(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong protesters threw bricks and gasoline bombs at police, who responded with tear gas, as chaotic scenes returned to the summer-long anti-government protests on Saturday for the first time in nearly two weeks. Hundreds of black-clad protesters armed with bamboo poles and baseball bats fought with police officers wielding batons on…
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President Donald Trump and the leaders of some of the U.S.’s closest allies have arrived in the French seaside town of Biarritz for the 45th Annual Group of 7 Summit. For two days, leaders from the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Italy, Germany and Japan, as well as top E.U. officials, will discuss global challenges involving…
A third of U.S. adults are so stressed by the prospect of mass shootings that they avoid visiting certain places or attending certain events, according to a new survey from the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Harris Poll. The survey, released shortly after a pair of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso,…
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‘You Either Value Us Equally… or You Don’t.’ Megan Rapinoe Criticizes U.S. Soccer After Pay Talks Break Down
by News 24The players of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team may have to take their equal pay case to trial after negotiations between the team and U.S. Soccer broke down this week. “From a social perspective, from leaving the game in a better place, for women everywhere, if it’s not equal, then there’s no deal that…
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‘It Feels Like I’m Chosen to Do This.’ Inside the Record-Breaking Rise of Lil Nas X
by News 24Lil Nas X is getting bored. At a bowling alley in midtown Manhattan, he plays a giant Connect 4, then ping-pong and then, even as he checks and re-checks his phone, he races back and forth between two lanes, pins clattering in surround sound as he bowls one spare after another. But for the 20-year-old…
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The Jeffrey Epstein Investigation Continues After His Death. Here’s Who Else Could Be Investigated
by News 24Prosecutors have vowed that Jeffrey Epstein’s death will not stop the child sex abuse investigation that led to his arrest last month. The new sex trafficking and conspiracy charges alleged that he paid girls as young as 14 for sex and used them to recruit other girls between 2002 and 2005. Federal prosecutors in New…
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‘A Very Volatile Situation’: At Least 6 Police Officers Injured in Philadelphia Shooting
by News 24Philadelphia’s top two law enforcement officials personally helped negotiate the surrender of a man armed with an assault rifle suspected of shooting and wounding six police officers during an hours-long standoff on Wednesday. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told reporters on Thursday that he, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr. and the suspect’s former attorney…
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Planned Parenthood Could Lose Millions in Preventative Care Funding for Poor and Uninsured Patients on Monday
by News 24A new Trump administration abortion rule may cause Planned Parenthood to be “forced out” of a federal program on Monday that helps to fund reproductive healthcare care like cancer screenings, STD testing and birth control for 1.5 million of its patients. The healthcare nonprofit declared on Wednesday that it will leave the Title X program…
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Jail Guards Allegedly Skipped Welfare Checks on Jeffrey Epstein in the Days Prior to His Death
by News 24(NEW YORK) — Jail guards are suspected of falsifying log entries to show they were checking on inmates in Jeffrey Epstein‘s unit every half hour when they actually weren’t, according to a person familiar with the probe into his death. Surveillance video reviewed after the 66-year-old financier’s suspected suicide over the weekend shows guards did…
(STOCKHOLM) — A Swedish court on Wednesday found A$AP Rocky guilty of assault for his role in a June 30 street brawl in Stockholm that drew the close attention of U.S. President Donald Trump. Though the 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, and his two bodyguards were found to have hit and kicked…