PoliticsYahoo NewsTrump fumes after NYT report suggests he didn’t know ‘basic elements’ of Senate health care bill
President Trump is fuming over a New York Times report that suggested he doesn’t understand some key points of the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. “The failing @nytimes writes false story after false story about me,” Trump tweeted. The failing @nytimes writes false story after false story about me.
PoliticsYahoo NewsGOP senators mull cutting tax break for wealthy
Republican senators seeking to retool their troubled health care bill are considering dropping?a tax break on investments for higher-income families in order to expand access to subsidies for health care coverage. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told the Washington Examiner that Republican leadership will?explore his idea of cutting the 3.8 percent tax break on investment income for families making more than $250,000 per year. The extra money could be used to expand access to subsidies for the health insurance exchanges to spouses of people who receive health insurance through their job but are ineligible for coverage.
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Congressman: Healthcare Might Not Be in Trump's 'wheelhouse'
Representative Charlie Dent, R-PA, speaks about Republicans attempts to pass Healthcare legislation and he believes that the work should be from the center out.
NewsAssociated PressCalifornia sheriff deputy mending from gunshot wound to face
Alex Ladwig, a 25-year-old Sacramento County sheriff's deputy, was working an evening rush-hour shift at a transit station when, without warning, he found himself fighting for his life. The four-year Sheriff's Department veteran was alone and working overtime at a Sacramento station when authorities say he approached 27-year-old Nicory Marquis Spann on the lower level shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday. It's not clear why he did so, but Ladwig soon radioed his colleagues for help, saying he was in a fight.
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Islamic State Revenues Down 80 Percent from 2015
The Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate is no more, according to an Iraqi military spokesman, and a new report on the group’s shrinking revenue suggests he might be right. The group’s apparent collapse is backed up a study released Thursday morning that found three years after Islamic State declared its caliphate on parts of Iraq and Syria, it has lost 80 percent of its revenue and roughly two thirds of its territory. The report, by IHS Markit, a London-based information and analytics group, found the Islamic State’s average monthly revenue has fallen dramatically from $81 million in the second quarter of 2015 to $16 million in the second quarter of 2017 — an 80 percent drop.
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'Common Sense': Trump's 'Morning Joe' tweets; health care and honoring the Fourth of July
ABC News Chief Political Analyst Matt Dowd answers your questions and sorts through the political noise.
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Wildfires in Arizona, California, Utah force hundreds from their homes
A wildfire burning Wednesday through a dense Arizona forest has forced hundreds of people from their homes, closed a major road and created a huge plume of smoke over the same area devastated by a blaze that killed 19 firefighters four years ago. The fire near the small city of Prescott, fanned by 35 mph (56 kph) winds, has charred more than 28 square miles (73 square kilometers. More than 500 firefighters were battling the blaze.
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Cardinal Pell Makes Statement Following Announcement of Charges
Cardinal George Pell spoke of his innocence and said he is looking forward to having his day in court after Australian authorities charged him with historical sexual offences.
WorldReutersBritish police officer tells how he took on London Bridge attackers
A police officer who tried to stop three militants as they attacked people on London Bridge earlier this month described on Wednesday how he took on the men armed with just his baton despite being repeatedly stabbed and temporarily blinded. The three attackers rammed a hired van into pedestrians on the bridge late on June 3 before going on the rampage through the bustling Borough Market area, where they slit throats and stabbed people, killing eight. Police Constable Wayne Marques said he had heard screams coming from London Bridge and when he went to investigate saw people being attacked.
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Trump’s lawyers fail to follow through on threats to Comey
President Trump’s lawyers, after rethinking their legal?strategy, have?shelved plans for now to file complaints accusing former FBI Director James Comey of?leaking confidential information about his conversations with the president, according to two sources familiar with the lawyers’ plans. The decision to back away from repeated public threats to launch an all-out legal assault on Comey reflects a significant tactical retreat for Trump’s legal team. It was prompted by concerns that such a move might?antagonize special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties to Trump’s presidential campaign, the sources said.
PoliticsYahoo NewsW.Va. Sen. Capito’s difficult journey to ‘no’
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced Tuesday she was against the current version of the Senate GOP health care bill. In an exchange that was filmed by someone else in the room and later posted on Facebook , where it has been viewed more than 5 million times, Hill showed the senator photos of Amy before and after her diagnoses, when she was in the hospital undergoing treatment.
PoliticsYahoo NewsReporter who exploded at Sarah Huckabee Sanders during White House briefing: ‘We can’t take the bullying anymore’
The reporter who unloaded on White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during Tuesday’s briefing says that he’s “had enough” of being “bullied” by President Trump’s administration. “We can’t take the bullying anymore,” Brian Karem, a reporter for the Sentinel Newspapers, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday. “We’ve been called the enemy of the people from that White House.
