Sunday, June 18, 2017

11-Year-Old Boy Kills Himself After Alleged Social Media Prank - and Another Child Is Charged and other top stories.

  • 11-Year-Old Boy Kills Himself After Alleged Social Media Prank - and Another Child Is Charged

    11-Year-Old Boy Kills Himself After Alleged Social Media Prank - and Another Child Is Charged
    Police say criminal charges have been brought against a juvenile in Michigan after an 11-year-old boy killed himself following what the boy’s mother claims was a social media prank.Authorities in Marquette, Michigan, confirm that charges of malicious use of a telecommunication services and using a computer to commit a crime have been brought against an unidentified juvenile after the boy was found unresponsive from a suicide attempt on March 14.Marquette police declined to identify either juveni..
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  • Murder suspect posts $35M bail, upsetting victim's family

    Murder suspect posts $35M bail, upsetting victim's family
    A Chinese real estate scion charged with orchestrating the murder of her children's father was released from a San Francisco Bay Area jail after posting $35 million bail, a highly unusual financial transaction that startled and angered the victim's family and friends. Tiffany Li will remain out of custody after family, friends and her mother's business associates raised $4 million cash and pledged Bay Area properties worth a combined $62 million to post her bail. Courts require double the ba..
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  • Seattle mayor denies sex abuse claims made in lawsuit, media

    Seattle mayor denies sex abuse claims made in lawsuit, media
    Seattle Mayor Ed Murray was accused in a lawsuit of sexually molesting a teenage high-school dropout in the 1980s. Two other men claim in interviews with The Seattle Times that Murray abused them in the 1980s when they lived in an Oregon center for troubled children. The allegations, which surfaced Thursday, were denied by Murray through his personal spokesman Jeff Reading. "These false accusations are intended to damage a prominent elected official who has been a defender of vulnerable po..
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  • Senate Republicans go 'nuclear,' pave the way for Gorsuch confirmation to Supreme Court

    Senate Republicans go 'nuclear,' pave the way for Gorsuch confirmation to Supreme Court
    Republicans on Thursday cleared the way for Judge Neil Gorsuch to be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, overcoming a historic Democratic blockade by changing the rules of the U.S. Senate — a move that highlighted the fierce partisanship that has seized Congress. The long-anticipated rules change now means that all presidential nominees for executive branch positions and the federal courts need only a simple-majority vote to be confirmed by senators. The GOP decision to ram through the rules..
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  • Bannon wants a war on Washington. Now he's part of one inside the White House.

    Bannon wants a war on Washington. Now he's part of one inside the White House.
    Stephen K. Bannon — the combative architect of the nationalistic strategy that delivered President Trump to the White House — now finds himself losing ground in an internecine battle within the West Wing that pits the “Bannonites” against a growing and powerful faction of centrist financiers led by the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Less than 100 days into Trump’s chaotic presidency, the White House is splintering over policy issues ranging from taxes to trade. The daily tumult has crea..
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  • Preet Bharara on why he was fired: 'Beats the hell out of me.'

    Preet Bharara on why he was fired: 'Beats the hell out of me.'
    In this image made from a video, Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, walks down a line of applauding well-wishers on March 13, 2017, in front of the New York office where he worked until he was fired by President Trump's administration after refusing to resign. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister) NEW YORK — In his first public appearance since being fired, former U.S. attorney of Manhattan Preet Bharara on Thursday offered a brutal and sometimes humorous criti..
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  • The government is demanding to know who this Trump critic is. Twitter is suing to keep it a secret.

    The government is demanding to know who this Trump critic is. Twitter is suing to keep it a secret.
    Twitter filed a federal lawsuit on April 6 to block an order by the U.S. government demanding that it reveal who is behind an account opposed to President Trump's tough immigration policies. (Reuters) Twitter filed a lawsuit Thursday to block an order from the Department of Homeland Security that seeks to reveal the user of an account who has been critical of the Trump administration's immigration policies. Tweets from the account -- @ALT_uscis -- indicate that it is run by someone who is..
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  • The 7 inmates scheduled to die in Arkansas this month

    The 7 inmates scheduled to die in Arkansas this month
    FILE - This combination of file photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Bruce Earl Ward, left, and Don William Davis. Both men are scheduled for execution April 17, 2017. (Arkansas Department of Correction via ...
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  • What It's Like When An F-16 Fighter Crashes In Your Neighborhood

    What It's Like When An F-16 Fighter Crashes In Your Neighborhood
    On Wednesday morning, an Air National Guard F-16C Fighting Falcon fighter jet crashed 12 miles south of Washington, D.C., during a routine training mission, the Department of Defense said in a statement. The unnamed pilot, a member of the D.C. Air ...
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  • True Detective: Clinton Says Misogyny Certainly Played A Role In Her 2016 Defeat

    True Detective: Clinton Says Misogyny Certainly Played A Role In Her 2016 Defeat
    Hillary Clinton is out of the woods—and frankly, I would just wish she would stay in whatever imaginary hut she built for herself to nurse her mental wounds from her stinging defeat to Donald Trump last year and stay there. But you can’t always get what you want. The former first lady and two-time presidential loser spoke with The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof about the four reasons that sunk her presidential bid. If you thought she would be introspective, think again. This is Hillary Clin..
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