A former CIA case officer who has served as top policy aide to House Republicans is launching an independent campaign for the presidency on Monday with the backing of veteranย GOPย strategists and donors determined to block Donald Trump fromย getting anywhere near the White House. Feeding off mounting discontent within GOP ranks over Trump, Evan McMullin โ who is resigning todayย as chief policy director for the House Republican Conference โ announced his campaign with an open โLetter to Americaโ that took pointed shots at both the GOP nominee and Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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The data recorder from the cargo ship El Faro, which sank near the Bahamas during a Caribbean hurricane last October, has been recovered, offering possible answers about why the vessel went down, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday. A U.S. Coast Guard panel in May revealed the ship's captain intended to avoid the brewing storm when he departed, but may have had outdated weather data.
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department acknowledged Tuesday that a deputy shot and killed a black man who was mistakenly identified as a suspect in a carjacking, again bringing into question the appropriateness of a police agency's use of deadly force. Donnell Thompson, 27, was shot at close range by a deputy riding in the turret of an armored vehicle, one of two dispatched as officers searched for suspects in Compton after a car chase and shootout. Police said the shooting occurred after Thompson ignored their commands and charged at them.
Earlier this summer, Turkey was besieged by an attempted military coup. Government officials believed the so-called Gรผlen Movement (also known as โFETรโ) was behind the insurrection, headed by their enigmatic leader, Fethullah Gรผlen, whoโs been living in self-imposed exile in the United States for more than two decades. It bears mentioning that Fethullah Gรผlen operates approximately 150 privately-run, publicly-funded schools in the U.S. (and numerous others around the world), all of which adhere to statewide standards of education.

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Saudi-led coalition warplanes have resumed air strikes on Yemen's capital for the first time in three months, killing 14 people Tuesday and shutting the airport after UN-brokered talks were suspended. The coalition intervened in March last year after Shiite Huthi rebels and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh overran Sanaa the previous September. Hadi is now based in Riyadh, as are members of his internationally recognised government who travel between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's temporary capital Aden in the south.
The 71-year-old woman had visited her daughter, who operates a horse boarding and riding center in King County, Washington, the report said. The report is published in the Aug. 5 issue of the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Were you hoping Donald Trump was watching? โWho?โ Ibtihaj Muhammad, the American fencer who had just lost to Cecilia Berder, of France, in the round of 16 at the womenโs individual saber event in Rio, coyly replied with a smile. The other members of Team USA nearly voted her to carry the opening ceremonies flag โ she trailed only Michael Phelps.

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The mother of a skydiver who plummeted to his death with an instructor in a California vineyard said her teenage son was an adventurous spirit who was willing to try just about anything โ including the jump that was on his bucket list of things to do in life. Tyler Turner, 18, had a mild case of cerebral palsy and walked with a crouched gait. Tyler Turner had graduated from high school with honors and had been bound for the University of California at Merced this month to study biomedical engineering.
President Barack Obamaโs seventh and final summer vacation at Marthaโs Vineyard has begun with hopes of getting in some relaxing time with the first family before the busy fall leading up to Novemberโs presidential election. Obama will fill the next two weeks with leisurely rounds of golf, beach outings, bike rides and hikes with his wife and daughters, and dinner with Mrs. Obama and their friends at some of the islandโs top restaurants. Congress is also on an extended summer break from Washington, something the White House has chided it for as the nation deals with the Zika virus making its way to Florida.
South Korea reproached claims by China that its decision to deploy a missile defense system on the Korean peninsula will destabilize the region, as tensions between the Asian powers have risen over the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) unit. President Park Geun-hye of South Korea said Sunday that the blame Beijing assigned to it in an editorial in the Chinese-run Peopleโs Daily on Wednesday was โout of place.โ The statement from Ms. Parkโs office instead put the onus on Beijing, which she said has not curbed North Korea enough.

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