NewsInternational Business TimesChild Found Dead In Car, Couple Living Inside Vehicle Arrested
A woman and her boyfriend, reportedly living out of their SUV, were arrested in Rancho Cordova, California after the woman’s 3-year-old daughter was found dead in the car, CBS-affiliate KOVR reported?Wednesday. The girl’s biological mother, 27-year-old Angela Phakhin, and her boyfriend 46-year-old?Untwan Smith, were arrested after police discovered Smith had an outstanding warrant in Arkansas. A Sacramento County Sheriff press release described her as “unresponsive.” She was pronounced dead at the scene.
ScienceMashableNASA finds signs of ancient 'Niagara Falls' of lava on Mars
Sure, NASA has found signs of ancient water on Mars multiple times over the years, but now it's time to talk about something that's significantly more badass: molten Martian lava.? NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken photos of a part of
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Chicago charges show challenge of police code of silence
Since late 2015, the public has known that police who witnessed the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald described a scene starkly different than the one that later emerged on video of a white officer pumping 16 bullets into the black teenager. The announcement Tuesday that three officers have been charged with lying about that night raises questions about why it took so long to bring charges and underscores how tough it is to battle the code of silence long associated with the Chicago Police Department and other law enforcement agencies across the country. "Even though the police brass had seen this video, knew what was on it, each of the reports of these officers was approved all the way up the chain of command," said Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who has studied the department and was part of the legal team that fought the city over its refusal to release the video.
NewsReutersProsecutor, governor spar over death penalty in Florida's top court
Aramis Ayala, a Democrat who took office in January, sued the Republican governor this spring over his decision to take her off two dozen murder cases. Scott says Florida state attorneys should "prosecute individuals to the fullest extent of the law," including the death penalty.
WorldReutersSearch begins in Pakistan for two missing on world's ninth-highest mountain
A ground team began searching for Alberto Zerain Berasategi from Spain and Mariano Galvan from Argentina but helicopters could not join the search effort due to poor weather, said Karrar Haidri, spokesman for the Alpine Club of Pakistan. "In such weather conditions and without adequate food supply, survival appears unlikely but there was the case of Tomaz Humar a few years ago," Haidari said, adding that rescue officials are doing everything possible to find the men. Slovenian mountaineer Humar was trapped on Nanga Parbat for six days in 2005 before army helicopters found him trapped under a ledge at a height of nearly 6000 meters.
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German audience cheers as US commerce secretary speech is cut off
The US Commerce Secretary’s speech was cut off for going too long and a German audience cheered and applauded the move. Wilbur Ross was addressing the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party conference in Berlin via video when his feed abruptly ended after 20 minutes due to time constraints. The crowd laughed and cheered at the organiser's decision to cut him off as they waited for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, sitting on stage in front of the video screen, to speak.
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Through darkness to light: Photographs along the Underground Railroad
In the decades prior to the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In “Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad,” a traveling exhibition which opened June 23 at the Griot Museum of Black History American photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images taken in the dead of night that reveal historical sites, cities and places that freedom-seekers passed through, including homes of abolitionists who offered them sanctuary.
WorldAFPHong Kong activist Joshua Wong detained by police?
Hong Kong student pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong was detained by police on Wednesday after an anti-China protest ahead of a visit by President Xi Jinping. Wong was among around 30 protesters who had staged a three-hour sit-in at a harbourfront statue and were led away into police vans. Xi's visit this week marks 20 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain and comes at a time when fears are growing that Beijing is tightening its grip on the semi-autonomous city.
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Girl, 4, Fatally Struck by Houseboat, Father's Legs Severed as He Tried to Save Her: Cops
A little girl is dead and her father has been left disfigured after cops say a houseboat ran over them while the pair was swimming in a Texas lake last week. As Kaitlyn's father, Patrick Oliver, tried to save her, his legs became mangled in the boat's propeller, forcing doctors to later amputate them both, KWTX reports.
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Massive Wildfire Ravages California Coast
The fast-moving fire began at around 3.30 p.m. local time on Monday and is currently only 60 percent contained, according to California's fire service
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Tillerson Lashes Out At White House Aide Johnny DeStefano: Report
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lost his cool with a White House official over delays in getting the appointment of his proposed nominees for State Department positions, Politico reported Wednesday. The episode left other officials stunned and prompted senior White House aide Jared Kushner to call the outburst unprofessional, the report added. The incident reportedly took place in Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’ office June 23 in the presence of Priebus, Kushner, and Margaret Peterlin, the secretary of state’s chief of staff.
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The Latest: ACLU condemns destruction of Arkansas monument
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas is condemning the destruction of a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol, and says it's still committed to having the display struck down in the courts. The ACLU of Arkansas' executive director, Rita Sklar, said Wednesday the group strongly condemns any illegal act of destruction or vandalism. Police arrested an Arkansas man and said he intentionally drove his vehicle into the Ten Commandments monument, which had been installed just a day earlier.
