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Idaho Statesman:
9 hurt, 4 critically, as man stabs refugee families at Boise low-income apartments — Refugee families at a low-income apartment complex were attacked Saturday night by a man who stabbed nine people — more than any other attack in Boise's history, police said. Four of them suffered injuries that police called life-threatening.
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Stabbing suspect identified, booked into Ada County Jail — Arrested: Timmy Kinner, 30, Los Angeles, CA — Charges: Aggravated Battery (F) - 9 Counts, Injury to Child (F) - 6 counts — Suspect, Timmy Kinner, was booked into the Ada County Jail last night on nine counts of Aggravated Battery and six counts of Injury to Child.
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Susannah Cullinane / CNN:
Nine stabbed at Idaho apartment complex where refugee families live — (CNN)A man is in custody after a stabbing that left nine people injured at an apartment complex that houses refugee families in Boise, Idaho, authorities say. — The victims injured in the stabbing Saturday night included members …
Melissa Gomez / New York Times:
9 Injured in Mass Stabbing at Idaho Apartment Complex, Police Say — A man has been charged in connection with a mass stabbing in Idaho on Saturday night that injured nine, including six children, at an apartment complex that housed refugees, the police said.
Washington Post:
North Korea working to conceal key aspects of its nuclear program, U.S. officials say — U.S. intelligence officials, citing newly obtained evidence, have concluded that North Korea does not intend to fully surrender its nuclear stockpile, and instead is considering ways to conceal the number …
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
John Bolton: No one should have ‘a case of the vapors’ over Trump's summit with Putin — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — National security adviser John Bolton on Sunday defended President Trump's decision to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki this month as a way to get beyond the …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Great Russian Disinformation Campaign — When Westerners first began to hear of Vladimir Putin's troll army—now some five years ago—the project sounded absurd. President Obama in March 2014 had dismissed Russia as merely a weak “regional power.” And Putin's plan to strike …
New York Times:
As Trump Consolidates Power, Democrats Confront a Rebellion in Their Ranks — WASHINGTON — The pitched battle looming over the Supreme Court, along with a jolt to the Democratic leadership at the ballot box last Tuesday, is threatening to shatter the already fragile architecture of the Democratic Party …
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ABC News:
Supreme Court nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade ‘would not be acceptable’: Sen. Collins — Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a critical vote on whomever President Trump nominates to replace Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court, said any nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade would “not be acceptable.”
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Collins: Won't support SCOTUS pick hostile to abortion rights
Collins: Won't support SCOTUS pick hostile to abortion rights
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Adam J. White / Weekly Standard:
Rage at the End of Justice Kennedy's Camelot
Rage at the End of Justice Kennedy's Camelot
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Maxine Waters responds to death threats: ‘You better shoot straight’ — (D-Calif.) has addressed a series of recent death threats she said she has received, telling would-be threateners to “shoot straight” during an immigration rally on Saturday. — “I know that there are those who are talking …
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Ledyard King / USA Today:
Maxine Waters confronts death threats: ‘If you shoot at me, you better shoot straight’
Maxine Waters confronts death threats: ‘If you shoot at me, you better shoot straight’
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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Maxine Waters Responds To Death Threats: 'You'd Better Shoot Straight'
Maxine Waters Responds To Death Threats: 'You'd Better Shoot Straight'
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Eder Campuzano / Oregonian:
Portland Police revoke permit, declare riot as protesters clash downtown — Gallery: Patriot Prayer rally, and counterprotest, in Portland, June 30, 2018 — Portland Police declared a riot Saturday after tensions between the right-wing Patriot Prayer group and local anti-fascist activists came to a head and broke out in violence.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox News Once Gave Trump a Perch. Now It's His Bullhorn. — In 2011, Fox News announced that a new guest would appear weekly on “Fox & Friends,” its chummy morning show. “Bold, brash, and never bashful,” a network ad declared. “The Donald now makes his voice loud and clear, every Monday on Fox.”
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque — and Angry — MUNICH — All seems well in Bavaria. — The streets are clean, unemployment is practically nonexistent, social benefits are generous and a vibrant sense of identity infuses small villages and big cities alike: Even teenagers sometimes don dirndls …
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Gudrun Burwitz, ever-loyal daughter of Nazi mastermind Heinrich Himmler, dies at 88 — Gudrun Burwitz, the true-believing daughter of Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's highest-ranking official after Adolf Hitler, died May 24 in or near Munich. She was 88.
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Trump says he won't sign any NAFTA deal until after midterms — President Trump said Sunday that he is “not happy” with the revised NAFTA deal that his administration has been hammering out with Canada and Mexico and that he doesn't want to sign any new agreement until after the midterm elections in November.
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The Left needs to face reality: Trump is winning — To understand the madness gripping American leftists, try to see the world through their eyes. Presto, you're now part of the raging resistance. — Like the Palestinians who mark Israel's birth as their nakba, or tragedy, you regard Donald Trump's 2016 victory as a catastrophe.
Associated Press:
Zero tolerance sowed confusion from start — WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's top health official could barely conceal his discomfort. — As Health and Human Services secretary, Alex Azar was responsible for caring for migrant children taken from their parents at the border.
Lomi Kriel / Houston Chronicle:
Immigrant parents struggle to find separated children amid chaos on the border — BROWNSVILLE — She crossed the border illegally in May with her four children, one of whom was still breastfeeding and was the progeny, along with another, of her rapists. She was seeking asylum …
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Reveals Apps, Others That Got Special Access to User Data — Answers in a 747-page document to Congress contrasts with previous statements that it restricted access to outsiders in 2015 — Facebook Inc. FB -0.97% disclosed it gave dozens of companies special access to user data …
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Bloomberg:
World's Biggest Trading Bloc a Step Closer After Tokyo Meeting — Asia Pacific ministers work toward RCEP agreement by year end — 16-nation pact would cover one-third of the world economy — Asian trade ministers took another step toward creating what could be the world's biggest trading bloc …
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Melissa Mark-Viverito / New York Daily News:
Why I'm backing Cynthia Nixon: A dedicated & proven progressive for New York governor — When I ran for Speaker of the City Council four years ago, very few gave me a chance. I was too aloof. I was too progressive. I worked hard and I won, but still, many said that I owed my success to someone else …
Washington Post:
Head of Virginia GOP steps down amid Corey Stewart's Senate campaign — RICHMOND — John C. Whitbeck resigned Saturday as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, weeks after Corey Stewart won the party's nomination to take on Sen. Tim Kaine (D) in the November election.
Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
Donald Trump St Andrews: US President's secret attempts to buy landmark hotel — Sorry, we're having problems with our video player at the moment, but are working to fix it as soon as we can — Waiting for Video... Donald Trump tried and failed to convince one of Scotland's leading banks …
capitalgazette.com:
Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget. — Hundreds gathered Friday to honor the employees who were killed Thursday after a gunman blasted his way through the glass door of the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis. Their names are Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.
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