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Supreme Court makes no 2nd Amendment ruling in NY gun case
The court ruled that the city's move to ease restrictions on taking licensed, locked and unloaded guns outside the city limits, coupled with a change in state law to prevent NY from reviving the ban, left the court with nothing to decide. The justices' decision to not consider the dispute over the Second Amendment is expected to disappoint gun owners and activists, who had anticipated a major ruli... [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: Last Covid-19 patient leaves hospital in Wuhan
The northeast Chinese border province of Heilongjiang has seen large numbers of cases entering from Russian Federation. There were no signs of any worry yesterday as people packed into a flower market in Suzhou city, in east China's Jiangsu province. [Full Article...]
Poison Control Centers See An Increase In Calls Following Trump's Disinfectant Comments
He re-shared a tweet from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MDMEMA). Reckitt Benckiser, the company that manufactures the household disinfectants Dettol and Lysol, issued a statement warning people not to ingest or inject its products. [Full Article...]
Furious Bernie Sanders campaign blasts NY for canceling primary
Monday's vote delays after Cuomo cancelled a number of June 23 special elections across the state, including those for Queens borough president, a state Senate seat in central NY and an Assembly seat in the Rochester area. And our campaign communicated that we wanted to remain on the ballot. A lawyer for the Sanders campaign, Malcolm Seymour, asked the election commissioners Sunday not to cancel... [Full Article...]
Saudi-led coalition urges Yemen’s separatists to honour Riyadh peace deal
Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Hadhrami said the announcement marked an abandonment of the Riyadh agreement, adding that the STC alone "is to bear the unsafe and catastrophic consequences of such an announcement". The council's decision adds yet more complexity to the grinding war in Yemen that has pushed the Arab world's poorest nation to the brink of starvation and killed over 100,000 people. [Full Article...]
Thousands pack beaches during SoCal heat wave, prompting warnings from officials
Our primary mission is watching the water. A similar crowd was expected Saturday as the fog burns off. "I wish I can prescribe a specific date to say, 'Well, we can turn on the light switch and go back to normalcy, '" Newsom said. "There is a direct correlation between what you do this weekend and how long this will take and how many lives we will lose", Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on F... [Full Article...]
Three Civilians Reportedly Killed in Alleged Israeli Attack on Syria
These have overwhelmingly been directed against Iran and its proxies, notably the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terror group, but the IDF has also carried out strikes on Syrian air defenses when those batteries have fired at Israeli jets. Israel did not comment on the Syrian report. Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces in Syria are fighting alongside Syrian government forces. Tel Aviv frequently l... [Full Article...]
Military spending saw biggest increase in a decade in 2019
The SIPRI report revealed that India's archrival Pakistan's military expenditure rose 70 percent over the last decade to reach $10.3 billion; India's military spending over the same period of time increased 37 percent. Military expenditure in the region has risen every year since at least 1989. India's "tensions" and "rivalry" with Pakistan and China are among the main reasons for its incre... [Full Article...]