GOP Senator Offers The Craziest Theory For Why Trump Didn’t Stand Up To Putin

WASHINGTON ― Democrats say the only logical explanation for Donald Trump's

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Prince Harry and Meghan visit Nelson Mandela tribute in London

Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan visited an exhibition marking 100 years since the birth of former South African President Nelson Mandela on Tuesday. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met friends and family of the anti-apartheid campaigner who died in 2013, including his grand-daughter Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela. Prince Harry visited Mandela’s cell on the island during a 2015 trip to South Africa.

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James Comey, Longtime Republican, Tells ‘All Who Care’ To Vote Democrat In November

Former FBI director and longtime Republican James Comey has urged Americans to

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Suspected Texas Serial Killer Jose Rodriguez Taken Into Custody

Houston police have arrested Jose Gilberto Rodriguez, whom they suspect of

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Democrats blast Trump for ‘squirming away’ from comments on Russian meddling

US senators have responded angrily to President Donald Trump’s attempt to backtrack on his controversial comments in Helsinki, saying he was trying to "squirm away" from his apparent support of the Russian government over the US intelligence community. Mr Trump said at a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday that he didn’t see “any reason why” Russia would have meddled in the 2016 US election – despite his own Justice Department indicting 12 Russian military officials for alleged interference. The president attempted to correct his remarks on Tuesday – after a vocal backlash from Democrats and Republicans alike – by claiming he had misspoken during the joint press conference.

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Trump in the spotlight as Republican Roby faces Alabama runoff test

U.S. Representative Martha Roby, a Republican who spurned Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, is fighting for her political life in Alabama on Tuesday in a runoff election against a former Democrat who became a Trump supporter. Roby, who has served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, finished ahead of challenger Bobby Bright in last month's Republican nominating primary but failed to reach the 50 percent of votes needed to avoid a runoff.

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MGM Resorts sues more than 1,000 victims of Las Vegas shooting

The owner of a hotel in which Los Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock stayed during his deadly rampage last year, has filed suit against more than 1,000 of his victims in an attempt to avoid liability. MGM Resorts International filed suit in Nevada and California this week against victims of the 2017 mass shooting – the deadliest in US history. The suit does not seek compensation from victims, but seeks to prevent future lawsuits against the company from moving forward, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported.

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Trump on Twitter (July 17): NATO, Putin

The following statements were posted to the verified Twitter accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS. @realDonaldTrump : - Thank you @RandPaul, you really get it! "The President has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations - what's he supposed think?" [0859 EDT] - I had a great meeting with NATO. NATO was weak, but now it is strong again (bad for Russia).

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Iran 'preparing' to enrich if nuclear deal fails: official

Iran is ready to boost its uranium enrichment to higher levels if talks fail with Europe on salvaging the nuclear deal, a top official said Tuesday. "We have of course adopted some measures in order to prepare the ground for eventually increasing the level of enrichment if it is needed and if the negotiations with the Europeans fail," Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman and vice-president of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, told a news conference in Tehran. "We are of course continuing to carry out and implement our obligations based on the JCPOA," he said, referring to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that put strict limits on its atomic programme in return for sanctions relief.

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Ohio executes killer who stabbed man he met in bar in 1985

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A weeping inmate apologized for choking and fatally stabbing a man he met in a bar in 1985 moments before he was put to death Wednesday in the first Ohio execution in nearly a year.

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Cold, Hunger and Sleeplessness. Immigrant Children Describe Dire U.S. Detention Conditions

Advocates said the government isn't complying with the decades-old Flores agreement, which lays out detention conditions and release requirements for immigrant children

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White House tries to clean up another Trump statement on Russia

President Trump said on Wednesday that Russia is not currently targeting the United States or its elections, contradicting his own director of national intelligence’s warning that the Kremlin is doing precisely that.

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Florida man describes shark attack in just two feet of water while surfing with his son

A Florida man has described how a shark attacked him in just two feet of water as he was surfing with his son. Dustin Theobald, 30, had been lying on a surfboard at Fernandina Beach on the Atlantic coast of Florida when he said he felt something pull at his foot. “I touched its head, I could feel it was rough skin,” he told Fox News, adding: “It wasn’t like a fish skin.

