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    • Nearly 25 years later, suspect in Kristin Smart case arrested

      Nearly 25 years later, suspect in Kristin Smart case arrested

      Paul Flores, who walked Smart home and was the last person to see her alive in 1996, was arrested on Tuesday in San Pedro, Calif., according to a local news outlet.

      Details of her disappearance »
      • 'I just shot him': How could an officer make such a mistake?

        'I just shot him': How could an officer make such a mistake?

      • Kim Potter, cop who killed Daunte Wright, resigns

        Kim Potter, cop who killed Daunte Wright, resigns

      • Disinformation on Fox News was 'no accident': Court brief

        Disinformation on Fox News was 'no accident': Court brief

      • Daunte Wright's family disputes officer's claim

        Daunte Wright's family disputes officer's claim

      • Are NFTs, cryptocurrencies bad for the planet?

        Are NFTs, cryptocurrencies bad for the planet?

    • A battle over tax hikes is causing a GOP identity crisis
      Politics
      Yahoo News

      A battle over tax hikes is causing a GOP identity crisis

      The 69-year-old lawmaker reiterated his opposition to increasing the corporate tax rate to pay for President Biden's proposed infrastructure package. For old-school Republicans like Wicker, tax hikes like the ones Biden is advocating are unfair to high earners and lead to economic stagnation. But J.D. Vance, author of the bestselling “Hillbilly Elegy” and a political newcomer who is likely to mount a U.S. Senate campaign in Ohio next year, is singing a starkly different tune.

    • Driver jailed for 22 years for killing 4 Australian police
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      Driver jailed for 22 years for killing 4 Australian police

      A truck driver was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Wednesday for hitting and killing four police officers on an Australian freeway. Mohinder Singh was drug-effected and sleep-deprived when his truck veered into an emergency stopping lane of Melbourne's Eastern Freeway where three policemen and a policewoman were standing after stopping a speeding car on April 22 last year. Singh, 48, pleaded guilty in the Victoria state Supreme Court last year to four counts of culpable driving causing death, three charges of drug trafficking and one of possessing illicit drugs.

    • U.S. Senate confirms Biden nominee for No. 2 State Dept post
      Politics
      Reuters

      U.S. Senate confirms Biden nominee for No. 2 State Dept post

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee Wendy Sherman to be deputy secretary of state, the number two position at the department. The Senate backed the nomination by 56-42, as a handful of Republicans joined Biden's fellow Democrats to vote in Sherman's favor. Sherman, 71, a foreign policy veteran, ran into Republican resistance because she helped negotiate the 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran, which was fiercely opposed by Republicans as well as some Democrats.

    • Report: Gaetz associate has been cooperating with federal investigators since last year
      U.S.
      The Week

      Report: Gaetz associate has been cooperating with federal investigators since last year

      Joel Greenberg, the former tax collector for Seminole County, Florida, has been providing information about the conduct of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to federal investigators since last year, two people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times on Tuesday. In late March, the Times reported that Gaetz, 38, was the subject of a Justice Department investigation into whether he had sex with a 17-year-old girl and paid for her to travel out of state with him. During a hearing last week, Greenberg's lawyer and a federal prosecutor told the judge it's likely Greenberg will plead guilty sometime in the next few weeks.

      • Matt Gaetz's iPhone Is Seized; Associate Talks In Sex Trafficking Probe: Reports
        Matt Gaetz's iPhone Is Seized; Associate Talks In Sex Trafficking Probe: Reports
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      • John Oliver Hilariously Predicts When Matt Gaetz Will Reveal All
        John Oliver Hilariously Predicts When Matt Gaetz Will Reveal All
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    • EU countries tell Britain they cannot guarantee extradition of criminals in wake of Brexit
      World
      The Telegraph

      EU countries tell Britain they cannot guarantee extradition of criminals in wake of Brexit

      Twenty European Union states are refusing to guarantee that suspected criminals who are citizens of their country can be extradited to the UK. Ten EU countries have declined point blank to allow such extraditions, two will do so only if the suspected criminal agrees and eight have attached other restrictions. The development emerged in recently released documents from Brussels and reflects the fact that Brexit means the UK is no longer part of the European Arrest Warrant.

