Dallas photographer took this chilling photo moments before shooting
CNN's Dianne Gallagher reports on Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Fox, who captured a photo of the suspected gunman just before shots were fired at a federal building in Dallas.
June 19, 2019
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Saudi Arabia behind Khashoggi's 'deliberate, premeditated execution,' report says
Saudi Arabia was responsible for the "deliberate, premeditated execution" of Jamal Khashoggi, according to the first independent investigation into the journalist's death. CNN has reached out to the Saudi government for a response to the released report.
June 19, 2019
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Mitch McConnell: Obama elected to make up for 'sin of slavery'
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he opposes paying reparations for slavery, arguing "none of us currently living are responsible" for what he called America's "original sin." CNN's Don Lemon discusses with Rev. Robert W. Lee and Vann Newkirk on CNN Tonight. #CNN #News
June 19, 2019
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Cuomo on Central Park 5: Trump is clinging to a proven injustice
CNN's Chris Cuomo discusses President Trump once again declining to apologize when asked about his actions following the Central Park Five incident, insisting that some of the prosecutors believe the lawsuit was mishandled. #CNN #News
June 18, 2019
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Trump voter's false claim surprises CNN reporter
CNN's Ed Lavandera talks with President Trump's supporters in Florida ahead of his 2020 campaign kickoff.
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June 18, 2019
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez facing backlash for 'concentration camps' comments
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is under fire for comparing the conflict at the US-Mexico border to "concentration camps" on Instagram. #CNN #News
June 18, 2019
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Trump: Patrick Shanahan out of confirmation process to be defense secretary
President Donald Trump tweeted that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has "decided not to go forward with his confirmation process." CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports. #CNN #News
June 18, 2019
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Pompeo: Trump doesn't want war with Iran
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said President Trump does not want war with Iran, adding that the Iranians are being "woefully misled" by the country's leaders. #CNN #News
June 18, 2019
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US sending additional troops to Middle East amid Iran tensions
The US will send 1,000 additional US forces and more military resources to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"In response to a request from the US Central Command for additional forces, and with the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in consultation with the White House, I have authorized approximately 1,000 additional troops for defensive purposes to address air, naval, and ground-based threats in the Middle East," acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said in a statement.
"The recent Iranian attacks validate the reliable, credible intelligence we have received on hostile behavior by Iranian forces and their proxy groups that threaten United States personnel and interests across the region," Shanahan said, adding that the "United States does not seek conflict with Iran."
Shortly before the announcement the Pentagon released a detailed set of photos that it said showed Iranian boats removing a mine from one of two tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman on June 13. The US attributes the attack to Iran. Tehran has vigorously denied the charge.
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June 18, 2019
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Mexican troop deployment falling short of promise
Mexican officials say troop deployments to the Guatemala border have begun, but lag behind initial estimates. Meanwhile, humanitarian workers say more troops will only make things worse. CNN's Michael Holmes reports.
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June 18, 2019
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Donald Trump has never stopped running for president
Donald Trump is officially running for a second term in 2020. But he’s had his eye on the presidency for a long time.
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
The 78 wildest lines in Donald Trump's epic ABC interview
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/politics/donald-trump-george-stephanopoulos-abc/index.html
Trump launches immigration rant in bid to rekindle 2016 campaign rage
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/18/politics/donald-trump-election-2020-orlando-florida/index.html
Four Years Ago Trump Was Seen as a Sideshow. Now He Is the Show.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/us/politics/trump-reelection-campaign-kickoff.html
Trump campaign fires multiple pollsters after unflattering numbers leak
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/16/politics/trump-fire-campaign-pollsters-numbers-leak/
Here are the 23 Democrats who have said they're running for president
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/politics/2020-democrats-running-for-president/index.html
Why Joe Biden Thinks He Can Ignore His Many Democratic Rivals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/us/politics/joe-biden-2020-democrats.html
Trump tells supporters to ignore polls that say he's losing
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/politics/trump-2020-kickoff-pollster-firing/index.html
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June 18, 2019
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Erin Burnett: This is why US allies don't trust Mike Pompeo
CNN's Erin Burnett breaks down President Donald Trump's decision to send 1,000 additional US forces and more military resources to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran.
