| DOJ Watchdog Finds James Comey Broke FBI Rules In Clinton Case, Report Says Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that
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| Arizona Lawmaker: Immigration A 'Threat' Because 'There Aren't Enough White Kids' Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:20 AM PDT  An Arizona state lawmaker faces backlash after claiming immigration represents
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| US citizen detained during violent Vietnam protests Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:06 AM PDT  The US has urged the Vietnamese authorities to release one of its citizens who was among dozens of people arrested during violent protests last week. Will Nguyen, 32, a Yale graduate who comes from Houston, Texas, was visiting Ho Chi Minh City, en route from the US to Singapore, where he was due to graduate from a master's programme in July. According to a statement released on Thursday on behalf of Mr Nguyen's family and friends, he was "beaten over the head and dragged into a police truck" after joining a rare demonstration on June 9 against proposed special economic zones that have raised fears of Chinese encroachment. A video linked to the statement allegedly shows Mr Nguyen being dragged along the street with blood streaming from his face. He is later shown standing on the back of a police pickup truck. This is #democracy in #Vietnampic.twitter.com/j2hb76QZwO— Will Nguyen (阮英惟） (@will_nguyen_) June 10, 2018 Vietnam's Communist government bans anti-government protests and public gatherings must be approved by the authorities. However, demonstrations erupted over the weekend over planned special economic zones that would give leases to foreign investors with less red tape, stoking fears that national security would be undermined by giving China control over Vietnamese territory. Before he was arrested, Mr Nguyen was live-tweeting from the protest, revealing that events had taken a nasty turn after police had allegedly struck a man, who was seen in lying motionless on the ground. The statement released on Thursday said that he had been taken to a police station and accused of "causing a scene and destroying public property." Police struck a protestor and chaos has broken out pic.twitter.com/XMf5x6lEwb— Will Nguyen (阮英惟） (@will_nguyen_) June 10, 2018 It said the authorities had confiscated his laptop, passport and credit cards from the AirBnB property where he had been lodging, and that he had been falsely accused of being a member of the reform-focussed Viet Tan political party, which is banned in Vietnam. This was "not plausible" said the statement. "The diplomatic protocol is that the Vietnamese have 48 hours in which to notify the US embassy that one of its citizens has been detained, but this has not been adhered to in the current situation," it alleged. "The state of his health and his whereabouts are currently unknown." Pope Thrower, a US embassy spokesman told the New York Times that the embassy was "aware of media reports that a US citizen was arrested." He added: "When a US citizen is detained overseas, the US Department of State works to provide all appropriate consular assistance."
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| Riders plunge 34 feet, 6 injured in roller coaster derail Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:47 PM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A roller coaster that derailed in Florida had been put out of service by state inspectors twice in the past year and a half because of problems with the ride.
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| Harvard rated Asian American applicants lower on personality scores than other students, study finds Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:49 PM PDT  Harvard admissions officers consistently rated Asian American students lower on "personal qualities" than students of other races, according to admissions data analysed as part of a racial discrimination lawsuit against the prestigious university. A study of 20 years' worth of admissions data shows Asian American applicants to Harvard scored much better than all other racial groups on measures of academic merit, but worse on subjective analyses of their personal qualities completed by Harvard admissions staff. In fact, the study found Asian Americans had the lowest admission rate of any racial group between 2000 and 2019, despite having higher test scores than every other racial group over the two-decade period.
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| Pakistani Taliban leader killed in air strike in Afghanistan near border Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:08 PM PDT  By Rupam Jain and Jibran Ahmad KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a U.S.-Afghan air strike in Afghanistan, a senior Afghan Defence Ministry official said on Friday, a killing likely to ease tension between the United States and Pakistan. An official at the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan confirmed Fazlullah was killed on Thursday. The U.S. military said earlier in Washington it had carried out a strike aimed at a senior militant figure in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, which is on the Pakistani border, and one U.S. official said the target was believed to have been Fazlullah.
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| Sessions takes on microaggressions. He’s right. Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT  The Justice Department exists to enforce constitutional protections — none more than the right to free expression. And too many college presidents seem to have forgotten that they exist to teach students the value (and sometimes the cost) of those protections.
