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I’m not signing the compromise House immigration bill

Jeff Sessions' Bible quotation to defend separating migrant families prompts Twitter backlash
Trump's decision to separate families heats up immigration debate
United States first lady Melania Trump uncharacteristically waded into a fierce debate around immigration on Sunday, pushing for bipartisan cooperation to end the separation of migrant children from their parents at the border. -Mexico Border on June 12, 2018, near Mission, Tex. However, there is no law mandating the separation of families. Republican Senator Susan Collins of ME, condemned t... [Full Article...]
Elderly man, 9-year-old among killed in strong Japan quake
Footage on national broadcaster NHK showed flooding from burst underground water pipes, train passengers forced to exit along train lines, and schoolchildren gathering outside in precautionary evacuations. A lower 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 was registered in Kita Ward, Osaka as well as Takatsuki, Hirakata, Ibaraki and Minoo in the prefecture. [Full Article...]
Bystander kills suspect at Washington Walmart

Report faults Comey but finds no political bias

DHS Secretary Says There’s No Family Separation Policy ‘Period'

Melania Trump: US should 'govern with heart' on immigration
In the US asylum seekers have watched helplessly as their children have been taken away from them under Donald Trump's new zero tolerance immigration policy. The Trump administration's decision to separate children from their families as a way to curb illegal immigration is adding fuel to an already fiery debate over immigration. [Full Article...]
Three dead, plants and trains halted as quake rattles Osaka
NHK and other Japanese media said collapsing walls had killed an 80-year-old man and a 9-year-old girl, and that another man in his 80s was killed after being crushed by a toppling bookcase. There were no reports of abnormalities at its nuclear plants in the region. Footage on national broadcaster NHK showed flooding from burst underground water pipes, train passengers forced to exit along tr... [Full Article...]
Americans favor Trudeau over Trump on trade policy

Democrats rush to border to decry Trump's family separations

Several feared dead after Japan quake

Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon was a 'joyous and independent spirit'
Five dead following Border Patrol car chase in Texas

Giuliani: Trump won’t pardon Russian Federation probe targets now; later, who knows?

Strong Quake Rattles Japan's Osaka, Causes No Major Damage
The quake knocked over walls, broke windows and set off scattered building fires. Train service was suspended across a wide area during the morning commute. The Japan Meteorological Agency has updated the magnitude of the quake to 6.1, stronger than the initial 5.9 magnitude. Japan Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters at a hastily convened press conference that there were no imm... [Full Article...]
Melania Trump 'hates' to see children separated from families at U.S. border
Kelly, Trump's former head of Department of Homeland Security, told NPR last month the policy is one "no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long". "President Trump could stop this policy with a phone call", Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, and often an ally and golfing partner of the President's, said on CNN on Friday. [Full Article...]
Trump adviser Roger Stone reveals new meeting with Russian
Greenberg denied that he was working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the meeting and also said he did not ask for money from Stone, insisting instead that it was his friend, Alexei, who had asked for the money. Stone told the Post he rejected the officer, saying that Trump "doesn't pay for anything". Caputo also "forgot" to mention the suspicious meeting in his own congressional t... [Full Article...]
4 people die in crash involving suspected undocumented immigrants

Mexico City quake detected after Mexico's World Cup win over Germany
