Harris, Warren, others counter Biden's electability argument

Standing before a throng of party faithful in a key early primary state, Joe Biden's leading rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination sought Saturday to undercut the former vice president's argument that he's the ideal Democrat to oust President Donald Trump. California Sen. Kamala Harris charged straight at Trump as she addressed hundreds of activists at the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention. "We need somebody on our stage when it comes for that general election, who knows how to recognize a rap sheet when they see it and prosecute the case," Harris said, playing off her experience as a state and local prosecutor as she shredded Trump on a litany of policy fronts.

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  2020 presidential hopefuls take the stage at the South Carolina Democratic convention

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  TAKEAWAYS: In South Carolina, a new Democratic landscape

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School will no longer be recognised as Catholic after refusing to fire gay teacher, church officials say

A school that refused to fire a gay teacher as ordered by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis says it has been told by church officials that it will no longer be recognised as Catholic. But school leaders pledged to keep the institution's religious identification. The archdiocese announced in a statement that it would no longer recognise Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, an independently operated school, because it was not insisting that all employees "be supportive of all teachings of the Catholic Church," the Catholic News Agency reported.

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  To save its 'Catholic identity,' Indianapolis' Cathedral High School is firing a gay teacher

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  Indianapolis Archdiocese's request to remove same-sex high school teacher denied

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How an Aircraft Carrier and a Submarine Hunted Each Other During the Falklands War

On the afternoon of April 30, 1982, the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Margret Thatcher transmitted a message to three Royal Navy submarines in the South Atlantic—designating the carrier Veinticino de Mayo a priority target to be hunted down and destroyed. The Argentine carrier—ironically, of British origin—posed an unpredictable threat to the Royal Navy taskforce commencing amphibious operations to retake the disputed Falkland Islands following their seizure by Argentinian troops on April 2, 1982. The ensuing nine-day game of cat-and-mouse between British submarines and the anti-submarine aircraft onboard the Veinticinco is recounted in A Carrier at Risk by Mariano Sciaroni, who compares interviews with Argentine sources with Reports of Proceedings filed by British submariners to shed new light on a formerly obscure subject.

Iran reports previous incident with 'spy drone' in May

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted a map on Sunday showing a border incident with a "spy drone" encroaching its airspace in May. Days after Iran shot down another US drone it said had entered its territory, Zarif said the US-made MQ9 Reaper -- also widely used for carrying out military strikes -- had entered Iranian airspace on May 26. The drone was first warned at around 08:30 PM, the map showed, without specifying a time zone.

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  Pompeo arrives in Saudi Arabia for Iran crisis talks

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  US 'conducted cyber attacks on Iran' in response to drone downing

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University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck Missing for Nearly a Week After Taking Lyft

Mackenzie Lueck, a 23-year-old University of Utah student, texted her parents on June 17 to let them know she had landed safely at the Salt Lake City airport, her father told Fox News. According to police, Lueck landed home from a trip around 1 a.m. She then ordered a Lyft to an unfamiliar address in North Salt Lake City, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. According to friends, Lueck's phone has been off since she went missing, her car is still at her home, and her luggage hasn't been found.

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  Utah college student MacKenzie Lueck missing after ride-share from airport

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  College student from El Segundo missing in Salt Lake City

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Syria says sabotage damaged underwater oil pipelines

Five underwater pipelines have been damaged and put out of order after a sabotage attack off the coastal town of Banias, Syria's oil ministry said Sunday. The damage was discovered after divers checked to see what was behind an oil leakage, the ministry said. The ministry gave no further details about the attack saying that the damage will be fixed within hours, by its experts.

Nasa's Curiosity rover detects methane in latest hint at life on Mars

Nasa's Curiosity rover has detected another methane "spike" on Mars, in what could be a sign of alien life on the red planet. According to the New York Times, which obtained an email about the discovery written by senior scientists at Nasa, the rover detected "startlingly high amounts of methane in the Martian air." The detection of methane hints at an even greater discovery - life on Mars - as the gas is often generated by microbes underground known as methanogens,which can survive without oxygen.

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  NASA rover detects high amounts of methane on Mars, which could indicate signs of life

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  A Glint Of Light And A Hint Of Life: Mars Is Getting Very Interesting Right Now

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For Dems, there's no chickening out at Clyburn's fish fry

An oft-quoted parable in the Bible in the Gospel of Matthew goes like this: When Jesus visited the town of Bethsaida, he faced a puzzling problem — there were 5,000 people and only five loaves of bread and two fish. A group of Bernie Sanders supporters waved signs and yelled their candidate's name over and over again.

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  2020 presidential candidates come together in South Carolina

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Sentencing looms in Charlottesville attack; man seeks mercy

The avowed white supremacist who plowed his car into counterdemonstrators opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia two years ago, killing one person and injuring dozens, has asked a judge for mercy and a sentence shorter than life in prison. Lawyers for James Alex Fields Jr., 22, said in a sentencing memo submitted in court documents Friday that the defendant should not spend his entire life in prison because of his age, a traumatic childhood and a history of mental illness. Fields pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes in March and is set to be sentenced on June 28.

