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Clashes between police and protesters in Ecuador today but first...
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China sent 29 warplanes into Taiwan's air defense zone today.
One of the planes a Y-20 refueling aircraft..ASIA ONE
In Santa Monica, California a jury finding Bill Cosby liable for a sexual assault in the 1970's at the Playboy Mansion.
The plantiff, Judy Huth, awarded 500,000 dollars in damages...CNN
The Director of Department of Public Safety in Texas, Steve McCraw, told a state senate hearing today that police in Uvalde, Texas could have taken out the attacker at the Robb Elementary School in three minutes.
McCraw said that officers had weapons, body armor and training and said the response of the police was an "abject failure"...BBC NEWS
THE REPUBLICAN US SENATE RUNOFF IN ALABAMA BETWEEN CONGRESSMAN MO BROOKS OF THE 'CONSERVATIVE MOVMENT' AND REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE KATIE BRITT.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WITHDREW HIS ENDORSEMENT OF BROOKS AND ENDORSED BRITT RECENTLY.
BRITT DECLARED THE WINNER OF THE RACE SHE IS LEADING BY AN ALMOST 2-1 MARGIN...NEW YORK TIMES RESULTS
The US Supreme Court ruling 6-3 that a tuition program for schools in Maine must include religious schools.
The three "Liberal" justices in the minority with Justice Sonia Sotomayor offering a dissenting opinion citing the notion of "separation of church and state"...THE HILL
That notion in the writings of Thomas Jefferson resurrected by former US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in the 1947 Everson decision blocking state support of Roman Catholic schools in New Jersey...HUGO BLACK'S WALL OF SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
Meanwhile in France today a top administrative court ruled against the wearing of the "Burkini" by Muslim women at public pools.
This ruling based on the notion that government should not favor a religion in France and be secular in nature.
A local government in Grenoble had adopted a policy that allowed the "Burkini" at public pools as well as topless females...ASSOCIATED PRESS-ABC NEWS US
POLICE, PROTESTERS CLASH IN ECUADOR-TEAR GAS USED
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Massive protests continue in Ecuador today with the military vowing to stop what they call a "grave threat" to democracy.
The protests spearheaded by indigenous people in the country...AFP FRANCE-FRANCE 24...
Large crowds on the streets of the capital city of Quito today with tear gas visible in the center of the city.
Clashes between protesters and the police. The police using tear gas and mace to break up protests....AFP FRANCE-VOICE OF AMERICA
AS US WARSHIP FIRED A WARNING FLARE AT AN IRANIAN SPEEBOAT.
PART OF AN INCIDENT WHERE THREE IRANIAN SPEEDBOATS BUZZED US NAVY SHIPS IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ BETWEEN THE PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIAN SEA...USNI NEWS (VIDEO EMBEDDED)
Iran says its arrested a cell of Israeli agents planning to kill nuclear scientists.
An Iranian prosecutor in Sistan-Baluchistan province says arrests have been made and charges will soon be laid on those in custody...TIMES OF ISRAEL
Wall Street today prices moving upwards...MARKETWATCH...
Looking at gas pump prices a slight decline locally here in the York, Pennsylvania area with 489.9 replacing 499.9 as the common price per gallon...
Meanwhile the price of barrel of oil rose slightly today to 110 dollars and 52 cents a barrel...(MARKETWATCH)
"This is the result of intrigues, lies and subversion of one man-Benjamin Netanyahu"
Those words spoken by Israel's Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman of the secularist conservative Yisrael Beytenu Party.
He spoke about the decision of Israel's current coalition government to dissolve Parliament and hold new elections in October.
Lieberman says that opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu must be prevented from returning to power...YNET NEWS ISRAEL
Politics in the USA the Republican US Senate runoff election in Alabama.
Political insider Katie Britt now with President Trump's endorsement up against "Conservative Movement" Congressman Mo Brooks who Trump unendorsed earlier this year...
POLITICS IN ALASKA THE THIRD PLACE FINISHER IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE US HOUSE SEAT PULLING OUT OF THE RACE.
AL GROSS FINISHED BEHIND SARAH PALIN AND NICK BEGICH IN THE JUNE 10TH VOTE AND WAS SLATED TO BE PART OF A FOUR WAY RANKED CHOICE VOTE IN AUGUST INVOLVING DEMOCRAT MARY PELTOLA ALONG WITH REPUBLICANS PALIN AND BEGICH.
NOW GROSS NOTING THAT TWO 'OUTSTANDING NATIVE ALASKA WOMEN' ARE IN THE RACE NAMELY DEMOCRAT MARY PELTOLA AND FIFTH PLACE FINISHER REPUBLICAN TARA SWEENEY GROSS URGING SUPPORT FOR THEM...ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
A rotating rail strike today across the United Kingdom.
Rail workers walking off the job today, Thursday and Saturday after last-minute talks failed to cut a deal.
Workers looking for pay increases that employers are unwilling to give.
The London Subway (Undergound) will also be impacted by a strike today...THE GUARDIAN UK....BBC NEWS BLOG
132 people killed in terrorist attacks in the Central African nation of Mali.
The attacks at several locations in the center of the country linked to militias associated with Al-Qaeda...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
BLOCKADE OF KALININGRAD ENCLAVE BY LITHUANIA DISCUSSED IN MOSCOW BY EUROPEAN UNION DIPLOMAT
Today in Moscow talks between the EU ambassador and Russian diplomats over the embargo on sanctioned goods Lithuania has imposed on the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad along the Baltic Sea...TASS RUSSIA...BBC NEWS
In other news...
The board of Twitter unanimously approving the takeover bid of Telsa tycoon Elon Musk...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
THE SON OF ELON MUSK DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM MR. MUSK.
IN FACT XAVIER ALEXANDER MUSK NOW WANTS TO BE RECOGNIZED AS VIVIAN JENNA WILSON TO BE KNOWN AS A FEMALE...BBC NEWS
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