WorldBBCKim Jong-un: North Korea sees 'grave incident’ after Covid lapses
Kim Jong-un has berated top officials over lapses which caused a "grave incident" related to Covid-19, North Korean state media report. It was a rare sign of the pandemic's severity in North Korea, which previously insisted it had no Covid cases - a claim doubted by experts. In remarks reported by state news outlet KCNA, Mr Kim accused senior officials of negligence at a specially convened meeting of party leaders.
PoliticsAxiosSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem deploys National Guard to U.S-Mexico Border
The big picture: The deployment to the border is slated to last 30–60 days and will be paid for by a private donation, Noem's office said. Between the lines: Abbott has routinely fought with the Biden administration on issues around the U.S.-Mexico border. In May, Abbott issued a directive to deny or discontinue state licenses for facilities that have partnered with the Federal government, potentially forcing the relocation of 4,223 migrant children.
U.S.Associated PressFacebook message leads to warrant in years-old rape claim
While she pleaded for prosecutors to take up her college rape complaint, Shannon Keeler studied in Spain, won a national championship in lacrosse, earned a bachelor's degree and fell in love. Here's the name of the hospital where my coach took me for a rape kit. After verifying the account, and after Keeler told her story to The Associated Press, a new team of police and prosecutors on Tuesday obtained an arrest warrant, charging Ian Cleary, 28, of Saratoga, California, with sexually assaulting Keeler when they were students at Gettysburg College in 2013.
U.S.Washington ExaminerFormer Disney star charged with felony immoral communication with minor
Cory in the House star Kyle Massey could spend time in the big house after being accused of sending pornographic material to a minor. Massey, 29, was charged with felony immoral communication with a minor on June 14 in King County, Washington, after an unnamed 13-year-old girl and her mother first brought a lawsuit against him in 2019, according to court documents first obtained by TMZ. The March 2019 lawsuit seeking $1.5 million alleged Massey "held himself out as a father figure" to the girl in 2018 and requested to be her friend on Snapchat, at which point, he sent her "numerous sexually explicit text messages, images and videos."
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In twin building of Miami complex that collapsed, most residents remain
About a block from the Miami-area beachfront condominium tower that collapsed sits its sister building, erected a year later by the same company, using the same materials and a similar design. This has made some residents of Champlain Towers North worried enough to leave, though most have remained.
PoliticsThe WeekNew York elections board says mayoral vote 'discrepancy' was 135,000 extra 'dummy' ballots, starts count over
New York City's first mayoral election using ranked-choice voting is not going well. The city Board of Elections released an unofficial count of ranked in-person Democratic primary votes on Tuesday, then acknowledged there was a "discrepancy" in the numbers. At 10:30 p.m., the board explained that this "discrepancy" was 135,000 "dummy" ballots that should not have been counted.
WorldReutersInaugurating embassy in UAE, Israel tells region: 'We're here to stay'
DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel's new foreign minister inaugurated its embassy in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday and offered an olive branch to other former adversaries, saying: "We're here to stay." Yair Lapid's two-day visit, in which he will open an Israeli consulate in Dubai on Wednesday, is the first to the Gulf state by an Israeli cabinet minister since the countries established ties last year. The trip is also an opportunity for the two-week-old Israeli government of Naftali Bennett, a nationalist who heads an improbable cross-partisan coalition, to make diplomatic inroads despite long-stymied talks with the Palestinians.
WorldThe ConversationChina's 'one-child policy' left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age, with no one to take care of them
From 1980 to 2015, the Chinese government limited couples to one child only. I have interviewed over 100 Chinese parents who started their families during this period and have since lost their only child – whether to illness, accident, suicide or murder. Having passed reproductive age at the time of their child's death, these couples were unable to have another child.
U.S.The WeekGalveston County, 400 miles from the Texas-Mexico border, declares an emergency over 'border crisis'
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is hosting former President Donald Trump on Wednesday at the Texas-Mexico border, where Abbott is using an unprecedented May 31 border "disaster" declaration to spend state funds on a border wall he has pledged to build. Abbott amended his order on Monday, giving the 34 border counties a chance to opt out of his emergency declaration and other counties a chance to join — 11 counties dropped out, and five new counties joined, some of them 300 miles or more away from the border. Galveston County County Judge Mark Henry (R) said Tuesday that he has signed a local disaster declaration in response to the "ongoing border crisis."
WorldAssociated PressEthiopia hints at Tigray military move; cease-fire in doubt
Ethiopia's government says its military could re-enter the capital of its embattled Tigray region within weeks, calling into question the unilateral cease-fire it declared in Tigray just days ago. Redwan Hussein, spokesman for the Tigray emergency task force, spoke to reporters on Wednesday in Ethiopia's first public remarks since its soldiers retreated from the Tigray capital and other parts of the region on Monday in a dramatic turn in the nearly eight-month war. The Tigray forces that have retaken key areas after fierce fighting have rejected the cease-fire, telling The Associated Press it was a “sick joke' and vowing to chase out Ethiopian forces and those of neighboring Eritrea.
PoliticsNational ReviewEric Adams Says Vote Counting Raises ‘Serious Questions’ after Losing Ground In NYC Mayor’s Race
In a statement released Tuesday, New York City mayoral race frontrunner and Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams questioned the update in the ranked-choice voting election results, which shrank his winning margin significantly. The vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions,” Adams wrote. The candidate demanded the board explain apparent discrepancies in the most recent dump of ranked-choice voting results.
U.S.CBS NewsDeath toll rises in Florida condo collapse
The confirmed death toll in the condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida, rose to at least 12 on Tuesday, according to Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Klisheimer has extensive experience investigating other disasters like the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon and the Florida International University bridge collapse in 2018.
