Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, May 28, 2016, in Santa Maria, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)It was well past lunch on a highway in California near the start of Memorial Day weekend, and the

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Tacticlight 360Eight children and three adults were struck by lightning Saturday in a Paris park after a sudden spring storm sent a bolt crashing down upon a children's birthday party, a spokesman for Paris' fire service said. Another group of people at a children's soccer match in western Germany were also hit by lightning Saturday afternoon, leaving three adults seriously injured. The birthday group had sought shelter under a tree at Park Monceau, a northwest Paris park popular with well-to-do families, when a lightning bolt touched down, according to Paris fire service spokesman Eric Moulin.
Thieves dug a series of small pits looking for artifacts from the Union Army's nine-month blockade of Richmond and the neighboring city of Petersburg, targeting a field where more than 1,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died, the agency said. The looters were likely to have found uniform buttons, buckles, bullets and other small metal objects that are difficult to trace, Chris Bryce, chief of interpretation and visitor services at the battlefield, told Reuters on Saturday. "This kind of aberrant behavior is always disgusting but it is particularly egregious as Memorial Day weekend arrives, a time when we honor the memories of our friends and family," said Lewis Rogers, superintendent of Petersburg National Battlefield, in the statement posted on Friday.
Seventeen people died when an unlicenced home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, a fresh tragedy to shake the conflict-riven country. The fire tore through the two-storey building for the elderly in the village of Litochky, located some 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Kiev. "The bodies of 17 people have been found at the site of the fire," the head of Ukraine's state emergencies service, Mykola Chechotkin, told reporters.

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As the nation celebrates Memorial Day weekend, Chicago braces for what some are predicting will be a violent summer, punctuated by extreme tensions between police and the communities they serve. Now, the agency that investigates allegations of police misconduct in Chicago is planning to release, possibly on June 2, reports and evidence, including audio and video from dashboard cameras and body cameras, plus dispatch calls and 911 calls, from about 100 cases of police shootings and other incidents, according to a memo obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. The Independent Police Review Authority, the agency releasing the evidence, investigates cases in which Chicago police officers fire a gun or stun gun that could hit someone, or incidents where a person dies or is seriously injured in custody, reports The Washington Post.
It started with Mexicans being publicly compared by presidential candidate Donald Trump to criminals and rapists. In San Diego on Friday, protesters waved Mexican flags, shouted obscenities and clashed with police outside a Trump rally while inside, Trump made derisive comments about Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge who is hearing a class-action lawsuit against one of Trump's business ventures, noting that Curiel is Mexican American as he called the judge a "hater" who had "railroaded" him. On Tuesday, protesters in New Mexico opposing Trump threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, injuring several, and toppled trash cans and barricades.

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Vom FachmannThe actor and veterans' advocate talks about his foundation's work and previews the National Memorial Day Parade on "This Week."
German airline Lufthansa said Sunday it will suspend flights to Venezuela from next month owing to the economic crisis in the country. "We have decided to suspend the service between Frankfurt and Caracas for the time being as from June 17," a company spokesman told AFP. The service, three times a week, was Lufthansa's only flight between Germany and Venezuela, he said, adding that it was not clear at this point when it would be resumed.
The U.S. missile shield to be located in Poland does not pose a threat to Russia's security, Poland's state-run news agency PAP quoted Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski as saying on Sunday. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Poland and Romania could find themselves in the sights of Russian rockets because they are hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield that Moscow considers a threat to its security. "President Putin should know very well that the anti-missile shield in Poland has no relevance to Russian security.