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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
FIVE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR GOVENROR IN MICHIGAN INCLUDING TWO LEADING CONTENDERS KNOCKED OFF THE BALLOT.
A DEADLOCKED VOTE ON A STATE BOARD TRIGGERED THE REMOVAL OF THE FIVE CANDIDATES OVER SIGNATURE IRREGULARITIES ON NOMINATING PETITIONS.
FOUR OF THE FIVE CANDIDATES PLANNING TO APPEAL THEIR REMOVAL FROM THE BALLOT IN COURT...DETROIT FREE PRESS
LOCALLY HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA YORK COUNTY STATE REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JONES PUNISHED BY REPUBLICAN HOUSE LEADERSHIP.
JONES SUPPORTED TWO CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGERS WHO WON THE MAY 17TH PRIMARY CONTESTS IN TWO OTHER HOUSE DISTRICTS IN YORK COUNTY.
JONES TAKEN OFF OF THREE COMMITTEES HE SERVED ON AND HIS DESK MOVED TO A NEW LOCATION IN THE HOUSE CHAMBER...ABC 27 HARRISBURG
China and Russia vetoing a UN Security Council resolution imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea following recent missile tests.
13 other nations on the Security Council supported the resolution...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Higher numbers on Wall Street today the Dow Jones Industrial Average went up 516.91 points or 1.61 percent in value.
The NASDAQ rising 305.91 points or 2.68 percent in value...MARKETWATCH
USING DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO RUSSIA AND CHINA AS REASONS TO EXPLAIN ECONOMIC MALAISE, WORLD BANK PRESIDENT DAVID MALPASS SAYS IT'S:
"hard to see how we avoid a recession"
MALPASS SPOKE TO A US BUSINESS EVENT THIS WEEK ALSO CITING GLOBAL GDP FIGURES AND A DOUBLING OF ENERGY PRICES IN HIS ESTIMATION OF THE WORLD'S ECONOMIC SITUATION...BBC NEWS
First politics here in Pennsylvania the numbers continue to trickle out in the Republican US Senate Primary contest between David McCormick and Mehmet Oz.
A recount is set to start tomorrow but the Associated Press and the Pennsylvania Department of State continue to update their numbers today.
The Associated Press totals remain ahead of the Department of State's and they show as of 530 pm Thursday afternoon Eastern US time 419,617 votes for Mehmet Oz and 418,688 for David McCormick.
The Department of State tally of Mail-In Votes shows 46,257 for David McCormick and 33,329 for Mehmet Oz...PA DEPARTMENT OF STATE ELECTION RESULTS
POLICE RESPONSE TO TEXAS SCHOOL ATTACK QUESTIONED
More about the Tuesday mass murder attack at a Texas elementary school.
The attacker inside the school for 40 minutes or more while police were urged by onlookers to charge inside...IRISH INDEPENDENT...
Today police were questioned by the media about how they responded to the attack waiting some one hour before a SWAT team entered the school and killed the suspect...NEW YORK POST
ISRAEL ANGERED BY A PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PROBE THAT SAYS JOURNALIST SHIREEN ABU AKLEH WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI SOLDIERS AS SHE RAN FROM THEIR GUNFIRE.
DEFENSE MINISTER BENNY GANTZ SAYS ANY ALLEGATION THAT ISRAEL DELIBERATELY TARGETS JOURNALISTS IS A 'BLATANT LIE'...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel has told the United States it was behind the assassination of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer in Tehran last Sunday...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan backing off a planned protest in the center of Islamabad saying he and his supporters will return in six days if the government does not set a date for new elections.
Khan saying the government is trying to stir up tensions. Police were in confrontations with the supporters of Khan who overcame blockades including shipping containers to enter the center of Pakistan's capital city...DAWN-PAKISTAN
US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTHONY BLINKEN LAYING OUT A US POLICY TO COUNTER CHINA.
SPEAKING AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY BLINKEN SAYS:
"We cannot rely on Beijing to change its trajectory. So, we will shape the strategic environment around Beijing to advance our vision for an open inclusive international system"...
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV SAYS THAT THE US HAS BIOLABS IN ARMENIA, KAZAKHSTAN AND CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES...TASS RUSSIA
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
FIGHTING IN EASTERN UKRAINE AT 'MAXIMUM INTENSITY'
" VERY DIFFICULT MOMENT AT THE FRONT"
Ukraine says that Russian forces are pushing deeper into its territory amidst fighting that has reached "maximum intensity"...AFP-TIMES OF ISRAEL
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos Ukraine's foreign minister says his country's military is facing a "very difficult moment at the front" in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
In other news...
The US is seeking new sanctions on North Korea at the UN Security Council following this week's volley of missiles including an ICBM...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...China is expressing its view that the sanctions would not be useful and prefers a statement be issued by the President of the Security Council...TASS RUSSIA
An Israeli court reversing a lower court's decision in favor of four Jewish teenagers who prayed on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
The previous court ruling had angered Jordanian officials.
There is an understanding that while Jews can visit the Temple mount they cannot pray there. The area is reserved for Muslim worship...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Actor Kevin Spacey accused of four counts of sexual assault by British authorities.
The allegations involve three men Spacey is accused of assaulting in 2005 2008 and 2013.
Spacey is not in the UK and there was so comment on whether British authorities would seek Spacey's extradition to face the charges...CNN
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