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Full Kelly Interview: ‘Every Single Day’ Terrorists Are Plotting Against U.S.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly joins Meet the Press to talk about reports that White House Adviser Jared Kushner tried to set up a secret Russia backchannel, and why he believes intelligence leaks are “darn close to treason.”
WorldReutersEgypt launches air raids in Libya after Christians killed
By Ahmed Aboulenein MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian fighter jets carried out strikes on Friday directed at camps in Libya which Cairo says have been training militants who killed dozens of Christians earlier in the day. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he had ordered strikes against what he called terrorist camps, declaring in a televised address that states that sponsored terrorism would be punished. Egyptian military sources said six strikes took place near Derna in eastern Libya at around sundown, hours after masked gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians travelling to a monastery in southern Egypt, killing 29 and wounding 24.
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Greg Allman, Founder of the Allman Brothers Band, Dies at 69
The legendary Southern rocker who composed countless hits as frontman for The Allman Brothers Band and battled a very public addiction with drugs died Saturday at his home. He was 69.
NewsAFPJudge tosses life terms for 'Washington sniper'
A judge Friday threw out the life terms for a man sentenced as a teenager for his role in a deadly three-week shooting spree in 2002 that terrorized the Washington area. US District Judge Raymond Jackson in Virginia ruled that Lee Boyd Malvo deserved another sentencing hearing because the US Supreme Court has ruled that mandatory life sentences for minors are unconstitutional. Malvo was serving two life sentences on two counts of capital murder in Virginia.
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Soccer, West Point graduation, Kashmiri protests and more — it happened today: May 27 in pictures
Tomas Rogic celebrates scoring Celtic’s second goal against Aberdeen to go on to win the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland; graduates of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., toss their hats into the air at the conclusion
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Young Boy Thrown Off Slide At Dublin's New Water Park
A new $45 million water park in Dublin, California, called “The Wave” opened its doors, Saturday, to a terrible start as one of the very first riders of its “Emerald Plunge” waterslide was flung off its edge and landed on solid concrete. A small wall of water cakes the ground near the bottom of both the slides where the riders come sliding down at break-neck speeds.
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ‘refuses to hold Ramadan event’ in break with tradition
Donald Trump’s Secretary of State has refused to host an event to mark Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, seemingly breaking with a long bipartisan tradition. Since 1999, Republican and Democratic secretaries of state have nearly always hosted either the reception or an iftar dinner to break the day’s fast during Ramadan. Mr Tillerson turned down a request from the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs to host the Eid reception, two unnamed US officials said.
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Cuomo won't march in Puerto Rican parade, doesn't say why
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that he is not marching in next month's Puerto Rican Day Parade but he did not directly address the controversy surrounding parade organizers' decision to honor a Puerto Rican nationalist. A spokeswoman for Cuomo said the Democratic governor would not march in the June 11 parade in Manhattan. "The governor's support and long-term affection for the Puerto Rican community remains unwavering, unfortunately he will not be marching in this year's parade," the spokeswoman, Dani Lever, said in a statement.
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3-Week-Old Dies in Dog Attack After Being Left Alone With Family's Three Pit Bulls
A 3-week-old was killed after one of her family’s three pit bulls attacked the baby girl while she was unattended with the dogs, according to reports. Susannah Jean Murray was left alone in a bouncy for five minutes inside of her Michigan home when one
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For Siemens and Other Companies, Apprentice Programs
When Siemens wanted to find U.S. workers to build gas turbines, only 15 percent of those who applied had the skills needed.
WorldReutersEgypt launches air raids on Libya after Christians killed
By Ahmed Aboulenein MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian fighter jets carried out strikes on Friday directed at camps in Libya which Cairo says have been training militants who killed dozens of Christians earlier in the day. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he had ordered strikes against what he called terrorist camps, declaring in a televised address that states that sponsored terrorism would be punished. Egyptian military sources said six strikes took place near Derna in eastern Libya at around sundown, hours after masked gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians traveling to a monastery in southern Egypt, killing 29 and wounding 24.
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President Trump returns from first foreign trip to new questions about Russia
ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports on the new revelations that Jared Kushner asked a Russian envoy for back channel communications about Syria and other policy matters.
LifestyleAFPRamadan in Libya: little cash and too much violence
The holy Muslim month of Ramadan began Saturday with a bitter taste for residents of Libya's capital, as a cash shortage bites, prices rise and deadly clashes returned to Tripoli. During Ramadan, Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn to dusk. Prices have multiplied by three or four times this year in Libya, including at Tomzini which is famed for its fresh spices.