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Bill Browder Responds To 'Ludicrous' Putin Threat Against Him

William Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital and anti-Kremlin activist, found

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Obama Warns In Mandela Speech That 'Strongman Politics Are Ascendant'

Former President Barack Obama offered a sobering and alarming view of the

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Ohio death row inmate Robert Van Hook scheduled to be executed on Wednesday

Death row inmate Robert Van Hook is set to be executed on Wednesday for the

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Deadly Ferguson Fire Threatens Yosemite National Park Communities

A wildfire near Yosemite National Park is expected to grow worse in the coming

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Thai cave boys to leave hospital, speak to media

Twelve boys and their football coach who survived a highly dangerous and dramatic rescue from a flooded cave in Thailand are preparing to leave hospital and speak to the media for the first time. The "Wild Boars" football team are being discharged a day earlier than announced, with authorities hoping a question and answer session will satisfy -- at least temporarily -- the intense media speculation that has accompanied their epic underground ordeal, before they head home later Wednesday. "The reason to hold this evening press conference is so media can ask them questions and after that they can go back to live their normal lives without media bothering them," Thailand's chief government spokesman Sunsern Kaewkumnerd told AFP.

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Russian warship ‘carrying £100 billion in gold’ discovered off South Korea

A South Korean salvage team has discovered the wreck of a Russian warship that was sunk in a naval battle 113 years ago and is believed to still contain a trove of gold bullion and coins worth 150 trillion won, or £100 billion. The Russian Imperial Navy cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi was discovered at a depth of more than 1,400 feet about one mile off the South Korean island of Ulleungdo. A joint team made up of experts from South Korea, Britain and Canada discovered the wreck on Sunday and used two manned submersibles to capture footage of the vessel, with the company behind the discovery promising to use a percentage of the money to fund the construction of a railway line linking Russia and South Korea through North Korea. The video includes images of extensive damage to the vessel caused in an encounter with Japanese warships in May 1905, along with cannons and deck guns encrusted with marine growth, the anchor and the ship’s wheel.  The identity of the 5,800-ton warship was confirmed when the crew of one of the submersibles were able to read the name on the stern.  “The body of the ship was severely damaged by shelling, with its stern almost broken, and yet the ship’s deck and sides are well preserved”, the Seoul-based Shinil Group said in a statement.  Launched in St Petersburg in August 1883, the Dmitrii Donskoi was designed as a commerce raider and fitted with both a full set of sails and a coal-fired engine. The ship spent most of its career operating in the Mediterranean and the Far East and was deployed to Imperial Russia’s Second Pacific Squadron after the Japanese fleet destroyed the majority of Russia’s naval power in the Far East in the opening salvoes of the 1904 Russo-Japanese War.  The Dmitri Donskoii was sunk in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese war Credit: Shinil Group The squadron was intercepted by the Japanese fleet in May 1905 and decimated at the Battle of Tsushima. Assigned to protect the transport ships at the rear of the formation, the Dmitrii Donskoi managed to evade the attacking force, but was later intercepted steaming for the Russian port of Vladivostok.  Haul: the Imperial Navy Cruiser Dmitri Donskoii sank more than a century ago with - it is thought - 5,500 boxes of gold bars and coins still on board Credit: Shinil Group Around 60 of the 591 crew were killed and further 120 injured before Captain Ivan Lebedev anchored off the island of Ulleungdo and ordered his men ashore. The following morning, May 29, 1905, the ship was scuttled offshore and the crew were taken prisoner by Japanese landing parties. Captain Lebedev later died of his wounds.  There are reports that the Dmitrii Donskoi was carrying the fleet’s funds and went down with 5,500 boxes containing gold bars as well as a separate haul of 200 tons of gold coins. The gold was being stored in the ship's holds to stop the Japanese seizing it. Shinil Group estimates the gold would have a total value today of £101.3 billion.  Half of any treasure found on board will be handed over to the Russian government Credit: Donskoii The company says it is aiming to raise the ship in October or November. Half of any treasure found aboard the vessel would be handed over to the Russian government, the company said, while 10 percent of the remainder will be invested in tourism projects on Ulleungdo Island, including a museum dedicated to the vessel.  A portion of the rest of the treasure will be donated to joint projects to promote development in north-east Asia, the company said, such as a railway line from Russia to South Korea through North Korea. 

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Jupiter's moon count reaches 79, including tiny 'oddball'

NEW YORK (AP) — Astronomers are still finding moons at Jupiter, 400 years after Galileo used his spyglass to spot the first ones.

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