    • The World’s 9 Most Expensive Home Listings Currently on the Market
      World
      Architectural Digest

      The World’s 9 Most Expensive Home Listings Currently on the Market

      These fantastical houses range from a 64,000-acre Texas ranch to an oceanside estate in the south of France Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

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      Yahoo News Video

      Police chief in Daunte Wright case submits his resignation

      Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said that Chief Tim Gannon of Brooklyn Center had submitted a letter of resignation.

    • White House: First lady Jill Biden to undergo 'procedure'
      Politics
      Associated Press

      White House: First lady Jill Biden to undergo 'procedure'

      The White House says President Joe Biden will accompany his wife, Jill Biden, Wednesday morning to an appointment where she will undergo a “common medical procedure. The White House says both Bidens will then return to the White House and “resume their normal schedule. Later Wednesday, the president is set to address the nation on his plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021.

      • Biden to pull U.S. Afghanistan troops by 9/11
        Biden to pull U.S. Afghanistan troops by 9/11
        Reuters Videos
      • Major training: Biden dog gets help adjusting to White House
        Major training: Biden dog gets help adjusting to White House
        Associated Press
    • India Covid-19 migrants: 'Lockdown will make us beg for food again'
      World
      BBC

      India Covid-19 migrants: 'Lockdown will make us beg for food again'

      Over a grainy video call last week from a grotty little room in the western Indian city of Mumbai, the Sethi brothers repeatedly asked me this question, their voices trembling in nervousness. More than a decade ago, Santosh and Tunna Sethi left their families and homes in the eastern state of Orissa, also called Odisha, in search of work. Of India's more than 450 million migrants, 60 million are inter-state "labour" migrants, according to Chinmay Tumbe, the author of India Moving: A History of Migration.

    • Man fleeing police crashes, wedges Maserati under freeway
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      Man fleeing police crashes, wedges Maserati under freeway

      A man fleeing the California Highway Patrol totaled his girlfriend's Maserati SUV after he careened up an embankment and slammed into the underside of an overpass, wedging the vehicle under a freeway in Oakland, authorities said Tuesday. The driver is lucky to be alive. The owner of the Maserati … not so lucky,” the CHP said in a social media post that included photos of the mangled luxury vehicle.

    • Analysis: Iran's powerful Guard faces scrutiny after attacks
      World
      Associated Press

      Analysis: Iran's powerful Guard faces scrutiny after attacks

      The recent sabotage at Iran's main nuclear enrichment facility is just the latest setback for the country's Revolutionary Guard, though the paramilitary force is rarely publicly criticized due to its power. Its forces failed to stop both an earlier attack at Iran's Natanz facility and the assassination of a top scientist who started a military nuclear program decades earlier. In the wake of the attack, Iran announced Tuesday it would begin enriching uranium at 60% purity, the highest level its program has ever reached.

      • Iran says it will enrich uranium to 60%, highest level ever
        Iran says it will enrich uranium to 60%, highest level ever
        Associated Press
      • Iran to begin 60% uranium enrichment after nuclear site incident
        Iran to begin 60% uranium enrichment after nuclear site incident
        Reuters
    • China push for global power tops U.S. security threats: intelligence report
      World
      Reuters

      China push for global power tops U.S. security threats: intelligence report

      China's push for global power is the leading threat to U.S. national security, while Russia's efforts to undermine American influence and assert itself as a major actor also pose a challenge, said a U.S. intelligence report released on Tuesday. The 2021 Annual Threat Assessment lays out U.S. spy agencies' views of the chief foreign policy issues facing U.S. President Joe Biden in his first year in office, complicated by the coronavirus pandemic and global climate change. While China and Russia are presented as the leading challenges, Iran and North Korea will also test U.S. national security, the report said.

      • Intelligence agencies: China is top threat to U.S. global influence
        Intelligence agencies: China is top threat to U.S. global influence
        Yahoo News
      • US intel report: Virus impact to cause global 'aftershocks'
        US intel report: Virus impact to cause global 'aftershocks'
        Associated Press
    • Putin foe Navalny says he sues prison for withholding Quran
      World
      Associated Press

      Putin foe Navalny says he sues prison for withholding Quran

      Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Tuesday he was suing his prison for withholding the Quran, which he intended to study while serving time in a prison outside Moscow. Navalny has been on a hunger strike for two weeks, protesting prison officials' refusal to let his physician examine him behind bars after he developed severe back and leg pain. But he said Tuesday in an Instagram post that his first lawsuit against prison officials had to do with the Muslim holy book.