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Full Interview: Mitch Landrieu On Removing Confederate Monuments
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu discusses his decision to remove Confederate monuments from the city in an exclusive interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd.
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Men Stabbed To Death By Man Spewing Hate Speech At Women Identified By Police: 'He Was a Hero'
Ricky John Best, 53, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23, of Portland were both killed in Friday’s attack. Both men’s throats were cut, according to police. The third victim injured in the attack has been identified as Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21.
WorldReutersAustralian drug convict Schapelle Corby returns home from Bali
By Harry Pearl SYDNEY (Reuters) - Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby arrived in Australia on Sunday after completing a twelve-and-a-half-year sentence for smuggling marijuana to Indonesia, a case which received huge media attention and soured ties between the two countries. Corby landed at Brisbane International Airport with her sister Mercedes Corby and a bodyguard just after 5 a.m., Australian media reported. “It is with gratefulness and relief we mark Schapelle Corby’s return to Australia,” she said, reading from a statement.
NewsAssociated PressPilot's remains back on US soil from Vietnam after 52 years
Deborah Crosby touched her father's flag-draped casket as her three brothers hugged her in a tearful embrace on the tarmac at the San Diego airport Friday — ending a more than half century search to find and bring home the remains of Lt. Cmdr. Frederick P. Crosby, shot down as a Navy pilot in the Vietnam War. Deborah Crosby, now 58, was only six when she was sent home from the first grade to learn her father was presumed dead, though his body had not been found. Crosby and her grandmother made a pact to someday bring home her father's remains and bury him in his hometown of San Diego.
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Portland stabbings: Police admit attacker could be ‘domestic terrorist’
Portland police have said the man accused of stabbing three men who tried to protect Muslim women from his racist slurs on a train could be a “domestic terrorist”. Jeremy Christian, 35, will appear in court this week for slitting the throats of two men and stabbing a third after he verbally attacked two women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. “It’s too early to say whether last night’s violence was an act of domestic terrorism or a federal hate crime,” Renn Cannon, the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Portland, said.
NewsAssociated PressMortuary chief: John Glenn's remains weren't disrespected
"He was not disrespected in any way, shape or form," William Zwicharowski told The Associated Press on Friday. Zwicharowski said he's proud of the job he and his staff did in caring for Glenn's remains during the months between his death last December and his burial at Arlington National Cemetery in April. Air Force officials are investigating concerns raised about management of the mortuary and allegations that inspectors who visited the facility this spring were invited to look at Glenn's remains, which they declined to do.
PoliticsReutersTrump tells 'confidants' U.S. will leave Paris climate deal: Axios
U.S. President Donald Trump has told "confidants," including the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave a landmark international agreement on climate change, Axios news outlet reported on Saturday, citing three sources with direct knowledge. On Saturday, Trump said in a Twitter post he would make a decision on whether to support the Paris climate deal next week.
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Jared Kushner’s Growing Stench of Treason
It’s time to talk about treason. We now know, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports cited by the Washington Post, that in early December 2016 Jared Kushner and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak “discussed the possibility of setting
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Anti-jihadist Ramadan advert goes viral
A video advertisement that depicts a would-be suicide bomber confronted by the faithful has gone viral two days into the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. During that time, believers abstain from eating, drinking -- even of water -- smoking and sexual relations between sunrise and sunset.
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Student Loan Debt In The US Is So High That Many Aren't Even Paying It
Among 2016 graduates who took on student loans, the average student debt load is more than $37,000, up 6% from the previous year. All told, more than 44 million Americans carry student debt to the collective tune of $1.4 trillion. A new report from progressive think tank Demos found that almost 40% of student loan borrowers are either in default or more than 90 days late on their payments.
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American Airlines Passenger Opened Door and Jumped Off Moving Plane
An airline passenger was arrested Thursday after he opened the plane's galley door as it was taxiing and jumped onto the tarmac at a North Carolina airport, authorities said.
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Texas toddler deaths: Two young children found dead ‘after being locked inside hot car’
Two toddlers were found dead in a locked vehicle on Friday in Parker County, Texas. Temperatures had hit 96F (35C) when the mother of the children, a two-year-old girl and a 16-month-old boy, says she found them locked inside her car, according to a news release from the local sheriff’s office. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s website identifies the two children as Juliet and Cavanaugh Ramirez – and says the cause of their deaths is still pending.
