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Exit polls show a landslide victory in Mexico's Presidential Election for leftist Manuel Lopez Obrador. Obrador is set to take perhaps over 50 percent of the vote with a lead of around 20 to 30 percent over his nearest rival. Large crowds took to the streets of Mexico City during the evening in celebration.
Obrador campaigned to reform Mexico dramatically and made strong statements in opposition to US President Donald Trump. Obrador wants to end the war on drugs in Mexico within three years, saying Mexico isn't going to stop drugs entering the USA, let the USA send its army to the border to deal with the problem.
Germany's political crisis appeared to be deepening late tonight with Interior Minister Horst Seehofer saying he has offered to resign in disagreement with Chancellor Angela Merkel about closing Germany's southern border to migrants. Seehofer leads the Bavarian Christian Social Union Party, a partner party in Germany's government with Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party. One last meeting between Seehofer, who wants a closed border, and Merkel, who wants an open one, is set for Monday to avert Seehofer's resignation.
The manhunt is on after a notorious organized crime figure jailed for murder made a daring helicopter escape from a French prison near Paris on Sunday. It was the second time that Redoine Faid pulled off a prison break. Three armed men staged a diversion while a helicopter landed in the courtyard to pluck Faid and the three gunmen away. Police later found the abandoned helicopter in a area not too far from the prison. The fugitive transferred to a car and later a white van according to police. A helicopter instructor was taken hostage to be the pilot for the escape.
Oregon Republican Congressman Greg Walden says President Trump called him late Saturday saying that the President is seriously considering a pardon for Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond. The Hammonds were ordered back to federal prison for a second time in January 2016 to serve five year mandatory sentences for lighting a back fire to protect their land from a brushfire. The back fire touched on federally owned land leading to arson charges and a terrorism sentence.
Ammon Bundy, who led the Oregon Standoff protest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016 to put the plight of the Hammonds on the world stage, said Sunday that the fine of 400-thousand dollars on the Hammonds must be reversed as well as the Bureau of Land Management's control over the Hammond's right to sell their land.
President Trump tweeted over the weekend that he's contacted King Salman of Saudi Arabia and gotten his agreement to increase Saudi oil production. Gasoline prices have ticked up in the last week or so. Trump cited instability in Iran and Venezuela as reasons for the Saudis to increase their oil output.
An international effort by cave rescuers reports progress in the search for 12 members of a missing soccer team and their coach who disappeared in a cave in Thailand over a week ago. Huge pumps took water out of the cave and rescuers began laying guide ropes and air tanks inside. Rising floodwaters prevented search and rescue efforts from moving forward for days. There's hope a diving team can reach the cavern where the group is believed to be.
And police in Boise, Idaho say the suspect in the stabbing attack that injured nine people at a child's birthday party Saturday had been asked to leave the apartment complex where he temporarily lived and where the attack took place. Timmy Kinner of Los Angeles is charged with nine counts of aggravated battery and six counts of injury to a child. The apartment complex houses refugees and some were among the injured.
Oregon Republican Congressman Greg Walden says President Trump called him late Saturday saying that the President is seriously considering a pardon for Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond. The Hammonds were ordered back to federal prison for a second time in January 2016 to serve five year mandatory sentences for lighting a back fire to protect their land from a brushfire. The back fire touched on federally owned land leading to arson charges and a terrorism sentence.
Ammon Bundy, who led the Oregon Standoff protest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016 to put the plight of the Hammonds on the world stage, said Sunday that the fine of 400-thousand dollars on the Hammonds must be reversed as well as the Bureau of Land Management's control over the Hammond's right to sell their land.
President Trump tweeted over the weekend that he's contacted King Salman of Saudi Arabia and gotten his agreement to increase Saudi oil production. Gasoline prices have ticked up in the last week or so. Trump cited instability in Iran and Venezuela as reasons for the Saudis to increase their oil output.
An international effort by cave rescuers reports progress in the search for 12 members of a missing soccer team and their coach who disappeared in a cave in Thailand over a week ago. Huge pumps took water out of the cave and rescuers began laying guide ropes and air tanks inside. Rising floodwaters prevented search and rescue efforts from moving forward for days. There's hope a diving team can reach the cavern where the group is believed to be.
And police in Boise, Idaho say the suspect in the stabbing attack that injured nine people at a child's birthday party Saturday had been asked to leave the apartment complex where he temporarily lived and where the attack took place. Timmy Kinner of Los Angeles is charged with nine counts of aggravated battery and six counts of injury to a child. The apartment complex houses refugees and some were among the injured.
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