U.S.NBC NewsTwo arrested in deadly road rage shooting of boy on California freeway
Two people were arrested in the fatal shooting of a six-year-old boy after a road rage incident on a Southern California freeway, the California Highway Patrol announced Sunday. The suspects, identified as Eriz Marcus Anthony, 24, and Lee Wynne, 23, were arrested at their home in Costa Mesa, California, the CHP said in a news release. Details about what led to the arrests were not disclosed, but they came after a reward for information climbed to $500,000.
PoliticsAxiosProgressive dam about to break
House progressives are getting fed up with efforts to accommodate Republican senators — and Joe Manchin. Why it matters: The White House is under growing pressure to accede to the left's demand to bust the filibuster. One of the clearest signs of this coming confrontation is a tweet this morning by Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), a leading House progressive, who criticized Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for announcing his opposition to a sweeping voting-rights bill passed by the House in March.
U.S.Associated PressNo mass protests after Honolulu police shoot, kill Black man
Lindsay Myeni and her South African husband moved to Hawaii, where she grew up, believing it would be safer to raise their two Black children here than in another U.S. state. Three months after they arrived, Honolulu police shot and killed her husband, 29-year-old Lindani Myeni, who was Black. “We never thought anything like this would ever happen there,” Lindsay Myeni, who is white, told The Associated Press in an interview from her husband's hometown, Empangeni in Kwazulu-Natal province.
WorldThe TelegraphForeign aid rebels urge No 10 to reintroduce spending pledge or risk Commons defeat
Tory rebels have urged the Government to re-introduce its 0.7 per cent foreign aid pledge next year or face defeat in the Commons. Over 40 MPs, including former Prime Minister Theresa May, are understood to be prepared to back an amendment on Monday that would require ministers to reverse their cut in the foreign aid budget to 0.5 per cent of national income. The Government has so far refused to budge, and Matt Hancock declared on Sunday that it was "entirely reasonable" to cut foreign aid when the UK faced "a once-in-300-year economic interruption" as a result of the pandemic.
U.S.Axios2 Arizona wildfires burn 60,000 acres and force hundreds of people to evacuate
Two wildfires in eastern Arizona have triggered evacuation orders for hundreds of people as they burned across 60,000 acres Sunday, per CNN. Driving the news: The fires are burning amid hot, dry conditions and as much of the state is experiencing an "extreme" or "exceptional drought." Details: One of the blazes, the Telegraph Fire, has razed some 34,365 acres since erupting on Friday, forcing the closure of a major highway near Tonto National Forest, according to the InciWeb wildfire information system.
U.S.Kansas City StarYoung teen critically injured in shooting Saturday afternoon in Kansas City, police say
A child was critically injured in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Kansas City, police said. Officers were called just after 4:15 p.m. to the 2400 block of Spruce Avenue on a shooting, Officer Donna Drake, a spokeswoman with the Kansas City Police Department, said in an email. When police arrived, they found “a large crowd of individuals” rendering aid to a victim lying in the street suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound, Drake said.
PoliticsThe GuardianTrump adviser Lewandowski: he ‘lost the election’ and will not be reinstated
The morning after Donald Trump returned to frontline politics with a speech in North Carolina, a close adviser poured cold water on his reported belief that he will be reinstated in the White House when it is proved Joe Biden beat him thanks to electoral fraud. Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager in 2016 and a loyal sidekick since, told Fox News Sunday Trump “lost the election”. Indeed he did, by more than 7m ballots in the popular vote and by 306-232 in the electoral college, a result Trump called a landslide when it was in his favour against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Scuffles as Hong Kong bans Tiananmen vigil
Security was tight overnight Friday in Hong Kong, as police locked down a park that hosts an annual vigil for the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. The vigil is usually the world's largest June 4th anniversary event. But authorities banned it for a second year in a row, citing the global health crisis.
U.S.Charlotte ObserverCommunity leaders on CMS funding: Mecklenburg plan doesn’t help students, schools
Last Tuesday, a majority of Mecklenburg County commissioners approved withholding $56 million in funding from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. This funding shortfall comes when our schools need the right resources to deliver learning outcomes, and to provide the educational environment that our students need and deserve. County commissioners have said they are withholding $56M in funding until CMS provides “an acceptable proposal to address lower performing schools.”
U.S.INSIDERThe mom of a teen accused of murder was caught on video scrubbing blood off her son's jeans, prosecutors say
A 14-year-old in Florida is accused in the brutal murder of seventh-grader Tristyn Bailey. The teen's mom was also arrested after trying to wash blood off her son's jeans, prosecutors said. The mother of a 14-year-old boy charged with first degree murder in Florida has also been arrested for tampering with evidence, according to St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
U.S.CBS NewsTexas bakery sells out of inventory after facing Pride backlash
Confections in Lufkin, Texas announced on Thursday that it would be selling rainbow cookies for Pride Month. Confections took to Facebook to reveal that many of its customers had sent hateful messages and canceled orders and claimed its "likes" were also plummeting.
PoliticsLA TimesA conservative talk radio host once backed the Arizona GOP election recount. Now he's warning Republicans against it
Mike Broomhead talks for a living, but for a moment last week, all he could do was sigh. With that flash of wordless exasperation behind him, he continued with his work: delivering the latest update on the Maricopa County election recount to listeners of his eponymous morning talk radio show. This is the type of criticism one might expect from Democrats, who opposed the recount effort from the beginning, or from one of the many election experts who raised alarms at the stark departure from established audit practices, or from a Never-Trump Republican trying to wrest the party from the former president's grip.
