jordan and Israel.
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U.S. intelligence believes North Korea making more nuclear bomb fuel despite talks: NBC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try to hide these while seeking concessions in nuclear talks with the United States, NBC News quoted U.S. officials as saying.
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Libyan coastguard says 100 migrants may have drowned near Tripoli
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - More than 100 migrants are feared to have drowned off Libya's western coast after their overloaded boat capsized, coastguard officials said on Friday.
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Malaysia considers amending human trafficking law after U.S. report
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's new government said on Saturday it is considering amending laws on human trafficking and migrant smuggling just days after the U.S. State Department reported a lack of progress in the country's efforts to counter trafficking in the past year.
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Papering over cracks, EU leaders claim summit victory on migration
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders on Friday claimed success in reaching a hard-fought agreement to control immigration but it faced instant criticism as vague, hard to implement and a potential threat to human rights.
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Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in Gaza border protests: Gaza medics
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians, one of them a 14-year-old boy, and wounded 415 others with live fire and tear gas during protests along the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza health officials said.
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