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GOP House Whip Steve Scalise remains in critical condition after shooting at baseball practice

June 15, 2017

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Rep. Steve Scalise, a congressional staffer, a lobbyist and a member of the Capitol police force were shot Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, during a Republicans’ early-morning practice ahead of a charity baseball game.

Federal law enforcement officials identified the alleged shooter as James Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, Illinois, who died following a shootout with authorities.

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At least six people including Scalise, the third ranking member of House Republican leadership as the majority whip, were hospitalized.

Steve Scalise shot

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Donald Trump just held the weirdest Cabinet meeting ever

June 13, 2017

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Leave it to Donald Trump to reinvent the Cabinet meeting.

The public portion of these gatherings of all of the president’s top advisers are usually staid affairs. Photographers are let in to take pictures. The president makes a very brief statement. A reporter shouts a question, unanswered. The end.

Donald Trump did something very different in his Cabinet meeting Monday.

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First, he reviewed the various alleged successes of his first 143 days and made this remarkable claim: “Never has there been a president….with few exceptions…who’s passed more legislation, who’s done more things than I have.”

Um, ok. While Trump has signed a number of executive orders and actions — the most high profile of which, the so-called “travel ban” was, again, blocked by a court on Monday — what he hasn’t really done is pass actual legislation through Congress. The health care bill is tied up in Senate machinations. Tax reform hasn’t moved an inch. Funding for the border wall hasn’t happened. And so on.

Trump receives praise from cabinet

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/index.html

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‘Batman’ actor Adam West dies

June 10, 2017

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Adam West, star of the popular and campy 1960s “Batman” TV show, died Friday night after “a short but brave battle with leukemia,” his family said in a statement. He was 88.

In a signature role, West played Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, the crime-fighting, costumed Batman, a popular comics character who came to life on the ABC-TV series. The show, with a catchy — some might say aggravating — theme song, earned a cult following.

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The series lasted three seasons and enjoyed a long afterlife in syndication.

West later supplied the voice of Mayor Adam West, the oddball leader of Quahog, Rhode Island, on the animated series “Family Guy.”

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/celebrities/obit-adam-west/index.html

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10 things we learned from the James Comey hearing

June 8, 2017

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Former FBI Director James Comey came to the Senate intelligence committee ready to unload, one month after President Donald Trump fired him, and he delivered.

Comey talked for close to three hours, answering a range of questions about the FBI’s Russia investigation, and his private interactions with Trump and his thinking about how he handled the Hillary Clinton email probe. And, like his previous hearings, he made it hard for Democrats and Republicans to extract clear victories beyond what he wanted to tell.

Comey called President Donald Trump a liar — a lot

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/james-comey-hearing-takeaways/index.html

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards blame Saudis for Tehran attacks

June 7, 2017

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say Saudi Arabia supported ISIS in the deadly twin attacks in Tehran on Wednesday, an accusation likely to infuriate the Saudi kingdom amid high tensions in the region.

At least 12 people were killed when six attackers mounted simultaneous gun and suicide bomb assaults on Iran’s Parliament building and the tomb of the republic’s revolutionary founder, in one of the most audacious assaults to hit Tehran in decades. The targets were highly symbolic.

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Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia and Shiite-majority Iran have had strained relations throughout their history and have been involved in a sectarian feud for more than 1,000 years. The two rivals are on opposite sides of the violent conflicts in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, and given the tensions, Iran’s implication about the attack isn’t a great shock.

Six attackers went after two highly symbolic targets

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/middleeast/iran-parliament-shooting/index.html

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Sources: Acting US ambassador to China quit over Trump climate decision

June 7, 2017

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Acting US ambassador to China David Rank resigned from his post in Beijing over President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, several sources familiar with the decision told CNN.

A career foreign service officer since 1990, Rank assumed the position of deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Beijing in January 2016 and had been serving as charge d’affaires until the arrival of Trump’s pick for the job, former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who was confirmed by Congress late last month.

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“Dave is exactly the type of diplomat any American would want representing their interests abroad, and he was sought after within the State Department for increasingly difficult and challenging assignments because he’s strategic, smart, savvy, curious, loyal and non-partisan,” said Dan Feldman, who worked with Rank for five years on Afghan issues.

Trump has said often climate change isn’t real

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/politics/acting-ambassador-to-china-david-rank-resigns/index.html

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Gunman ‘singled out’ victims in Orlando shooting spree

June 6, 2017

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The gunman in Monday’s fatal shooting spree at an Orlando, Florida, business targeted his victims and had a “negative relationship” with at least one of them, according to law enforcement.

Army veteran John Robert Neumann, Jr. killed five employees of Fiamma Inc. before killing himself, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said.

The company makes accessories for recreational vehicles. Neumann was fired from there in April.

He walked into the business Monday morning and pointed his gun at a new, temporary employee and told her to leave, Demings said.

“He was certainly singling out the individuals he shot,” Demings told reporters Monday afternoon.

5 killed in Orlando workplace

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Source: Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations

June 3, 2017

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Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide’s ties to Russia, a source close to the issue said Wednesday.

Final details are still being worked out and no official date for his testimony has been set. Comey is expected to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia during last year’s presidential election.

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Comey has spoken privately with Special Counsel Robert Mueller III to work out the parameters for his testimony to ensure there are no legal entanglements as a result of his public account, a source said. Comey will likely sit down with Mueller, a longtime colleague at the Justice Department, for a formal interview only after his public testimony.

Sources: Comey to testify publicly about Trump

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/fbi-comey-testimony/index.html

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London Bridge: Van mows down pedestrians, witness says

June 3, 2017

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A van mowed down pedestrians as it sped down London Bridge on Saturday night, leaving bodies lying in the roadway, a witness to the incident told CNN.

Mark Roberts said the van was traveling south across the River Thames at a high rate of speed and was swerving as it struck several people, knocking one person “about 20 feet into the air.”

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The van swerved into oncoming lanes before hitting a bus stop and coming to a stop, Roberts said.

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“Within my line of sight, there were five or six people on the ground that were not moving,” he said. “It looked to me that the van was aiming at the people.”

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Roberts said he heard what sounded like gunshots about 10 minutes later. He estimated 100 people were on the bridge at the time, fewer than earlier in the night because it was getting late.

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“I froze, to be honest,” Roberts said. “As I was thinking … which direction should I run, the van swerved across the other side of the bridge from me.”

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/03/europe/london-bridge-incident/index.html

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Former Penn State President Spanier gets jail time in Sandusky case

June 2, 2017

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The former president of Penn State University and two other former administrators were sentenced to jail terms Friday for failing to report a 2001 allegation that assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was molesting young boys.

The sentence of two months in jail plus another two under house arrest against a once-leading figure in American higher education marks a low point in the largely distinguished career of Graham Spanier, who was Penn State’s president from 1995 to 2011. He was found guilty in March of one misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child.

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Spanier, whose total sentence was four to 12 months incarceration, will be on probation for two years and must pay a $7,500 fine, according to Joe Grace, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania’s attorney general’s office.

Penn State sexual abuse scandal in 60 seconds (video)

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James' World 2

GOP House Whip Steve Scalise remains in critical condition after shooting at baseball practice

Donald Trump just held the weirdest Cabinet meeting ever

‘Batman’ actor Adam West dies

10 things we learned from the James Comey hearing

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards blame Saudis for Tehran attacks

Sources: Acting US ambassador to China quit over Trump climate decision

Gunman ‘singled out’ victims in Orlando shooting spree

Source: Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations

London Bridge: Van mows down pedestrians, witness says

Former Penn State President Spanier gets jail time in Sandusky case

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