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| Arizona Officers Seen Beating and Mocking Hospitalized Suspect on Video Posted: 14 Jun 2018 06:46 PM PDT  Suspect Jose Luis Conde said doctors had to sew part of his ear back on
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| Everything You Need To Know About The DOJ Report On The Clinton Investigation Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:20 AM PDT  (Get this roundup directly in your inbox each weekday ― sign up for The
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| 'Delta Hill Riders': African-American cowboy culture in the Mississippi Delta Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:04 AM PDT !['Delta Hill Riders': African-American cowboy culture in the Mississippi Delta]( "'Delta Hill Riders': African-American cowboy culture in the Mississippi Delta") Rory Doyle's ongoing personal project shares the story of African-American cowboy culture in the rural Mississippi Delta, challenging the Hollywood portrayal of the American cowboy. An exhibition opening and talk for "Delta Hill Riders" by Rory Doyle is on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 7 p.m. at the Half King Photography Series in New York City. It will be led by Anna Van Lenten, curator of the Half King Photography Series. The exhibition will run until Aug. 6. A concurrent show at Tikhonova Gallery in Harlem will have an opening reception Sunday, June 17, 2018, from 2 to 5 p.m. with an artist talk at 4 p.m. and runs through July 29, 2018.
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| Boy Killed, His Brother and Mom in Critical Condition After Denver Shooting Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:57 PM PDT  One boy died and his brother and mom were in critical condition Thursday following a shooting in a suburban Denver parking lot, according to police.
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| 'The Daily Show's' Ronny Chieng 'Joins' Kim Jong Un's Jogging Bodyguards Posted: 14 Jun 2018 09:29 AM PDT  Looks like there's a new member of Kim Jong Un's pack of jogging bodyguards.
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| Zachary Cruz, Brother of Parkland Shooting Suspect, Launches Anti-Bullying Initiative Posted: 14 Jun 2018 12:50 PM PDT  Cruz's brother is accused of killing 17 people on Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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| The Latest: Advocates: ICE not giving immigrant enough time Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:59 PM PDT  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Latest on the planned deportation of a Connecticut man with renal failure (all times local):
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| Air strikes target Yemen rebel positions in port offensive Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:12 AM PDT  Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition targeted areas around Yemen's rebel-held port of Hodeida on Thursday, the insurgents said, as an offensive to retake the vital aid gateway entered its second day. Hodeida remained open and processing ships despite the offensive, port authorities said. The Iran-backed Huthi rebels who control the Red Sea port city -- home to 600,000 people -- reported "two enemy air strikes on the (Hodeida) area" via their news outlet Al-Masirah.
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| Stephen Colbert Offers A Scathing Takedown Of Trump's Cruel Immigration Policy Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:03 PM PDT  > The United States is using cruelty as a deterrent on our southern border.
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| Justice Department watchdog: Comey deviated from FBI norms but no bias Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:39 AM PDT  Former FBI Director James Comey deviated from bureau norms but there was no evidence his actions before the 2016 presidential election were motivated by political bias, the Justice Department watchdog said on Thursday, Bloomberg News reported. "While we did not find that these decisions were the result of political bias on Comey's part, we nevertheless concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice," Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in the report's conclusions, which were obtained by Bloomberg.
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| 'Like Dominoes.' Brushfire Destroys Homes in Utah Tourist Town as Wildfires Menace U.S. West Posted: 13 Jun 2018 07:17 PM PDT  More than 3,000 people in Colorado and Wyoming have fled multiple wildfires
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:33 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| The Boring Company tunnels given green light for line to Chicago's O'Hare airport Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:00 AM PDT  The Boring Company has plans to invade Chicago's O'Hare airport. The Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) announced on Thursday that it has chosen The Boring Company to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain a high-speed rail line called the Chicago Express Loop from downtown to the O'Hare airport. Without providing a specific timeline, the Boring Company said it will take over the unfinished Block 37 superstation in the city, which the company said is an "amazing facility," according to the Chicago Sun Times.
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| Pressure grows on Merkel to tighten refugee policies Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:47 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Pressure grew on Chancellor Angela Merkel from the right wing of her conservative bloc Thursday to tighten Germany's refugee policies and allow some migrants to be turned away at the borders. It was a major challenge to her authority, echoing wider European disagreements on how to deal with the huge numbers of asylum-seekers.
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| Rudy Giuliani Says Mueller Probe Must Be Suspended 'Tomorrow' After DOJ Report Posted: 14 Jun 2018 09:50 PM PDT  Rudy Giuliani on Thursday demanded that special counsel Robert Mueller end his
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| Disgraced comedian Cosby changes lawyer ahead of sentencing Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:35 PM PDT  Disgraced US comedian Bill Cosby, who was convicted of sexual assault in April, has changed his lawyer ahead of his sentencing, a spokesman said Thursday. "Mr. Cosby has replaced his legal team with Attorney Joseph P. Green Jr (Philadelphia)," a spokesman for Cosby said, without offering further details. Green will replace Tom Mesereau, who has represented numerous celebrities and was Cosby's lawyer for his second trial which resulted in his conviction on three counts of sexual assault on April 26.