#CNN #News
June 18, 2019
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Cuomo blasts McConnell: His priorities are bent out of shape
CNN's Chris Cuomo chastises Congress and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for playing politics over funding healthcare for 9/11 first responders, saying they have repeatedly needed to be shamed into doing the right thing. #CNN #News
June 17, 2019
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Internet chokes on President Trump's reaction to Mulvaney's cough
President Donald Trump kicked out acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney for coughing and ordered Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci to get a penicillin shot. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on the Germophobe-in-Chief. #CNN #News
June 17, 2019
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Pentagon releases images supporting claim Iran behind tanker attacks
CNN's Erin Burnett breaks down President Donald Trump's decision to send 1,000 additional US forces and more military resources to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran. #CNN #News
June 17, 2019
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Trump campaign fires pollsters after unflattering numbers
President Donald Trump's campaign fired several pollsters after internal polling numbers that showed the President lagging behind Democratic presidential candidates in key states were made public, according to multiple sources. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports. #CNN #News
June 17, 2019
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Senior Iranian official has warning for US
The Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad warned that the United States and Iran are headed toward “a confrontation which is very serious for everybody in the region.”
In an exclusive interview with Christiane Amanpour, the Ambassador reacted to escalated tensions between the two countries, as the United States continues to blame Iran for an attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
Ambassador Baeidinejad, a senior Iranian official within the Foreign Ministry, denied the allegations, and cautioned the White House would be “very sorry” to underestimate Iran, should a military conflict ensue.
When asked who else could be responsible for the attack, Baeidinejad pointed to other countries in the region “who have invested heavily, billions and billions of dollars to draft the United States into a military conflict with Iran.”
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June 17, 2019
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Mohamed Morsy, ousted Egyptian president, dies in court
Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy, who was the country's first democratically elected leader, has died, according to Egyptian state media.
Morsy, 67, had been on trial for an espionage case when he suffered a heart attack, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram online reported.
He had been granted a request to make a statement before he fainted and passed away, state media said. The former president has been taken to an unnamed hospital, it added.
Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/middleeast/mohamed-morsy-dies-egypt-intl/index.html
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June 17, 2019
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NYT reveals youngest known child separated at border
A New York Times investigation reveals a 4-month-old baby taken from his father, who was seeking political asylum, might be the youngest known child separated from his family at the US-Mexico border.
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June 17, 2019
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Iran says it will break the low-grade uranium stockpile limit
Iran is ramping up enrichment of low-grade uranium and will pass the limit it is allowed to stockpile under the nuclear deal in 10 days, a spokesman for the Iranian atomic agency announced. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.
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June 17, 2019
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Who is the most prolific scorer in world football's biggest competition? If you said Cristiano Ronaldo, you would be wrong. If you said Lionel Messi, you would also be wrong. That title belongs to Brazilian great, Marta, who has now scored more goals at the World Cup than any man or woman. She netted a penalty yesterday, securing a 1-0 over Italy and her 17th Women's World Cup goal, taking over Germany's Miroslav Klose as the outright leading scorer in World Cup history. Marta, a six-time FIFA Player of the Year and widely regarded as the greatest woman to ever play the game, celebrated her feat by kissing her boot. (📸: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images via @cnnsport)
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This month, Selah Schneiter, a 10-year-old from Colorado, successfully scaled the 3,000-foot “Nose” route of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. With help from her dad, Schneiter took five days to complete the notoriously difficult climb. “Our big motto was, ‘How do you eat an elephant?’ Small bites. One pitch at a time, one move at a time, one day at a time,” Selah told CNN affiliate KFSN. (📸: Schneiter family)
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It was a giant leap for womankind. On June 18, 1983, at age 32, Sally Ride launched into the atmosphere aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, becoming the first American woman, and the youngest American, to go into space. When she joined the space program in the 1970s, NASA was still overwhelmingly male, so adjustments had to be made before her first flight. In one often reported anecdote, the male engineers tasked with planning a makeup kit asked Ride how many tampons she might need for a weeklong journey. “Is 100 the right number?” Ride replied: “No. That would not be the right number.” Ride, who died in 2012, was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013. (📸: @NASA)
