Wednesday 29 June 2016

Wednesday's Headlines: Death toll rises to 41 in Istanbul airport attack

Without Scalia, high court's term became a letdown for conservatives who had high hopes; Defying GOP orthodoxy, Trump trashes trade deals and advocates tariffs; Who will show up? Who will pay? The many unknowns of the GOP convention.; 'This is savagery': Venezuelans storming stores, attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle;
 
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Death toll rises to 41 in Istanbul airport attack
Turkish authorities combed through video and witness statements following an assault by three suicide bombers at the country's largest airport.
Without Scalia, high court's term became a letdown for conservatives who had high hopes
Cases and causes that had the right excited at the beginning of the term — challenges to affirmative action, restrictions on abortion, complaints about labor union fees, bold attacks on the way electoral districts are drawn and President Obama's use of executive power — ended either with liberal victories or draws that set no precedent.
 
Defying GOP orthodoxy, Trump trashes trade deals and advocates tariffs
Ticking through a seven-step plan to boost job growth, Donald Trump delivered an uncharacteristically disciplined address that nonetheless put him out of step with decades of conservative thinking — and at a later rally, he blamed the Trans-Pacific Partnership on "special interests who want to rape our country."
 
Who will show up? Who will pay? The many unknowns of the GOP convention.
With less than three weeks to go, Donald Trump's Republican National Convention in Cleveland is poised to be the most chaotic GOP gathering of the modern era.
 
'This is savagery': Venezuelans storming stores, attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle
On any day in cities across this oil-rich but increasingly desperate nation, crowds form to sack supermarkets, and protesters decry the skyrocketing prices and dwindling supplies of basic goods.
 
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A 30-year-old Saudi prince could reform the kingdom — or ruin it
 
Republicans' Benghazi goose chase comes up empty
 
Two years, $7 million, still no smoking gun on Clinton and Benghazi
 
I hate Donald Trump. But he might get my vote.
 
With Warren on Clinton's stump, it's double trouble for Trump
 
Young women don't care about Bill Clinton's sexual misdeeds
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Exiling Britain, Europe’s remaining leaders meet to preserve their union 
Leaders of the 27 remaining nations met in Brussels for the first pan-European gathering in decades at which Britain was not represented.
Britons stampede for Irish passports: 'I feel European'
Irish citizenship gives them a legal means of remaining part of the European Union — and living and working in its 27 member nations.
Republicans may have just forfeited half their Senate pickup chances
They had two big chances to pick off a Democratic seat. They may have just lost one in Colorado.
The Fix: Sanders just gave an amazingly condescending interview about Clinton
Someone needs to tell Bernie he lost.
The Fix: Clinton's email story gets harder and harder to believe
More revelations. Not good for Clinton.
Benghazi report finds no new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton
The final House report's overall narrative did not substantively differ from previous investigations and numerous news accounts over the years, but the Republican majority that investigated the 2012 attacks in Libya found fault with virtually every element of the executive branch response.
The world was running dangerously low on helium. This discovery allays fears about a shortage.
Although helium is perhaps best known for inflating balloons (and making your voice sound funny), it is also a critical component in many machines and industrial activities.
How North Carolina's idyllic hipster haven is being hurt by the 'bathroom bill' boycott
Ultra-liberal Asheville is feeling an economic pinch as tourists stay away in droves.
CNN's hiring of Corey Lewandowski insults the press — and women
Bringing Donald Trump's former campaign manager on board is an astonishing reward for behavior that should cause him to be shunned by respectable journalistic organizations.
This could be the start to a whole new world of chicken
Perdue, the country's third-largest chicken processor, is introducing a more humane way of killing poultry.
The days of the dreaded annual pelvic exam for women may be numbered
On Tuesday, a panel made up of medical experts that advises the government said that there's not enough evidence to support doing them for women who are healthy and not pregnant.
 
     
 
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