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Mariana Trench: Don Walsh's son repeats historic ocean dive
BBC - 20 Jun 2020 14:45
Sixty years after his father did it first, Kelly Walsh dives to the deepest point in Earth's oceans.
The 94-year-old mayor in a race for re-election
BBC - 20 Jun 2020 03:17
Fifty years in public office has not dampened Andre Trigano's desire to be mayor of Pamiers, France.
Legal analyst equates firing to a 'Friday Night Massacre'
CNN - 20 Jun 2020 06:39
Geoffrey Berman, the powerful US attorney for the Southern District of New York who has investigated a number of associates with ties to President Donald Trump, said he will not leave his post shortly after the Departmen...
Barr Abruptly Seeks to Fire U.S. Attorney Who Investigated Trump Associates
The New York Times - 20 Jun 2020 05:58
But the United States attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, who had been leading the inquiry into Rudolph W. Giuliani, is refusing to leave his position.
Coronavirus: Airport tests may provide 'early travel quarantine release'
BBC - 20 Jun 2020 07:07
Companies involved in a trial say testing passengers for coronavirus would be a "win-win".
North Korea to send 'leaflets of punishment' over border as tensions with South rise
The Guardian - 20 Jun 2020 06:38
Regime creating piles of propaganda in retaliation for similar campaign from South amid worsening relations North Korea is gearing up to send propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defector...
Egypt calls on UN to intervene after impasse in Nile dam talks
Al Jazeera English - 20 Jun 2020 06:17
Egypt appeals for UN Security Council help on Ethiopia's Nile dam after latest round of talks ended without a deal.
North Korea plans to launch anti-South Korea leaflets in propaganda war
New York Post - 20 Jun 2020 15:16
North Korea has decided to take a leaflet out of South Korea’s playbook. Outraged officials in the Hermit Kingdom are sick of the anti-regime propaganda leaflets that have been launched in balloons and bottles by North...
J. Alexander Kueng, Minneapolis cop charged in George Floyd's death, freed on bail
New York Post - 20 Jun 2020 05:44
J. Alexander Kueng, 26, was freed from the Hennepin County Jail shortly before 7:30 p.m. Friday after meeting his bail set at $750,000, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
EU demands release of Chinese human rights lawyer jailed for four years
The Guardian - 20 Jun 2020 04:27
European Union says Yu Wensheng's right to a fair trial was not respected and also calls China national security laws in Hong Kong an 'assault' on freedom The EU has demanded the immediate release of a Chinese human righ...
Stormy Daniels says 'child predator' tried to abduct her daughter
New York Post - 20 Jun 2020 04:02
Porn star Stormy Daniels tweeted Friday that a child predator tried to abduct her nine-year-old daughter, Caden. In a series of posts on the platform, Daniels vented that she hadn’t been able to get help from police wh...
Why lockdown silence was golden for science
The Guardian - 20 Jun 2020 16:00
From acoustic engineers in Britain to marine biologists in Canada, researchers made the most of the drastic drop in noise from human activity One of the few upsides of lockdown was that, if a nightingale sang in Berkeley...
Trump tempts fate with warnings ahead of rally
CNN - 20 Jun 2020 15:47
President Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail Saturday in Tulsa with his first rally since the coronavirus pandemic began, looking to reignite support for his struggling reelection bid while sweeping aside concern...
Coronavirus Updates: Latest News and Analysis
The New York Times - 20 Jun 2020 15:39
The Australian state of Victoria is bringing back preventive measures after a sudden spike in cases. As people gathered in Tulsa, Okla., for a campaign rally by President Trump, health officials worry that the gathering ...
56% of wild animals in Vietnam's restaurants have a coronavirus, study says
New York Post - 20 Jun 2020 15:32
If trade isn't stopped, researcher warns "we would be on track to see another one of these outbreaks."
Pope Francis holds first audience for doctors, nurses since coronavirus pandemic
New York Post - 20 Jun 2020 15:28
Pope Francis held his first audience Saturday since Italy lifted its coronavirus lockdown, bringing together more than 200 doctors and nurses who battled the pandemic in the country’s hardest-hit region. Francis addres...
Anti-HS2 protesters begin 125-mile walk along proposed route
The Guardian - 20 Jun 2020 15:17
Protest walk organised by Extinction Rebellion began in Birmingham and will stop off at protest sites on way to London Eighty anti-HS2 protesters have started a 125-mile "Rebel Trail" along the route of the controversial...
Republican Jewish Coalition to spend $50K in battleground state ad buy
New York Post - 20 Jun 2020 15:09
The Republican Jewish Coalition is launching a $50,000 digital ad campaign Sunday in battleground states, pushing out a new video aimed at showcasing how the US-Israel relationship has grown under President Trump. The vi...
Protesters Demanded Police Reform. Minnesota Lawmakers Left Without Passing a Bill.
The New York Times - 20 Jun 2020 14:56
The Democratic-led House and Republican-led Senate, which had approved competing plans, failed to compromise before a weeklong special session ended.
16-year-old boy survives shark attack in North Carolina
New York Post - 20 Jun 2020 08:05
A 16-year-old North Carolina boy is recovering from a terrifying shark attack that left some 40 teeth prints in his thigh during a family trip to the Outer Banks on Thursday. Nick Arthur, who lives in Oak Ridge, NC, was ...
US Attorney Geoffrey Berman denies he is stepping down
BBC - 20 Jun 2020 06:57
Geoffrey Berman discovered he was resigning in a press release from the US Attorney-General.
Summer solstice 2020: Sensual traditions on the longest day of the year
CNN - 20 Jun 2020 06:30
Call it love. Call it romance. Call it sensuality. Go ahead and call it old-fashioned lust if you want.