Cory Booker will exit presidential race if $1.7m not raised by end of month

Cory Booker could be the next Democrat to drop out of the race for the presidential nomination. In a “now-or-never” memo to supporters and staff, campaign manager Addisu Demissie said Booker need to raise $1.7m by the end of the month or he would have to drop out of the race. The next 10 days will determine whether Cory Booker can stay in this race.

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  Cory Booker sends memo to staff saying his presidential campaign may be ending soon

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  Democrat Cory Booker’s struggling White House bid doomed ‘without immediate fundraising surge’

  The Independent

The Latest: Man suspected of shooting Chicago cop captured

The Latest on the nonfatal shooting of a Chicago police officer (all times local): 4:40 p.m. Chicago police say a man believed to be the suspect in the shooting and wounding of an officer has been shot and captured. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi (goo-lee-EHL'-mee) tweeted Saturday that officers apprehended a "person of interest" believed to be 45-year-old Michael Blackman following an armed encounter with officers and a daylong manhunt.

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  Police: Suspect in cop shooting, bike attack captured

  Associated Press
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  Suspect in custody, Chicago police officer recovering after Saturday shooting

  WLS – Chicago

The Amex Business Platinum perks are so good it makes me want to start my own company

BGR has partnered with The Points Guy for our coverage of credit card products. How are these brand new Hilton Amex offers even profitable for the companies at this point? One of our favorite rewards credit cards for ordinary consumers is The Platinum Card® from American Express, which combines a big up-front welcome offer of 60,000 points (after using the card to spend $5,000 in your first three months) with a ton of luxe perks.

Emmys 2019: Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner laughed at for calling themselves 'real people' onstage: 'Savage'

Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner's appearance at the 2019 Emmy Awards didn't exactly go according to plan. The reality star sisters took the stage during the 71st annual ceremony on Sunday night to present the the award for Outstanding Competition Series to "RuPaul's Drag Race," and their introduction was slightly interrupted by an unplanned laughing fit from the audience. Kim and Kendall walked out onto the stage to Sister Sledge's hit, "We Are Family," before the KKW Beauty founder started their introduction of the category.

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  Kendall Jenner's surprising turtleneck gown divides the internet

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  Worst dressed at the Emmys: Kendall Jenner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Karamo Brown top the list

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Israel Could Not Survive Hamas' Missiles Without The Iron Dome

Key point: Israeli missile defense technology is cutting edge. On July 15th, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced it was deploying more Iron Dome missile defense systems near Tel Aviv and other parts of southern Israel. The Iron Dome is Israel's most effective defense system against short-range projectiles.

'She was drunk:' Bus driver facing DUI charges after child calls 911 to report her

A bus driver in Washington is facing charges of driving under the influence and reckless endangerment after a young passenger called 911 to report that she was intoxicated. Catherine Maccarone, 48, was arrested after a child who had just gotten off the bus told police her breath smelled of alcohol, according to audio from the 911 call obtained by several media outlets. The caller told dispatchers he'd tried to get his friends to get off the bus with him but Maccarone wouldn't let them.

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  Newly released 911 call from a student claiming his bus driver was drunk

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  Washington state bus driver arrested after child calls 911 to report her 'drunk'

  KGO – San Francisco

Warren leads Biden for first time in a US primary race: poll

Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has overtaken former vice president Joe Biden in the key state of Iowa for the first time in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, a new poll out Sunday showed. The Des Moines Register/CNN poll had Warren with 22 percent of the vote among likely participants in the Iowa caucuses, compared to 20 percent for Biden and 11 percent for Bernie Sanders. Biden had until now has been the dominant frontrunner in the crowded Democratic field, but the survey showed a surge in favor Warren in the state that votes first in the primary race.

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  Iconic Iowa steak fry draws historic crowd of 12,000 attendees, 17 presidential candidates

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  Biden Calls Female Moderator ‘Sweetheart’ After Defending LGBTQ Record

  Rolling Stone

Woman convicted in texting suicide case denied parole

The Massachusetts woman convicted of encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself via text messages has been denied early release.

Ex-cop's murder trial for shooting neighbor set to start

Last September, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own apartment. For some, the shooting was a tragic accident with circumstances that can only be described as "very unique." Others place it in pattern of white officers killing black men that, they say, points to systemic problems in American policing. On the eve of trial, one of the only points of agreement about her case in Dallas is that it has the potential to profoundly affect the relationship between police and residents.

105 people injured as a pair of strong earthquakes rattle Albania

Cars were crushed by bricks falling from buildings in Albania's capital Tirana, as the country was struck by a pair of strong earthquakes on Saturday. According to the Ministry of Health, at least 68 people were injured, but some reports say there are as many as 105 people injured. It also damaged about 600 homes and temporarily cut power and water facilities in Tirana and Durres.