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PoliticsMiami HeraldSurfside resident Ivanka Trump quietly helped out after tower collapse, reports say
Ivanka Trump is helping. The part-time Surfside resident donated money after the partial collapse of the Champlain Tower South on Thursday, NBC6 reports. An insider told the station the former first daughter helped financially with an effort to get food to first responders and volunteers.
WorldAssociated PressAustralia offers all adults AstraZeneca to speed up rollout
Australia is offering AstraZeneca to all adults in a bid to rapidly ramp up sluggish vaccination rates as more of the country on Tuesday locked down against the spread of COVID-19. The government late Monday agreed to indemnify doctors who administer the AstraZeneca vaccine that has been blamed for at least two fatalities from a rare blood clot complication in Australia since April. Pfizer has been the recommended vaccine for people younger than 60 since a 52-year-old woman died in May of blood clots in the brain blamed on AstraZeneca.
WorldLA TimesAn Indian island paradise escaped COVID-19. Then a Hindu nationalist official arrived
Patel lifted restrictions on travel to the islands that had kept Lakshadweep remarkably free of COVID-19. The relaxation came just as India's disastrous second wave was developing, resulting in a sudden and deadly outbreak in the island community. But what sparked protests and turned this rarely noticed collection of reefs into national news was prompted when Patel, a loyalist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, introduced sweeping plans to overhaul life in the Muslim enclave.
U.S.Kansas City StarKansas City, Kansas, police shot and killed 2 suspects in 5 days. Here’s what we know — and don’t
Authorities are investigating after two suspects were fatally shot by police in separate incidents within five days of each other in Kansas City, Kansas. Nancy Chartrand, a spokeswoman with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, on Monday called the two shootings within a week of each other “highly uncommon.” On Father's Day, officers fatally shot Dario Dominguez, 25, who was suspected in an armed carjacking days prior.
WorldCBS NewsU.S. troops leaving Afghanistan on brink of all-out civil war
U.S. officials have said the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan will most likely be finished by July 4. Behind them, they'll leave Afghanistan's own security forces struggling to defend their country from a brazen Taliban offensive. CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata went to the front line in the still-raging war this week with Afghan forces.
U.S.Kansas City StarMissouri students pilloried for white supremacist gesture were doing no such thing
A Poplar Bluff High School alum wants to apologize to some 2021 graduates of her old high school for inadvertently spreading misinformation about them on social media. In the photo, the students were mimicking a hand gesture made popular by Michael Jordan after he and his Chicago Bulls twice won the NBA national title three years in a row — a three-peat. Like Jordan, the students are holding up three fingers, palms turned inward.
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19-year-old faces charges in father's Duxbury death
Jake Callahan is facing a murder charge in the death of his father, 57-year-old Scott Callahan, who was found dead Monday in Island Creek Pond at Crooker Memorial Park.
U.S.USA TODAY'Scared and confused': Elderly inmate sent home during COVID is back in prison after going to computer class
On June 16, about a year after the Justice Department allowed her to serve her sentence at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, Levi was re-arrested for violating the terms of her home confinement, her attorney, Sapna Mirchandani said. Levi attended a computer class in Baltimore four days earlier, believing she had been approved to do so. Officials at her halfway house pinged her ankle monitor and called her several times after realizing she wasn't home.
WorldBBCNew UK laws to sweep away EU state aid rules
New legislation set to replace EU rules will grant the government and councils greater freedom to support businesses, the business secretary has said. The Subsidy Control Bill will replace EU-wide state aid rules, which require member states to seek approval for government assistance to firms. Ministers said the rules will allow the government to help companies with grants or loans faster.
U.S.INSIDERFamily members of a couple missing in the Florida condo collapse continue to receive phantom phone calls from their landline. Experts don't know why.
The family of a couple still missing in the Florida condo collapse keeps getting calls from them. The calls come from a landline, but experts don't know why, The Washington Post reported. The family of an elderly couple still missing in the Florida condo collapse is getting phone calls from their landline number and experts aren't exactly sure why, The Washington Post reported.
HealthKansas City StarLetters: Readers discuss Kansas City vaccines, potty-mouthed teenager, Catholic care
Sadly, last year many camps, organized sporting events and even everyday activities such as going to the park were limited because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we continue to fight through this unprecedented event, opportunities to stay active and healthy are reemerging. Parents should encourage physical activity in their kids to benefit their physical health, as well as their mental well-being.
PoliticsThe IndependentProud Boys leader stepping down as far-right group gets into local politics
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will step down from his position in September while the group – a far-right, self-described chauvinist gang labelled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – focuses its efforts around local politics in the aftermath and political fallout from the Capitol insurrection. In an interview with NPR, Mr Tarrio said he will leave his role as national chairman to focus on his Florida chapter, while other members “start getting more involved in local politics, running our guys for office from local seats, whether it's a simple GOP seat or a city council seat.” At least one former Proud Boys member, Joel Campbell, is running for a city council seat in Topeka, Kansas, though he told NPR that if he was to seriously pursue his political ambitions, “I could not be associated with them anymore.”
“Obamacare is getting stronger every time the Republicans try to kill it.”
“It is far from certain the Supreme Court will safeguard the Affordable Care Act the next time the law reaches the court’s chambers.”
“Although ACA cost Obama an enormous amount, it’s become clear that he will have the last laugh.”
“Even the feistiest Republicans have given up talking seriously about repeal.”
“Current and future cases will largely concern the administration and enforcement of the ACA, not its underlying architecture.”