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Britain to hold special two-year parliament session to tackle Brexit
More than two thousand companies have gathered for The Paris Air Show, which gets underway today. He added that the scheduled Brexit talks were an important milestone since then. Ruth Davison, the Scottish Tory party leader, is another prominent soft Brexiteer. With Britain's negotiations on the terms of its departure from the European Union set to begin on Monday, the country risks skills sho... [Full Article...]
Scalise shooter went to Washington to "fix the tax system", wife says
James Hodgkinson , the man who shot Rep. Steve Scalise and several other during an early morning baseball practice on Wednesday, had a list with the names of several other congressmen, CBS News reports. The gunman, who was an ardent supporter of failed Democrtic candidate Bernie Sandrs, frequently criticised both President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on his Facebook page. [Full Article...]
Trump confirms he is under investigation in Russian Federation inquiry
President Donald Trump suggested that there was some hypocrisy in Rosenstein's involvement in a tweet on Friday, saying "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!" A week after Comey's firing, Mueller was appointed as special counsel to lead the probe. [Full Article...]
Macron's party wins majority in parliamentary polls
Le Pen said she won with about 58 percent of the vote Sunday in Henin-Beaumont in northern France . She lauded him for winning a "clear parliamentary majority" in elections Sunday, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said. It is also entirely unexpected: Mr Macron was unknown three years ago and initially given little chance of emerging as president, but he and his 15-month-old Republique en Ma... [Full Article...]
PM May nears DUP deal
The BBC reported DUP sources who said the talks were going well but it was thought "inappropriate" to make an announcement while events were unfolding at the Grenfell Tower in west London , where at least six have died. "I got us into this mess, and I'm going to get us out", she told her Conservative MPs. "I think there will be pressure for a softer Brexit", Mr Cameron added, saying that Parl... [Full Article...]
Happ pitches into seventh as Blue Jays beat White Sox
Pelfrey (3-5) earned his second road win of the season, limiting Toronto to one run and four hits in a season high-tying six innings. RHP James Shields (1-0, 1.62 ERA) is scheduled to be reinstated from the disabled list to start the finale Sunday of the three-game series as the White Sox try for a three-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. [Full Article...]
GOP, Dem governors call for changes in House health bill
The bill calls for all of the state's regional mental health providers to be dissolved when Medicaid reform begins, which is expected to occur in roughly two years. Senators such as Susan Collins, Chuck Grassley , and Olympia Snowe were brought to the Oval Office for regular and repeated chats about how to find bipartisan solutions. [Full Article...]
Brexit talks left hanging as May tries to form alliance
Foster will nearly certainly ask for greater investment in Northern Ireland as part of the deal, as well as guarantees on support for pension plans and for winter fuel allowances for older people. Britain entered a sixth day of political limbo on Wednesday with Prime Minister Theresa May yet to seal a deal to prop up her minority government and facing calls to soften her stance on Brexit days be... [Full Article...]
Colleges vow to fight climate change despite U.S. leaving pact
Kerry continued, "This is only the start and I will have more to announce shortly, but make no mistake, the United States will continue to lead in the global fight against climate change ". He didn't understand that now, not then, other leaders are laughing at us. We could also view countries' historical contributions to climate change in terms of a per capita share over time. [Full Article...]
Russia says Trump is using 'Cold War rhetoric' on Cuba
Trump's new policy retains key aspects of Obama's reforms, leaving full embassies in Washington and Havana and letting US cruise and airlines continue service to Cuba , although it will make travel harder by requiring most Americans to come in groups and banning payments to military-linked businesses. [Full Article...]
Armed with a machete, robbery victim detains suspect until deputies arrive
Deputies later located the other suspects and said two men later confessed to the robbery. Surveillance video shows three men - armed with a shotguns drawn - storming the home. The two men were seen fleeing the scene in the surveillance video. Alen Beltran Vazquez, Ronier Jaurgui-Lorente, Angel Cabrera-Basulto, Jorge Valido-Leyva and Roberto Salcedo-Balanza were arrested in connection with... [Full Article...]
58 presumed dead in London tower blaze
Detectives investigating the fire at Grenfell Tower in London say new footage of the gutted building's burned-out interior shows just how hard the task of finding and identifying bodies is proving to be. The 23-year-old Alhajali is the only victim of the Grenfell Tower fire to be officially named as the hard process of identifying human remains continues. [Full Article...]
Deputy AG: 'Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations'
We do know, it's Rosenstein who appointed Bob Mueller as Special Counsel. When Trump fired Comey, Rosenstein drafted a memo accusing the FBI director of bungling the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server, and Sessions wrote a letter saying the dismissal was warranted. [Full Article...]
Shahbaz Sharif says biased JIT targetting his family
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said the Prime Minister has presented himself and the entire family for accountability. Some said that while a property deal made decades ago is being probed, cases of corruption at the provincial level should also be looked into. It had questioned Sharif's sons - Hussain and Hasan - last month over the family's alleged ... [Full Article...]
Authorities: Teen slain after leaving mosque, man arrested
The girl and several of her friends were out walking the night of June 17 when they got into an altercation with a man who drove by them. Media outlets have reported the girl's name is Nabra. Loudoun and Fairfax police jointly conducted the search, canvassing an area around Herndon for hours. She got into a dispute in a man driving a red auto . [Full Article...]
Lawyer says Trump not under investigation
What is clear is that he could order the Justice Department to ax Mueller, which may result in Rosenstein's departure and would certainly intensify the uproar over the investigation. The President, perhaps unintentionally, has focused attention on a new and serious problem with the Mueller probe. "Obstruction is criminal - there's a criminal aspect to that", committee Chairman Richard BurrRichar... [Full Article...]
Philippine troops pound Islamists as death toll crosses 300
MG520 attack helicopters and FA50 fighter jets were used in the raids, while sustained bursts of automatic gunfire could be heard in the distance, indicating the intensity of the fighting. In consolidated comments submitted to the SC, Solicitor General Jose Calida said the government received on May 18 intelligence that the Maute Group led by brothers Omarkhayam and Abdullah Maute were planning ... [Full Article...]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller Investigating Jared Kushner's Finances
Rosenstein has authority over the inquiry because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself on March 2 after revelations of previously undisclosed meetings with Russia's ambassador to Washington while he was a Trump campaign adviser. [Full Article...]
Trump lawyer says President isn't under investigation, despite tweets
Sekulow said that Trump has not been notified of any investigation and that the latest information they have is from Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Separately, a former White House lawyer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was nothing stopping Trump or his lawyers from asking Mueller whether Trump was under investigation. [Full Article...]
Macron Finalizes Election Sweep By Winning Absolute Majority In Parliament
Macron won the French presidency last month without the support of a traditional mainstream party, as his newly minted En Marche! movement helped carry him to a convincing election victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Many of Macron's lawmakers will be political novices, something which will change the face of parliament at the expense of the conservative and socialist parties which ha... [Full Article...]