U.S.INSIDERA Florida police officer caught a 2-month-old baby that a suspect in a high-speed chase threw at him
A man took police in Florida on a 40-minute car chase on May 26. After a lengthy high-speed chase, a suspect in Florida hurled his 2-month-old baby boy at a police officer who safely caught the child, the Indian River County Sheriff's Office said. The suspect, identified as 32-year-old John Henry James III, is facing two felony counts of aggravated child abuse and other felony charges.
PoliticsFort Worth Star-TelegramMattie Parker declara victoria electoral sobre Deborah Peoples en Fort Worth
Resultados no oficiales a las 10 p.m. del sábado mostraban a Parker con el 53% de los votos comparado con 47% de Peoples. Juntos haremos cosas extraordinarias”, dijo Parker un poco antes de la 10 p.m.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderFox News anchor Chris Wallace grilled Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin for 'being naive' about bipartisanship in his filibuster stance
Sen. Joe Manchin reiterated his opposition to killing the filibuster in an op-ed Saturday. On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace pressed Manchin on his hopes for bipartisan cooperation. "Haven't you empowered Republicans to be obstructionists?" Wallace asked.
U.S.INSIDERA Texas woman was arrested after posing as her 13-year-old daughter for a day of a middle school
Casey Garcia, 30, posed as her 13-year-old daughter for what she described as a social experiment. Garcia said she made it through nearly an entire school day before getting caught. Casey Garcia was arrested on Friday in El Paso, Texas after she was identified posing as her 13-year-old daughter and for almost an entire school day.
WorldCBS NewsGuatemala's president says Kamala Harris "doesn't hold back"
The world leader who has spoken with Vice President Kamala Harris most frequently about U.S. immigration policy describes her as a straight-talking, detail-oriented leader paying careful attention to the long-standing reasons that people leave his country. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, who is set to host Harris on Monday here during her first international trip as vice president, also says that the change of administrations in Washington was exploited by human traffickers, known as "coyotes," who ferried thousands of children to the U.S.-Mexico border within days of President Biden formally rescinding the Trump-era family separation policy. Giammattei wants American lawmakers to toughen federal laws against traffickers and is ready to extradite them to face charges.
U.S.Business InsiderAn Amazon delivery driver was caught on camera repeatedly punching an elderly woman during an argument in California
An Amazon driver was caught on film punching a customer. Video footage shows the worker beating the woman around her head, KTVU reported. Amazon told Insider she is no longer delivering packages for the company.
U.S.Business InsiderRand Paul says he and his family have received death threats amid 'outspoken' clashes with Fauci over origins of COVID-19
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said he'd received death threats for his criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Paul has recently accused Fauci of misleading the public on the possible origins of the coronavirus. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told Fox News on Friday that he's been receiving death threats for his public criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious diseases expert.
U.S.INSIDER3 people dead, including a corrections officer, and several others shot after a shooting during a Florida graduation celebration
A mass shooting in Miami-Dade County, Florida, left three people dead and several others wounded Sunday morning, according to police and reports. Police said the shooting happened around 2 a.m after a graduation party held at a hookah restaurant and lounge located in a strip mall, WPLG-TV reported. As people were leaving, two cars drove into the strip mall and those who were inside started shooting, NBC News reported.
WorldBusiness InsiderHow China is trying to fix the biggest problem plaguing its fighter jets
China's leaders regularly tout their fighter jets as symbols of military capability. But China's fighter jets have long had a major shortcoming: a lack of quality engines. China's defense industry has struggled with that flaw, but Beijing is working hard to fix it.
SportsThe Independent‘We all said a little prayer’: US vice president Kamala Harris’s plane forced to land shortly after take-off
A plane carrying US vice president Kamala Harris on her first foreign trip was forced to return to base after just 30 minutes following a “technical difficulty. Ms Harris had been due to fly to Guatemala and Mexico on Sunday and took off from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. But the plane suffered a technical issue and returned less than an hour later, as reported by the Associated Press.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderTrump disputes that the US is a 50-50 nation, says he 'can't believe' that some states are blue
The 2020 electoral map reflected a familiar dichotomy in American politics - while Democratic "blue" states like California and New York voted for Joe Biden by wide margins, Republican "red" states like Alabama and Idaho were firmly in President Donald Trump's column. However, during Trump's speech at the North Carolina GOP Convention on Saturday, he seemed incredulous at the notion that liberal-leaning states would have rejected his conservative platform in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Raising the issue of defunding police departments, which Biden and most congressional Democrats oppose, Trump refuted the concept that voters might side with left-of-center candidates.
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2 stabbed multiple times in Visalia bar
Police are searching for the suspect who stabbed two people at at the Fifth Quarter Bar in Visalia just before 2 am on Sunday.
SportsLexington Herald-Leader2021 Belmont Stakes complete order of finish and payoffs
Essential Quality entered the Kentucky Derby as the undefeated favorite and looking like the class of the 2021 Triple Crown series. The Brad Cox trainee finished fourth that day but delivered on all that promise Saturday, overtaking Hot Rod Charlie down the stretch to win the 153rd Belmont Stakes at Elmont, N.Y. The 1 1/4-length victory was Essential Quality's sixth in seven career races, a stretch that includes the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in April. Essential Quality, who went off as the 6-5 favorite, paid $4.60 to win, $3.00 to place and $2.60 to show.
“It may seem desperate at this point, but I can’t be mad at any and all efforts to get people vaccinated.”
“I won’t get rich, but I will get to live my life. That seems like reward enough.”
“Offering incentives may encourage people who are not actively opposed to vaccination but may have put it off.”
“At some point, the government is simply rewarding irresponsible behavior.”
“Sure, people should do it without needing an incentive. But what’s the alternative? Not enough people get vaccinated.”