A former CIA case officer who has served as top policy aide to House Republicans is launching an independent campaign for the presidency on Monday with the backing of veteran?GOP?strategists and donors determined to block Donald Trump from?getting anywhere near the White House. Feeding off mounting discontent within GOP ranks over Trump, Evan McMullin — who is resigning today?as chief policy director for the House Republican Conference — announced his campaign with an open “Letter to America” that took pointed shots at both the GOP nominee and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Ten-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated while riding what has been dubbed the world’s tallest water slide at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, police said. Caleb Schwab, the son of a state lawmaker, sustained a fatal “neck injury” at around 2:30 p.m. while riding the 168-foot-tall “Verruckt” (meaning “insane” in German) water slide, the Associated Press reports. Schwab boarded the raft with two women who were not related to him, they both suffered minor cuts and scrapes on their face in the incident.
For advice on how to stay?safe at water parks, see these tips shared by?the?International Association of Amusement Parks?and Attractions and?the Red Cross. The Kansas boy who was killed tragically at a water park on Sunday suffered a "fatal neck injury," police have revealed. Authorities in Kansas City say Caleb Schwab, the son of a state politician, was killed while riding Verrückt, a water slide dubbed the tallest on Earth.
The Turkish government has arrested or detained tens of thousands of soldiers, police officers, academics, and journalists in the wake of last month’s failed coup attempt. Some supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have a new target: a prominent Washington think tank. The Woodrow Wilson Center, a nonpartisan organization founded in 1968, is facing a wave of criticisms over its alleged — and wholly unproven — role in orchestrating last month’s failed putsch, which killed more than 200 people and injured more than 1,000.
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Japan's Emperor Akihito is set to make a rare address to the nation on Monday in remarks widely expected to signal that the 82-year old monarch wishes to abdicate -- something that hasn't happened in two centuries. Speculation about the emperor's future emerged last month with reports he had told confidantes that advancing age was making it harder to perform his ceremonial duties and that he would like to step down in a few years. After weeks of public denials the palace broke its silence on Friday, announcing that Akihito would make an address on Monday at 0600 GMT about his "feelings regarding his duties as a symbol" of the nation.
Three people who fell 30 to 45 feet from a Ferris wheel in Tennessee were responsive and answering questions Monday night, police said. The oldest of the three who fell from the ride at a county fairground is a 16-year-old girl, according to Greeneville Police Detective Capt. Tim Davis. The detective told The Greeneville Sun (http://bit.ly/2b4q77I ) officers were interviewing witnesses to determine what happened.
A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the 14-year prison sentence for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich despite his emotional plea for leniency after an appeals court had set aside part of his public corruption conviction. U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel ruled Blagojevich, 59, must remain in a Colorado prison, siding with demands by prosecutors that he serve out his original, full sentence through 2024. "I am sympathetic to ... how painful this situation is to them," Zagel said, referring to Blagojevich's family.
Constitution Daily Supreme Court correspondent Lyle Denniston explains why a little-used section of the Voting Rights Act may not have much, if any, impact on federal voter identification lawsuits. ?– Excerpt from a decision July 29 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, striking down a North Carolina law requiring a photo ID to be able to vote, along with other restrictions on access to voting.? The court ruled that the state legislature had passed those limitations with the specific intent of discriminating against black voters.? The decision came in the case of North Carolina Conference of NAACP v. McCrory. ?State officials have said they plan to take the case to the Supreme Court soon.
A suicide bomber killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens in an attack that struck a gathering of Pakistani lawyers on the grounds of a government-run hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, police and doctors said. Nearly 100 lawyers had come to the hospital in the heart of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, after the body of their colleague, prominent attorney Bilal Kasi was brought there. The lawyers gathered at the Quetta Civil Hospital to express their grief as is common with public figures.
Seeking to rebound after one of the rockiest weeks of his campaign, Donald Trump on Monday turned his attention back to the economy, delivering a major?policy address in which he cast himself as a change agent who could create new jobs and wealth for struggling Americans. Speaking to the Detroit Economic Club, Trump cited the city of Detroit as a “living, breathing example” of what he called Hillary Clinton’s failed economic?policies, arguing that she supports higher taxes and failed business regulations that drove the Motor City into a slump. “She is the candidate of the past,” Trump declared.
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Julie Faith Strauja, a mother of three from Forest Falls in San Bernardino County, Calif., applied for a depredation permit from the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife after the bear tried to enter her home for the third day in a row. Strauja has since faced the wrath of her fellow Forest Falls residents, receiving death threats and even having her address posted on social media.
