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UPDATE 3-Soccer-Italy beat China 2-0 to continue dream World Cup return
Italy beat China 2-0 to qualify for the quarter-finals of the women's World Cup in convincing fashion on Tuesday as their dream return to the tournament after a 20-year absence continued. Valentina Giacinti and Aurora Galli netted either side of the interval to set up a meeting with the Netherlands
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Teacher who stopped student shooter honored as Carnegie Hero
A high school teacher who subdued a gun-wielding student as he opened fire in the school cafeteria is one of 18 people being honored with Carnegie Medals for heroism. The Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund Commission announced the award winners on Monday. In September 2017, a student told Mattoon
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Pickup driver pleads not guilty in fatal motorcycle crash
A driver for a transport company who has a history of traffic arrests pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven counts of negligent homicide in a collision with a group of motorcyclists on a rural highway. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was ordered to remain in preventive detention, with a judge saying his driving
- Reuters
France's Mirazur crowned world's best restaurant, Denmark's Noma is No. 2
Mirazur, on the French Riviera, was crowned No.1 at the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards ceremony held in Singapore on Tuesday, lauded for its fresh and seasonal cuisine. The three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Menton climbed to the top from third last year, replacing Italy's Osteria Francescana
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Trump loses bid to halt Democratic lawsuit over foreign payments
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to put on hold a lawsuit by about 200 Democratic lawmakers accusing President Donald Trump of violating an anti-corruption provision of the U.S. Constitution with his private business dealings, a move that clears the way for them to seek some of his financial records
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Soccer-Copa America organisers 'satisfied' with use of VAR despite lengthy delays
Copa America organisers CONMEBOL defended the use of video technology at the tournament after revealing VAR stoppages had averaged two minutes 26 seconds per intervention, nearly double the time taken at the 2018 World Cup. The lengthy delays to play owing to VAR has led to whistling from disgruntled
- Associated Press
Federal judges send census question case back to lower court
Federal judges have decided a lower court should be sent back a lawsuit focused on whether a 2020 census question pushed by the Trump administration violates minorities' rights. The Tuesday decision by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals comes a day after U.S. District Judge George Hazel of Maryland
- Reuters
UPDATE 8-US launches economic formula for Middle East peace, Palestinians unhappy
The Trump administration launched a $50 billion economic formula for Israeli-Palestinian peace on Tuesday, saying an investment programme for the Palestinians was a precondition for ending the decades-old conflict. U.S. President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner opened
- Reuters
Sotheby's must face Russian billionaire's lawsuit over art fraud - U.S. judge
A federal judge in New York rejected Sotheby's bid to dismiss a $380 million lawsuit where Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of helping his longtime art dealer's scheme to overcharge him on dozens of masterworks. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said Sotheby'
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Warren has big lead among young progressives, NextGen poll finds
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders have broken out as frontrunners for young voters, according to a new straw poll conducted by the progressive group NextGen, pulling ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Soccer-Real Madrid reveal plans for women's football team
Real Madrid announced they will form a women's team for the first time after purchasing local side CD Tacon, subject to approval by club members. Tacon, who were founded in the Spanish capital in 2014, won promotion to the top flight last season and will continue to operate under their original
- Associated Press
Texas Monthly magazine bought by oil and gas heiress
A billionaire oil and gas heiress has bought Texas Monthly magazine. The Austin-based monthly magazine said Tuesday that its new owner will be Randa Duncan Williams, whose late father founded Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners. Williams chairs the newly formed Houston-based entity Texas Monthly
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Girl Scout, 11, killed by falling tree at Indiana camp
An 11-year-old Girl Scout was fatally injured when a tree suddenly fell on her and three others as they hiked along a gravel road at a southern Indiana campground, authorities said. It was raining when deputies arrived at Camp Koch about 11:30 a.m. Monday but there had been no severe weather or lightning
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Driver with record charged with 7 homicides in biker crash
The driver of a pickup truck in a fiery collision on a rural New Hampshire highway that killed seven motorcyclists was charged Monday with seven counts of negligent homicide, and records show he was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving last month and in 2013. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested
- Reuters
Hyundai dealers to offer customers Lyft rides through CDK app
Hyundai dealers in the United States will offer Lyft Inc rides to customers getting their vehicles serviced at dealerships, the companies said on Tuesday, the latest in a string of partnerships by the ride services company. Dealers who subscribe to Hailer application through CDK Global Inc will be able
- Reuters
France's Mirazur crowned world's best restaurant, Denmark's Noma is No. 2
Mirazur, on the French Riviera, was crowned No.1 at the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards ceremony held in Singapore on Tuesday, lauded for its fresh and seasonal cuisine. The three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Menton climbed to the top from third last year, replacing Italy's Osteria Francescana
- Yahoo News
Prosecutors outline details of congressman’s alleged affairs in campaign finance case
Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), leaves federal court in San Diego, California, U.S. September 24, 2018. Prosecutors alleged in a Monday court filing that Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., used campaign funds to carry out multiple affairs over at least seven years with congressional staffers and lobbyists
- Reuters
Italy's PM meets party leaders on Atlantia concession - sources
Top Italian ministers will meet late on Tuesday to discuss how to deal with motorway operator Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) and its concession, three people familiar with the matter said. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will hold a meeting with Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Industry Minister
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Border Patrol chief resigns as migrant children are sent back to Texas camp
About 100 migrant children who were moved Monday from a detention facility where conditions had been described as “unconscionable” were moved back to the camp on Tuesday as border chief John Sanders announced he was stepping down.
- Reuters
Sotheby's must face Russian billionaire's lawsuit over art fraud -U.S. judge
A federal judge in New York rejected Sotheby's bid to dismiss a $380 million lawsuit where Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of helping his longtime art dealer's scheme to overcharge him on dozens of masterworks. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said Sotheby'
- Associated Press
Ex-priest dies months into imprisonment for raping boys
A former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty last year to raping two boys decades earlier has died just several months into a 20-year prison sentence in South Carolina. Wayland Yoder Brown, 75, died at a hospital June 8 from what appear to be natural causes, South Carolina Corrections Department spokeswoman
- Reuters
Franco-era street names to return to Cordoba as right takes over
Fascist-era street names will be returned to Cordoba, the Spanish city's new rightist administration decided at its first meeting on Tuesday, overturning the left's move to change them. The conservative Peoples' Party which now governs in Cordoba along with the center-right Ciudadanos, said
- Reuters
Trump threatens 'obliteration,' Iran calls White House 'mentally retarded'
Trump on Monday signed an executive order imposing largely symbolic economic sanctions against Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior figures, with punitive measures against Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expected later this week. Iran shot down a U.S. drone last week
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Melania Trump's defender Stephanie Grisham to replace Sanders as WH press secretary
Stephanie Grisham, who has been first lady Melania Trump’s spokesperson since March 2017, will be the next White House press secretary, replacing Sarah Sanders.
- Associated Press
Tribes to get more documents sought in Dakota Access lawsuit
A federal judge has ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to turn over more documents that four Native American tribes say could bolster their lawsuit seeking to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg directed the federal agency to give up the documents
"I want to go out on my own terms. That’s why I want the option of medical aid-in-dying to peacefully end my suffering."
"There is absolutely no oversight in the law to protect the ill person from someone else who wants to hurry their death along."
"Deciding how one wants to end one’s life must be the ultimate human right."
"If we allow this form of euthanasia into our health care system, it will corrode and destroy the values that define the health profession."
“Nowhere in the laws is there any sort of guidance for how to do it."
