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Grassley to send Trump Jr. letter asking him to testify

July 13, 2017

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The heads of the Senate judiciary committee are writing a letter to Donald Trump Jr. Thursday requesting that he testify before the committee, Chairman Chuck Grassley told CNN.

Grassley, R-Iowa, previewed his intentions Wednesday when he told reporters that he wanted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to testify before the committee as early as next week, following revelations related to Trump Jr.’s email exchange about meeting with a Russian lawyer regarding potentially damaging information against Hillary Clinton.

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“I think it’s just raised a lot of questions. but the real way that I feel comfortable inviting him is ever since President Trump was elected,” Grassley said Thursday. “It seems like every conversation that has come from somebody in the family where there’s been some sort of issue, they’ve seemed always to be very, very open.”

The heads of the Senate judiciary committee are writing a letter to Donald Trump Jr.

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Massive iceberg breaks away from Antarctica

July 12, 2017

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A massive iceberg weighing more than one trillion tons has broken away from western Antarctica, according to a UK-based research team.

Scientists from Project MIDAS had been monitoring a break in the Larsen C ice shelf — the fourth largest in Antarctica — following the collapse of the Larsen A ice shelf in 1995 and had observed significant advances in the rift over the past 12 months.

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Experts said the separation of a 5,800 square kilometers (2,239 square miles) section of Larsen C was confirmed to have broken away between Monday and Wednesday by NASA’s Aqua MODIS satellite, which is capable of producing images in thermal infrared at a resolution of 1 km.

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“We have been anticipating this event for months, and have been surprised how long it took for the rift to break through the final few kilometers of ice,” Professor Adrian Luckman of Swansea University, lead investigator of the MIDAS project said in a statement.

Massive iceberg breaks away

Map showing iceberg detachment based on data from NASA dated July 12.

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Source: Justice Dept. probe will look at Trump Jr.’s disclosed emails, meeting

July 12, 2017

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Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators plan to examine the meeting and email exchanges disclosed by Donald Trump Jr. as part of the broader Russian-meddling investigation, according to a US official briefed on the matter.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Trump Jr., released an email chain showing that he agreed to meet with someone he believed to be a “Russian government attorney” last summer after receiving an email offering him “very high level and sensitive information” that would “incriminate” Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Justice Dept. probe will look at Trump Jr.’s disclosed emails

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/politics/donald-trump-jr-emails-special-counsel/index.html

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Marine Corps KC-130 crashes in Mississippi, 16 dead

July 11, 2017

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A US Marine Corps transport plane crashed in rural western Mississippi on Monday afternoon, killing all 16 service members who were on board, officials said.

The KC-130, an aircraft that the Marines can use to refuel planes in the air as well as carry cargo, crashed in Leflore County at about 4 p.m. CT, the service said.

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Federal Aviation Administration officials contacted the Marines when the aircraft disappeared from air traffic control radar over Mississippi, officials said.

The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known, the Marines said. The plane went down just off US 82, about 85 miles north of Jackson, with debris found on both sides of the highway, CNN affiliate WDBD reported.

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Trump reports hundreds of millions in income

July 10, 2017

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President Trump reported hundreds of millions of dollars in income Friday in financial disclosure forms that shed more light on his vast business holdings.

At his golf courses alone, Trump reported $288 million in income in the past year. That includes $19.8 million from his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he has spent some weekends as president.

The numbers were reported in a 98-page disclosure form signed by Trump this week and made public by the Office of Government Ethics. The report covers January 2016 through April 15, 2017.

Trump reported $37.2 million in income in the past year from Mar-a-Lago, the private Florida resort where Trump hosted the president of China and ordered missile strikes against Syria. The club has doubled its membership fee in the past year.

The Mar-a-Lago income figure was $7.4 million higher than on his previous financial disclosure filing, in May 2016.

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Fire breaks out in London’s Camden Market

July 10, 2017

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Ten fire engines and more than 70 firefighters responded to a fire in London’s Camden Market, a well-known tourist attraction, early Monday, the London Fire Brigade said.

The blaze was under control by about 3 a.m. local time (10 p.m. ET), the fire service reported, but crews would continue to “damp down” the site into the morning to prevent any reignition.

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The majority of the market was open for business within hours.

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“The first, second and third floors, plus the roof, of a building within the market were damaged by the blaze,” the brigade said in a statement. The building contained a number of different businesses and market stalls.

London’s Camden Market fire

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Ancient ruins found in Rome subway project

July 8, 2017

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Charred ruins from 1,800 years ago are found during subway construction in Rome. CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports.

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Georgia mom accused of killing 4 children and their father

July 8, 2017

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A suburban Atlanta mother was arrested Thursday in the stabbing death of her four children and their father, officials said.

Isabel Martinez, 33, is charged with six counts of aggravated assault and five counts each of murder and malice murder, the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office said. The 33-year-old is being held without bond at the Gwinnett County Jail for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, authorities said.

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A fifth child was found with injuries, officials said. As of Thursday, that girl was in serious, but stable condition at a children’s hospital in Atlanta, Gwinnett County police said.

Four children stabbed to death in Georgia

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CNN exclusive: Inside ISIS-held Raqqa

July 8, 2017

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CNN has gained rare access inside the Old City of Raqqa, as rebels and international forces tightened their circle around ISIS’ de facto capital.

US-led airstrikes breached the 1,300-year-old Rafiqah Wall on Monday and allowed the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to enter the city from the south. CNN is the first Western media organization to film inside the fortification since then.

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After pushing through one of two small gaps in the wall, CNN journalists met with the rebels leading the assault just 200 meters from ISIS positions, as they heard gunfire and explosions nearby.

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The rebels have seized control of territory around 300 meters into the Old City since Monday, but have been confronted with fierce resistance from ISIS.

CNN saw US forces in this area and it appears they have been calling in the airstrikes that have cleared the way for the rebels’ advances. US personnel did not want to be filmed.

.Inside the Old City of Raqqa

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Former Abu Sayyaf fighter warns worse to come in the Philippines

July 7, 2017

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A decade after his release from prison, a former henchman of ISIS’ leader in Asia predicts the battle unfolding in the southern Philippines city of Marawi won’t stop there.

Abu Jihad — not his real name — retains a seriousness about him. His hair is short and neat, and these days streaked with white. He sports a neat goatee and is considered and thoughtful when he speaks.

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He predicts the Marawi siege is only the beginning of a wider jihadist war in the region.

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Under the overall command of Isnilon Hapilon, the wiry leader of the Filipino jihadi Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), militants have held Marawi — a city of 200,000 — for over a month, defiantly facing down government troops and daily airstrikes.

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The intense, bloody battle, which has so far claimed the lives of over 70 soldiers and caused hundreds of thousands to flee, has seen much of the city reduced to rubble as Philippines forces attempt to drive out militants, street by street. Almost 30 civilians have also died in the fighting.

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James' World 2

Grassley to send Trump Jr. letter asking him to testify

Massive iceberg breaks away from Antarctica

Source: Justice Dept. probe will look at Trump Jr.’s disclosed emails, meeting

Marine Corps KC-130 crashes in Mississippi, 16 dead

Trump reports hundreds of millions in income

Fire breaks out in London’s Camden Market

Ancient ruins found in Rome subway project

Charred ruins from 1,800 years ago are found during subway construction in Rome. CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports.

Georgia mom accused of killing 4 children and their father

CNN exclusive: Inside ISIS-held Raqqa

Former Abu Sayyaf fighter warns worse to come in the Philippines

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