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| Boris Becker declares he is an African diplomat to bring 'bankruptcy farce' to an end Posted: 14 Jun 2018 12:47 PM PDT  Boris Becker has declared he is a diplomat for a small African country, as he attacked "unnaccountable bankers and bureaucrats" who are chasing him for money. The three times Wimbledon tennis champion was declared bankrupt last summer and earlier this year launched an appeal to find his missing trophies to try to pay off £54million-worth of debts. Now his lawyers have told the High Court that he quietly became a "sporting, cultural and humanitarian affairs" attaché for the Central African Republic on April 27 this year. The German is due to be one of the BBC's commentators when the Wimbledon tennis championships start in a fortnight's time. A defiant Becker said he was "immensely proud" of his new role – and attacked the "bunch of anonymous and unaccountable bankers and bureaucrats" who are chasing him for money. He said he had "asserted diplomatic immunity as I am in fact bound to do, in order to bring this farce to an end, so that I can start to rebuild my life". According to the 1961 Vienna Convention, this means that he cannot be subject to legal process in the courts of any country for so long as he remains a recognised diplomatic agent. Boris, Wimbledon champion at 17, is now being chased for huge debts He now cannot be sued for the cash without the consent of the Central African Republic, while legal claims can only be served on him through diplomatic channels. Any legal action would also require the agreement of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as well as the Central African Republic's foreign minister. Becker's decision to become a diplomat could mean that none of the money he is expected to receive for commentating for the BBC at Wimbledon will go to his creditors. Experts said that anyone could become a foreign diplomat in this way if invited to do so by the country, and assert diplomatic immunity. Becker said in a statement: "A bunch of anonymous and unaccountable bankers and bureaucrats pushed me into a completely unnecessary declaration of bankruptcy, which has inflicted a whole heap of damage on me, both commercially and professionally, and on those close to me. "I have now asserted diplomatic immunity as I am in fact bound to do, in order to bring this farce to an end, so that I can start to rebuild my life. "Once this gravy train for the suits has been stopped in its tracks, my lawyers will turn to the question of compensation. "I will be coming after the people who forced this process through to hold them publicly accountable for their actions." Becker said he was "immensely proud of my appointment at the Sports and Culture Attache for the Central African Republic. "Sport is incredibly important in Africa and is fast becoming a universal language, a form of social diplomacy and a leveler between people from vastly different and unequal social backgrounds around the world. "My diplomatic role in the Central African Republic allows me to give something meaningful back to sports supporters in one of the poorest parts of the world. "There is no reason why a role of this kind should be treated any differently to an appointment as a military or a trade attache, which everyone recognises as attracting diplomatic immunity." Becker has hired Ben Emmerson QC, a leading human rights lawyer who has acted in the past for Wikileaks Julian Assange, to handle his claim for diplomatic immunity. Trials and triumphs | Boris Becker Mr Emmerson is a former United Nations Special Rapporteur and currently sits as a judge on several U.N. International Tribunals. In May Becker split from his wife of nine years. The German former tennis star and Dutch model Lilly, 41, took what "wasn't an easy decision", their lawyer said, having this year revealed the strain his financial problems were having on their marriage. The BBC did not comment. A spokesman for one of his creditors Arbuthnot, Latham & Co declined to comment. Becker won his first Wimbledon title, aged 17, in 1985. Two more Wimbledon titles followed in 1986 and 1989, as well a US Open in 1989 and the Australian Open in 1991 and 1996. During bankruptcy proceedings in London last June, John Briggs, Mr Becker's lawyer, told the court: "He is not a sophisticated individual when it comes to finances." His bankruptcy followed a run of bad luck, including £20million in divorce and paternity settlements to his first wife, Barbara, and Angela Ermakova, a Russian model, and a two-year suspended sentence for tax evasion. There were also claims in Germany's Spiegel magazine that Becker may have lost his £100million fortune in part because of questionable investments in the Nigerian oil industry. Becker did not comment on these claims at the time. Experts told the Telegraph that anyone could become a foreign diplomat in this way if invited to do so by the country, and assert diplomatic immunity.
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| Turtle Gives Finger To Louisiana Police Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:06 PM PDT  COVINGTON, La. ― A fisherman here made a bizarre discovery when he found what
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| U.S. returns stolen 525-year-old Columbus letter to Vatican Posted: 14 Jun 2018 06:55 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A 525-year-old copy of a letter by Christopher Columbus that was stolen from the Vatican was returned on Thursday after joint sleuthing by U.S. Homeland Security agents and Holy See antiquity experts. "We are returning it to its rightful owner," said U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Callista Gingrich, at a handover ceremony in a frescoed room of the Vatican Library, which houses tens of thousands of rare, historic items. One of the Latin letters, printed in Rome by Stephan Plannack in 1493, found its way into the Vatican Library.
