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Game on: Tragedy won't stop annual baseball game
He said that "many lives would have been lost without the heroic action" of Capitol Police officers who took down the gunman . "At this point, there's no additional threat". "I was looking right at him", Bishop told CBS Detroit radio station WWJ. "We were like sitting ducks, we had no place to run". Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., did just that before he got up and dove into the first-base dugout, wh... [Full Article...]
Obama calls Republican lawmaker after shooting at baseball field
Despite previous reports that Majority Whip Steve Scalise was in stable condition following surgery, the hospital said his condition was critical Wednesday afternoon. Police in Alexandria, VA . say five people were shot during a congressional baseball practice . "I don't want us to change what we do for a living based on this one lunatic", he said . [Full Article...]
'One down, 216 to go'
Politico and CBS News both report that the office of New York Republican Claudia Tenney, a first-term representative, received an email with the subject line "One down, 216 to go", an apparent reference to the number of House members who voted in favor of the American Health Care Act. [Full Article...]
UK govt a minority on eve of Brexit talks
According to EU law, the United Kingdom will be removed from the union at that time even if negotiations have failed to produce an exit deal. The pound fell 2 cents agains the U.S. "We have made good progress but the discussions continue", said DUP leader Arlene Foster. "And our leader needs to take stock as well". "The Prime Minister called the election because she wanted a mandate and the mand... [Full Article...]
As Comey testimony looms, Trump to push infrastructure plan
The White House is reviewing whether to invoke executive privilege to prevent former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey from testifying before a congressional panel next week. From all reports so far, it transpires that Trump and Comey were alone in the room when Trump asked Comey to let the Russian Federation probe go. [Full Article...]
Council confirms it received complaints over Grenfell Tower refurbishment
David Taylor, who lives near the building, told CBC News reporter Thomas Daigle that he was awoken at 1:15 a.m.by a loud noise, then noticed "flames shooting up the side of the building". Grenfell Tower was meant to be among the jewels of an $85 million (£67 million) urban regeneration scheme carried out by the London borough of Kensignton and Chelsea. [Full Article...]
Oliver Stone On Sympathizing With Putin: Israel Is Bad Too, Y'Know
The Senate is slated to vote today on whether to impose a spate of new sanctions against Russia over allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. In the segment that made it to air, the audience cheered wildly when Colbert said, "Anything about him negative that you found?" Stone said he has always been for free speech, that Putin is a social conservative and while he again tried... [Full Article...]
Mass food poisoning, 2 die at Mosul camp for displaced
Late on Monday, Zahid al-Khatoni, an Iraqi Member of Parliament for Nineveh province, told reporters at al-Khazir-2 refugee camp, some 50 km in east of Mosul, that some 900 displaced people from Mosul, many were women, children and elderly, fell ill after "eating their Ramadan breakfast which were presented by a Qatari humanitarian organization". [Full Article...]