    • A bitter custody battle and 3 young lives lost in California
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      A bitter custody battle and 3 young lives lost in California

      Erik Denton was supposed to see his three young children last Sunday, the one day every other week that he was allowed to be with them. Three-year-old Joanna, her 2-year-old brother, Terry, and 6-month-old sister, Sierra, had been staying with their mother — Denton's ex-girlfriend — in Los Angeles. Fearful for their safety, their father had petitioned the court for custody March 1, alleging their mother, Liliana Carrillo, was delusional and had taken the kids and refused to tell him where they were.

    • Russia says troop buildup near Ukraine is a response to NATO
      World
      Associated Press

      Russia says troop buildup near Ukraine is a response to NATO

      Russia's defense minister said Tuesday that the country's massive military buildup in the west was part of readiness drills amid what he described as threats from NATO. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the maneuvers in western Russia that have worried neighboring Ukraine and brought warnings from NATO would last for another two weeks. Speaking at a meeting with the top military brass, Shoigu said the ongoing exercise was a response to what he claimed were continuous efforts by the United States and its NATO allies to beef up their forces near Russia's borders.

      • NATO, US vow support for Ukraine, warn Russia on troops
        NATO, US vow support for Ukraine, warn Russia on troops
        Associated Press
      • NATO, U.S. demand Russia end Ukraine build-up, West examines options
        NATO, U.S. demand Russia end Ukraine build-up, West examines options
        Reuters
    • The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back has returned to active duty without being disciplined or charged
      U.S.
      INSIDER

      The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back has returned to active duty without being disciplined or charged

      Rusten Sheskey, the Wisconsin police officer who shot Jacob Blake, returned from administrative leave on March 31. Blake was shot seven times in the back, and Blake's father said his son was paralyzed from the waist down after the incident. Officer Rusten Sheskey, the Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer who shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake in the back in August 2020 will not be charged or disciplined, the police department said on Tuesday.

      • Kenosha Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Returns To Work Without Discipline
        Kenosha Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Returns To Work Without Discipline
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      • White officer who shot and paralyzed Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, returned to duty
        White officer who shot and paralyzed Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, returned to duty
        Reuters
    • "Sour Grapes" wine fraud con man deported to Indonesia
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      "Sour Grapes" wine fraud con man deported to Indonesia

      A one-time California man who bilked wine collectors out of millions by selling cheaper booze he rebottled in his kitchen has been deported to his native Indonesia, U.S. immigration officials said Tuesday. Rudy Kurniawan, 44, was deported last week on a commercial flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Jakarta, according to a statement from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement. He is a public safety threat because of his aggravated felony conviction," the statement said.

    • Pakistan forces try to clear sit-ins by protesting Islamists
      World
      Associated Press

      Pakistan forces try to clear sit-ins by protesting Islamists

      Pakistani security forces swinging batons and firing teargas moved before dawn Wednesday to clear sit-ins by protesting Islamists in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and elsewhere after five people died in earlier clashes, officials said. The government action comes two days after the arrest of Saad Rizvi, head of the Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan party, sparked protests by his supporters. Two police officers and three other people have been killed in the violence which began Monday after police arrested Rizvi for threatening protests if the government did not expel France's ambassador over depictions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

    • ‘Unlike anything we’ve seen in modern history’: Attacks against journalists soar during Black Lives Matter protests
      World
      The Independent

      ‘Unlike anything we’ve seen in modern history’: Attacks against journalists soar during Black Lives Matter protests

      At least 50 journalists in the US have been arrested during Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the US, while dozens of others have also been injured by rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas. The US Press Freedom Tracker has collected nearly 500 incidents from 382 reports, from the unrest in Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd's killing by police in late May, to demonstrations in more than 70 cities across 35 states since. At least 46 journalists were arrested between the end of May and the beginning of June, according to data collected by the organisation.