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| 911 Call Released From Moments After 12-Foot Alligator Dragged Shizuka Matsuki to Her Death Posted: 15 Jun 2018 05:35 AM PDT  "I think an alligator got this lady."
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| UN Assembly blames Israel for Gaza violence, but not Hamas Posted: 13 Jun 2018 05:55 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly approved a Palestinian-backed resolution Wednesday blaming Israel for violence in Gaza and deploring its "excessive use of force," after narrowly rejecting a U.S. demand to add a condemnation of attacks on Israel by Gaza's Hamas rulers.
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| New book details the inside story of Obama's birth certificate and the birth of fake news Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:09 PM PDT  A new book by a former senior adviser to Barack Obama gives an account of the behind-the-scenes the drama surrounding the release of the president's birth certificate — and the response to the so-called birther movement championed by Donald Trump.
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| Four Dead as Violence Mars Election Campaigning in Turkey Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:02 PM PDT  Anticipation and anxieties around the election have mounted as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces a close race
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| DNA leads to breakthrough in grisly French cold case Posted: 14 Jun 2018 06:52 AM PDT  Police investigating a three-decade-old murder that mystified France said Thursday they had finally identified a four-year-old girl whose mutilated body was found by a motorway and arrested her parents on suspicion of killing her. The little girl's body, bearing the signs of horrific abuse including burns from an iron and human bite marks, was found in August 1987 in a ditch alongside the A10 motorway in central France. The grisly murder sparked what was France's biggest ever investigation at the time, with the girl's photograph posted in public places and an alert sent to more than 30 countries, but it was declared unsolved in 1997.
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| What You Need to Know About Salmonella in Melon Posted: 15 Jun 2018 05:22 PM PDT  Update: On June 15, 2018, Consumer Reports advised consumers to avoid eating precut melon sold in stores across the U.S., after the FDA announced that the recall was expanded from nine to 22 stat...
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| Nick Jonas And Priyanka Chopra's Styles Over The Years, Side By Side Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Ever since Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra hit the red carpet at the 2017 Met
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| Saudi women in Russia to support team, reinforce new image Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:49 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — In jeans, headscarves and veils, dozens of Saudi women draped in their country's green flag and sporting matching face paint streamed into Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium on Thursday to support their national team against Russia in the World Cup's opening match.
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| A Look Inside Casa Padre, a Converted Walmart Now Home to Nearly 1,500 Immigrant Children Posted: 14 Jun 2018 01:42 PM PDT  Video provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday offered a glimpse at life inside Casa Padre, a former Walmart along the Mexican border that has been home to nearly 1,500 immigrant children for more than a year.
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| Rep. Steve King Says He Didn't Realize He Retweeted A Nazi Propagandist Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:46 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) said Thursday he didn't realize
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| White House Says Trump Would Sign House GOP's Immigration 'Compromise' After All Posted: 14 Jun 2018 05:47 PM PDT  President Donald Trump threw House Republicans' immigration compromise into
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| Supreme Court throws out Minnesota ban on voter political apparel Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:50 AM PDT  States cannot impose a blanket prohibition on apparel such as T-shirts and buttons bearing political messages in polling sites, the U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday in an important free speech ruling striking down a Minnesota law as unconstitutional. The court ruled 7-2 that Minnesota's law, which dates back to 1912 and was intended to maintain decorum at polling sites, went too far in banning voters from wearing political apparel - without even defining what is meant by "political." But the justices left room for states to craft some sort of limits on what should be allowed in polling places and what should not.
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| Prevention key to dealing with spike in suicide rate Posted: 13 Jun 2018 10:15 PM PDT  The recent deaths of fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have cast a spotlight on a jarring spike in suicides worldwide and on the importance of confronting the issue. More than 800,000 commit suicide annually around the world and suicide is listed as the second highest cause of death among people between the ages of 15 and 29, according to the World Health Organization. "It is difficult to explain, but this may be due in part to the opioid epidemic and economic factors that may have a stronger impact in the US than other developed countries because we do not have as comprehensive a protective health and social safety net as most European countries," said David Brent, a psychiatry professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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| UK PM May will announce relaxed rules for non-EU doctors and nurses: spokesman Posted: 14 Jun 2018 03:30 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will announce the relaxation of immigration rules to allow more doctors and nurses from outside the European Union to work for the National Health Service (NHS), May's spokesman said on Thursday. "The PM will in due course be setting out our long-term plan for the National Health Service, an important part of that is making sure that the NHS has more highly skilled doctors and nurses to deliver outstanding patient care," the spokesman told reporters. ...
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