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  Cars Destroyed by Falling Debris as Earthquake Rocks Albania

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  Strong earthquake in Albania damages buildings and sends residents fleeing

  AFP

How 1 Mistake Cost Hitler Victory During World War II

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of five articles providing critical analysis as to how Germany Might Have Won World War Two. In our last article, we examined some of the actions that Germany might have taken to achieve its territorial objectives without having to fight the Western Powers of Britain, France and the United States of America in World War Two. Some of the most important ways for Germany to have won the war would have been to have waited until German industries had recovered from the limitations imposed by the Versailles Treaty to maximize Germany's military potential.

Egypt's hardline president el-Sissi faces calls to quit in rare protests

Rare anti-government protests broke out in Egypt over the weekend calling on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to step down -  in the first major protests against his rule since he took power in 2014. In the capital, Cairo, dozens of protesters gathered on Friday night near Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights said security forces reportedly rounded up at least four dozen people in Cairo and elsewhere in the country in a move that was condemned by Human Rights Watch.

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  Demonstrators clash with Egyptian security forces in rare anti-Sisi protests

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  Egypt warns media it's monitoring protest coverage

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Surprising Facts You Didn't Know About Rhinos

Do you know how much dung one rhino produces a day? From Popular Mechanics

New York Post blasts Bill de Blasio with 'obituary' for his ended presidential campaign

WASHINGTON – The New York Post published an "obituary" for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's now-concluded presidential campaign. De Blasio, who is currently serving his second term as mayor, was blasted by the newspaper, which wrote that his campaign had "died" from "ego-induced psychosis." Neighbors said the body had been in rigor mortis for some time,” the mock obituary says.

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  New York Post Declares De Blasio's 2020 Bid 'Dead Of Ego-Induced Psychosis'

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  De Blasio’s Done, and the Joke’s on New York City

  The Daily Beast

Five-year period ending 2019 set to be hottest on record

A damning new UN report published Sunday said the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster because of runaway warming, with the five-year period ending 2019 set to be the hottest ever. It comes ahead of a major UN climate summit Monday that will be attended by more than 60 world leaders, as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pushes for countries to increase their greenhouse gas reduction targets. The report "highlights the urgent need for the development of concrete actions that halt global warming and the worst effects of climate change," said its authors, the Science Advisory Group to the summit.

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  UN Secretary-General: 'Climate is becoming an electoral issue'

  Yahoo Finance
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  Climate Protesters and World Leaders: Same Planet, Different Worlds

  The New York Times

White supremacist who praised ‘psychedelic Nazis’ caught with stockpile of guns and LSD

In a secret chat last November, according to court filings, two associates of a violent white supremacist group discussed whether drug use was in line with their political beliefs. There's nothing more Aryan than entheogenic drug use,” Andrew Thomasberg, 21, texted a friend, according to prosecutors, referencing plants that have psychedelic effects. Thomasberg was arrested at his home in McLean, Virginia, on Thursday, according to court filings, accused of possessing guns as a drug user and illegally buying an AK-47 in 2017 for that friend, who is cooperating with authorities.

Stacks of cash shown at trial of Sudan's toppled leader Bashir

Stacks of cash piled high were shown as evidence on Saturday against ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir at his trial on charges of possessing illicit foreign currency and corruption. Millions of euros and Sudanese pounds were found at Bashir's residence in April after he was overthrown and detained by the military following months of demonstrations against his rule. The court heard four defense witnesses on Saturday, including Abubakr Awad, who was minister of state for the presidency until Bashir's fall, before it was adjourned until next Saturday.

More Fracking, or More War?

If the United States declines to go to war against Iran on behalf of Saudi Arabia, our increasingly troublesome client state, one of the reasons for that happy development will be: because we do not need to. U.S. interests and Saudi interests remain aligned, broadly, but they are severable. The high-tech method of mining shale formations for oil and gas colloquially known as “fracking” — though hydraulic fracturing is only a part of it — has been a game-changer for more than one game.

Russia and Japan Fought a Bloody War in China (Did History Forget)?

Between 1938 and 1939, the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire fought a series of clashes along the border between Japanese-occupied Manchuria, Russian-controlled Mongolia and the Siberian frontier near Russia's vital Pacific port of Vladivostok. The prizes were the rich resources of Manchuria, and beyond that, which of the two would be the dominant power in Northeast Asia. But even more important was the ultimate outcome of the Manchurian battles, which culminated in Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War between Japan and the United States.