A South Carolina girl has died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a river. Hannah Collins, 11, was pronounced dead Friday, just three days after health authorities said a?Naegleria fowleri?infection — the second in the Carolinas?this year — had been confirmed. Officials didn't identify Hannah, but said they believed the patient had been exposed to the single-celled organism?while swimming in the Edisto River in Charleston County on July 24.
The data recorder from the cargo ship El Faro, which sank near the Bahamas during a Caribbean hurricane last October, has been recovered, offering possible answers about why the vessel went down, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday. A U.S. Coast Guard panel in May revealed the ship's captain intended to avoid the brewing storm when he departed, but may have had outdated weather data.
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A Chinese tourist got tangled up in the red tape of Germany's migrant influx by mistake and was stuck in a refugee home for nearly two weeks, the Red Cross said on Monday. Officials thought the 31-year-old backpacker, who spoke neither German nor English, "needed help" after landing in Stuttgart airport in southwestern Germany on July 4, Christoph Schluetermann of the German Red Cross told AFP. The man, who had lost his wallet, was taken to a reception centre in the nearby town of Heidelberg, where he unwittingly filled out an asylum request form, following the local authorities' instructions, Schluetermann said.
The international charity World Vision said on Monday that Israel has accused the charity's Gaza Strip director of funneling what appears to be an impossible sum of money to Hamas. Israel's Shin Bet security agency said Mohammed el-Halabi siphoned about $7.2 million a year to the Islamic militant group over a period of five years. The security agency said this is roughly 60 percent of World Vision's total Gaza budget.
Checking it out, they found themselves at the door of 84-year-old Jole and 94-year-old Michele, who'd been married for nearly 70 years. According to a Facebook post by the Roman police headquarters (the Questera di Roma), Jole and Michele had simply been watching the news. Between the constant media cycle of terrorist attacks, child abuse and the like, Jole ended up having a emotional breakdown loud enough for the cops to respond.
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Hillary Clinton doesn't appear all that interested in making scenic stops on her state-to-state quest to become president. The Democratic nominee is instead programming her GPS to take her on the quickest route to collect the 270 Electoral College votes she needs to win the White House. With three months until Election Day, Clinton's campaign is focused on capturing the battleground states that have decided the most recent presidential elections, not so much on expanding the map.
In his speech on the economy Monday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump touched on one of his favorite topics: the supposedly huge number of Americans who don’t have a job. Lamenting “a silent nation of jobless Americans,” Trump rattled off a string of well-worn statistics that he’s also cited in stump speeches and interviews. “Fifty-eight percent of African-American youth are either outside the labor force or not employed.
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President Barack Obama’s seventh and final summer vacation at Martha’s Vineyard has begun with hopes of getting in some relaxing time with the first family before the busy fall leading up to November’s presidential election. Obama will fill the next two weeks with leisurely rounds of golf, beach outings, bike rides and hikes with his wife and daughters, and dinner with Mrs. Obama and their friends at some of the island’s top restaurants. Congress is also on an extended summer break from Washington, something the White House has chided it for as the nation deals with the Zika virus making its way to Florida.
A witness to the tragic death of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest water slide in Kansas has revealed gruesome details of how the boy died.
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An epic wildfire that has killed one person and blackened about 60,000 acres along the California coast, forced authorities on Monday to shut down a portion of scenic Highway 1 near Carmel-by-the-Sea. The closure of the highway, which runs along much of the Pacific coastline and is famed for its dramatic ocean views, was prompted by an increase in fire and wind activity in the Big Sur area, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. A bulldozer operator died on July 26 when his tractor rolled over as he helped property owners battle the blaze, becoming the sixth wildfire fatality in California this year.
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Bangladesh has kicked out a North Korean diplomat after he was caught smuggling more than one million cigarettes as well as electronics into the country in a shipping container, Dhaka officials said on Monday. Han Son Ik, the first secretary of the North Korean embassy in Dhaka, has been ordered to leave the country after failing to declare the goods worth nearly half a million dollars to customs. Bangladesh foreign secretary Shahidul Haque confirmed the order had been made to the North Koreans, but declined to give a timetable for his departure.
The threat of violence by people inspired by foreign extremists invokes fear in a majority of young Americans across racial groups. Sixty-two percent of young African-Americans and 55 percent of Hispanics surveyed said they were very concerned about the threat of violence committed by white extremists, compared to one-third of whites and 41 percent of Asian-Americans. GenForward is a survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
A Texas?motorist said she was so terrified of a police?officer during a routine traffic stop that she called 911 on him. Earledreka White was pulled over in March in downtown Houston after she allegedly crossed a solid line. The police officer ordered her to get back in the vehicle.