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Guard panel in May revealed the ship's captain intended to avoid the brewing storm when he departed, but may have had outdated weather data.
A white man who apparently called police to complain about "hoodlums" near his house was charged with murder after he shot and killed a black man outside, authorities said. The shooting happened early Sunday morning when 39-year-old Chad Cameron Copley fired a shotgun from inside his garage and hit the victim, according to a Raleigh Police Department news release. Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas, 20, suffered a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday pledged to reinvigorate ties after their first meeting since Ankara shot down a Russian warplane last November. Erdogan's visit to Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed coup against him last month that sparked a purge of opponents and cast a shadow over Turkey's relations with the West. "We lived through a very complicated moment in the relations between our states and we very much want, and I feel our Turkish friends want, to overcome the difficulties," Putin told journalists at a joint press conference.

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China easily won its second gold medal in diving at the Rio Olympics, dominating the men's 10-meter synchronized event while showing the rest of the world how to barely make a splash. Chen Aisen and Lin Yue totaled 496.98 points on Monday, cruising to victory by 39.87 points. American teammates David Boudia and Steele Johnson took silver at 457.11.
A young California man was shot dead Saturdayย while he was playing Pokemon Go at a San Francisco tourist hot spot, and his killer is on the loose. Calvin Riley was using the wildly popular app at aboutย 10 p.m. at Fisherman's Wharf when he was apparently shot at random. Nothing was taken from Riley's person, leaving investigators puzzled over a possible motive, the San Francisco Chronicleย reported.
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.

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U.S. District Judge James Zagel said itโs an โunfortunate realityโ that Blagojevichโs innocent family members are made to suffer the consequences. Blagojevich, known as Inmate No. 40892-424 since he went to prison in 2012, appeared on a courtroom video in prison-issued clothing, his once dark hair now white. Federal prosecutors said the dismissal of the five counts doesnโt reduce the seriousness of Blagojevichโs offenses and argued the sentence shouldnโt be reduced.
A Chinese tourist got tangled up in the red tape of Germany's migrant influx by mistake and was stuck in a refugee home for nearly two weeks, the Red Cross said on Monday. Officials thought the 31-year-old backpacker, who spoke neither German nor English, "needed help" after landing in Stuttgart airport in southwestern Germany on July 4, Christoph Schluetermann of the German Red Cross told AFP. The man, who had lost his wallet, was taken to a reception centre in the nearby town of Heidelberg, where he unwittingly filled out an asylum request form, following the local authorities' instructions, Schluetermann said.
Kentucky police are searching for a man who set fire to a business on Sunday.

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