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday stopped by the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ landmark in New York. The bar is celebrating #PrideMonth and marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, a series of violent confrontations between the bar's patrons the city's police that became a turning point in the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Biden, who is running for president, bought a round of drinks for everyone at the bar, according to Will Garden, who captured this photo and videos. (📸: @alsoknownasbaby)
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This is Mangal. Until the age of two, Mangal was Madina, one of seven daughters chosen by her parents to live as a boy under an Afghan tradition called bacha posh, a Dari term that translates to dressed as a boy. In Afghanistan's deeply patriarchal society, sons are highly valued over daughters -- to the point where a family is deemed incomplete without a boy, says Nadia Hashimi, author of the best-selling 2014 bacha posh novel The Pearl That Broke Its Shell. The transition is temporary, and bacha posh children are expected to shed their male identities once they hit puberty and return to living as girls -- something that doesn't always come easily. I made my daughter like a boy to serve me food and water when I am working in the desert, Mangal's father told CNN. The centuries-old tradition says much about the discrimination faced by Afghan girls quite literally from the moment they're born. #AsEquals
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Follow ➡️ @cnnclimate ➡️ This incredible photo shows a team of sled dogs wading through flood water on what is normally frozen sea ice. It shows the reality of Greenland's melting ice sheet -- the second largest on the planet -- in what's been predicted will be a record year for ice loss. The picture was taken by Steffen Olsen, a scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute, during a routine mission in northwest Greenland to retrieve weather monitoring tools placed by his colleagues on the sea ice. But, because of the flood water, he couldn't find them. Thomas Mote, a research scientist at the University of Georgia who studies Greenland's climate, told CNN last week that while previous melt periods occurred in 2007, 2010 and 2012, we didn't see anything like this prior to the late 1990s. Worsening heavy melts like this could have a major effect on rising sea levels, one of the most dangerous effects of climate change, that could drive millions of people living in coastal communities from their homes. Photo: Steffen M. Olsen / AP
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The residents of Sommarøy, meaning “summer island, off the northwest coast of Norway have a slightly unconventional relationship with time. After a long, dark winter, the island is treated to 69 straight days of uninterrupted daylight from mid-May to late July. “In the middle of the night, which city folk might call ‘2 a.m.,’ you can spot children playing soccer, people painting their houses or mowing their lawns, and teens going for a swim,” said Kjell Ove Hveding. Islanders are hoping that by formally recognizing their home as a “time-free” zone they can be free of traditional opening hours and to introduce flexibility in school and working hours. (📸: Courtesy Visit Norway)
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This Monterey Cypress tree 🌳 in La Jolla, California, which Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, could see from his mountaintop home, has fallen. The tree was estimated to be about 80 to 100 years old, and was thought to have inspired the author to write the 1971 children’s book “The Lorax.” The city plans to plant a replacement in the area, according to a spokesman for the San Diego Parks and Recreation Department. (📸: SherryVSmith_Images/iStockphoto/Getty Images)
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A Confederate statue in Nashville's Centennial Park was vandalized late Sunday night with red paint spelling out the words They were racists over the names of more than 500 soldiers who fought in the Civil War, according to CNN affiliate WZTV. Police were reviewing security footage in the search for suspects. (📸: Mark Humphrey/AP)
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Last week, Greenland lost an estimated 2 billion tons of ice in a single day—an unusually large melt for the middle of June, researchers said. Greenland's melting season began a month earlier than usual this year, and “all signs seem to be pointing to a large melt season,” said James Mote, a research scientist. While such a sudden spike in melting is not unprecedented, he said, we've seen a sequence of these large melt seasons, starting in 2007, that would have been unprecedented earlier in the record. For more, follow @cnnclimate. (📸: Brice Laine/CNN)
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A man offered “Dad Hugs” at the Pittsburgh Pride parade and he impacted a lot more people than he expected to. Wearing a shirt with Free Dad Hugs in large print, Scott Dittman says he gave out hundreds of hugs, some of them super happy and others less so. One man who saw Dittman embraced him and sobbed into his arms, Dittman said. The man had been kicked out at age 19 and hadn't spoken to his parents since. In a Facebook post after the parade, Dittman encouraged parents to love and accept their children. Imagine that your child feels SO LOST FROM YOU that they sink into the arms of a complete stranger and sob endlessly just because that stranger is wearing a shirt offering hugs from a dad. Think of the depths of their pain. Try to imagine how deep those cuts must be, he wrote. Please don't be the parent of a child that has to shoulder that burden. I met WAY too many of them, of all ages, today.
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Drone footage shows the massive scale of Sunday’s protests in Hong Kong, where organizers said nearly 2 million people took to the streets to march against a controversial extradition bill. As the black-clad demonstrators marched, many demanded that the city’s leader, Carrie Lam, step down. Lam on Saturday suspended the bill, which would allow suspects in the semi-autonomous city to be extradited to mainland China, but stopped short of scrapping it permanently.
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