When Japan Lost This Battle It Lost World War II For Good

Time-Life correspondent Robert Sherrod later wrote: “[Saipan] was a shadowy land mass, purple against the dim horizon. Peering through his binoculars, Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo was in awe of the nearly 800 ships from Vice Adm. Raymond A. Spruance's 5th Fleet. Just three years before he had led the carrier force at the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that initiated hostilities between Japan and the United States.

Italy holds Netherlands, EU 'responsible' for migrant boat

Italy's hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said he would hold the Netherlands and the European Union "responsible" for the fate of 42 migrants that Rome has blocked from disembarking at Italian ports for over a week. The Dutch-flagged rescue boat Sea-Watch 3 has been stuck in the Mediterranean since rescuing 53 migrants drifting in an inflatable raft off the coast of Libya on June 12. While 11 of those on board the Sea-Watch have been allowed to disembark -- including two pregnant women -- the vessel has been denied permission to dock in Italy.

View Photos of the 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLS-class

The fully redesigned three-row luxury SUV is the (rich) parent's co-conspirator. From Car and Driver

Trump says impeachment ‘is a very unfair thing’, in rambling interview

Donald Trump has said that facing impeachment would be “a very unfair thing” as he has done nothing wrong. A number of Democratic politicians support the policy of impeaching Mr Trump, including Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Senate Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi has refused to try and remove the president from office, despite the debate raging in her caucus over the issue.

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  The Impeachers review: Andrew Johnson and the men who nearly trumped him

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  Trump says reelection 'easier' if he is impeached

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Corona: Sheriff's deputies make arrests, impound dozens of vehicles at street racing gathering

Sheriff's deputies broke up a large gathering of street racers who had taken over a parking lot in Corona, authorities said.

Thomas Roberts on Stonewall 50: ‘I Want LGBTQ Kids to Know It’s OK. It’s OK to Be Different, and OK to Be Gay’

I learned of the Stonewall Riots in 2006-2007. It was shortly after coming out publicly. I was utterly impressed at the bravery protesters showed.

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  NYC Pride: Crews paint rainbow crosswalk outside Stonewall Inn

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  Stephen Sondheim: I’d Like To See the Term LGBT Disappear From the English Language

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Blow to Turkey's Erdogan as opposition wins big in Istanbul

Turkey's main opposition claimed a decisive victory on Sunday in Istanbul's re-run election, dealing one of the biggest blows to President Tayyip Erdogan during his 16 years in power and promising a new beginning in the country's largest city. Ekrem Imamoglu, mayoral candidate of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), was leading with 54% of votes versus 45% for Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) candidate, with more than 99% of ballots opened, Turkish broadcasters said. The election was Istanbul's second in three months after results of an initial March vote were scrapped, setting up the do-over as a test of Turks' ability to check what many saw as their president's increasingly authoritarian power.

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  Erdogan Dealt Stunning Blow as Istanbul Elects Rival Candidate

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  The Latest: Istanbul mayor-elect greets tens of thousands

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The Latest: US struck Iranian computers earlier this week

The Latest on Iran and cyberattacks (all times local): 7:30 p.m. Officials say U.S. military cyber forces earlier this week launched a retaliatory cyber strike against Iranian computer systems amid escalating tensions between the two countries. Three U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the operation on Thursday evening disabled Iranian computer systems that controlled Iran's rocket and missile launchers.

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  U.S. prods Iran for talks to ease Gulf tensions; Tehran dismisses sanctions threat

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  US 'conducted cyber attacks on Iran' in response to drone downing

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Two Nazi Soldiers Proved How Deadly a Sniper Can Be on the Battlefield

The three Soviet tanks edged forward slowly as the drivers scanned for the concealed Germans that lay ahead. The lead tank suddenly clanked to a stop and swung its long barrel around. Antitank panzerfausts were not available to the 3rd Gebirgsjager (Mountain) Division, and the unit had few, if any, sticky charges to blow the tracks from the Soviet T-34 tanks.

8 Can't-Miss Towns Near Great Driving Roads

From east to west, here are eight destinations we recommend to cap off a day of memorable driving. From Car and Driver

Texas sends an additional 1,000 troops to the US-Mexico border

Governor Greg Abbott says the surge of illegal immigration can't go unchecked.

China 'won't allow' G20 discussion of Hong Kong

China said Monday it will not allow discussion of Hong Kong at the G20 summit this week even as US President Donald Trump plans to raise the city's mass protests during his meeting with President Xi Jinping. The semi-autonomous city has been shaken by huge demonstrations this month with protesters demanding the withdrawal of a bill that would allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland. Trump has weighed in on Hong Kong's worst political unrest since its handover from Britain to China in 1997, saying he understood the reason for the protests and hoped demonstrators can "work it out with China".

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  China Says It Will Not Allow Talk of Hong Kong Protests at G-20

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Bear breaks into home, locks itself in laundry room, then goes to sleep in wardrobe before being drugged and removed by police

Eventually, they managed to unlock the door to allow wildlife experts to tranquillise the animal to get it out and return it to the wild. The homeowners, in Butler Creek in the US state of Montana, were alarmed to find the animal had barricaded itself in during the night. The Missoula County sheriff's office posted on social media: “Wow!!!