    • A Black Army officer pepper-sprayed by police said he thought he could be murdered as officers gave quickly changing commands
      U.S.
      INSIDER

      A Black Army officer pepper-sprayed by police said he thought he could be murdered as officers gave quickly changing commands

      A Black uniformed Army officer was held at gunpoint and pepper-sprayed during a traffic stop. Second lieutenant Caron Nazario filed a lawsuit against the two Virginia officers involved. In a complaint, Nazario said they gave conflicting orders and he was worried he would be murdered.

      • Officer who pepper-sprayed U.S. Army officer fired
        Officer who pepper-sprayed U.S. Army officer fired
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      • Virginia police officer accused of assaulting U.S. Army officer fired
        Virginia police officer accused of assaulting U.S. Army officer fired
        Reuters
    • Canary Islands hotel offers shelter to migrants in need
      World
      Associated Press

      Canary Islands hotel offers shelter to migrants in need

      When hotel director Calvin Lucock and restaurant owner Unn Tove Saetran said goodbye to one of the last groups of migrants staying in one of the seaside resorts they manage in Spain's Canary Islands, the British-Norwegian couple didn't know when they would have guests again. The Spanish government — struggling to accommodate 23,000 people who disembarked on the islands in 2020 — contracted hundreds of hotel rooms left empty due to the coronavirus travel restrictions. The deal not only helped migrants and asylum-seekers have a place to sleep, it also allowed Lucock to keep most of his hotel staff employed.

    • 14 Ways to Do Memphis Without Doing Memphis
      Entertainment
      Architectural Digest

      14 Ways to Do Memphis Without Doing Memphis

      You don't have to commit to full-on maximalism to make a statement Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

    • Georgia lawmaker's legal work targeted again over voting law
      U.S.
      Associated Press

      Georgia lawmaker's legal work targeted again over voting law

      Protesters are trying to get a Georgia state representative fired by cities and counties that pay him to be their attorney, citing his role in pushing through a voting law that adds restrictions. The Washington City Council voted 4-2 to ask Rep. Barry Fleming to resign Monday, WJBF-TV reports. It's not clear if the city can immediately fire the Republican from Harlem because Washington has a contract with Fleming's law firm.

    • Fact check: False claim that President Joe Biden's approval rating lowest in American history
      Politics
      USA TODAY

      Fact check: False claim that President Joe Biden's approval rating lowest in American history

      The claim: President Joe Biden's approval rating is at 11%, the lowest of any president in American history President Joe Biden already has tangled with members of both parties over the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, immigration and infrastructure since his inauguration less than three months ago. But his approval rating is not at an historic low, as a viral social media post suggests. The post, originally from a Twitter account on March 29, attributes Biden's supposed 11% approval rating to a Gallup poll, as reported by the Daily Caller.

    • Queen returns to royal duties four days after Prince Philip's death
      Celebrity
      The Telegraph

      Queen returns to royal duties four days after Prince Philip's death

      The Queen has returned to royal duties just four days after the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. On Tuesday, the 94-year-old monarch hosted her first in-person event since Philip's passing on Friday to mark the retirement of her household's most senior official, former Lord Chamberlain Earl Peel. It was announced at the weekend the monarchy and their households would observe two weeks of royal mourning, with members of the family "continuing to undertake engagements appropriate to the circumstances," a royal official said.

      • Australian comedian finds out Prince Philip has died during joke about him
        Australian comedian finds out Prince Philip has died during joke about him
        Yahoo Celebrity UK
      • 'He is dead but he has a big family': Tribe that worshipped Prince Philip says his spirit will return
        'He is dead but he has a big family': Tribe that worshipped Prince Philip says his spirit will return
        Yahoo News UK
    Companies speak out on voting rights
    • “There’s no ‘both sides of the debate’ when it comes to active voter suppression.”

    • “Companies that do this ooze contempt for their own customers and employees who are not in the leftmost quarter of opinion.”

    • “The truth is that Fortune 500 companies were never taking moral stances from the goodness of their corporate hearts.”

    • “The truth is, the companies hold the cards…If companies stick to their guns, Georgia is likely to back down as well.”

    • “When a company folds to the unfounded outrage of a few misinformed nuts, they are forever at the mob’s beck-and-call.”

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