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The shooting happened just before 3 pm local time on the 16th floor of the hospital, located in the Mt. Eden area of The Bronx. There were also reports of a fire inside the hospital.
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The shooting happened just before 3 pm local time on the 16th floor of the hospital, located in the Mt. Eden area of The Bronx. There were also reports of a fire inside the hospital.
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Xaviere Coleman pours water over his head to cool off in a Wookiee costume along the Las Vegas Strip, June 20, 2017, in Las Vegas. Coleman was taking a break from posing for photographs with tourists.
Xaviere Coleman pours water over his head to cool off in a Wookiee costume along the Las Vegas Strip, June 20, 2017, in Las Vegas. Coleman was taking a break from posing for photographs with tourists.
As people from California to Texas cranked up their air conditioners, at least eight utilities across five states saw electricity use reach all-time highs, meaning they provided more simultaneous power than ever before.
The records were a scorching reminder that Americans are already experiencing a rise in extreme heat that scientists attribute to climate change. The number of days with highs above 95 degrees has risen substantially in many places, according to a recent analysis by Climate Central, an independent, non-profit research and news organization that analyzes and reports on climate science.
Record-breaking demand for electricity is likely to continue, said Maximilian Auffhammer, an environmental economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who wrote a paper on the subject in February. Hot states with growing populations, such as Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, will feel the biggest impact, he said.
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Alsumaria News quoted a local source in Nineveh on Friday saying that Abu Baraa al-Mawseli, one of Islamic State's top leaders and the assistant ruler of Tal Afar town, west of the province, delivered a sermon during the Friday prayer in which he "surprisingly" admitted defeat in Mosul, as the source put it.
Abu Baraa also declared Tal Afar as "a temporary headquarter for the Caliphate".
At another sermon in the same town, Alsumaria News said Abu Qutaiba, another senior aide to IS supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, broke into tears when he came to mention the latter during the speech. "He mumbled a few words afterwards that suggested Baghdadi's death," the source said.
Iraqi security officials have not verified the two incidents, but have confirmed the collapse of the group's rule in Iraq by losing Mosul.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared on Thursday Islamic State's defeat in western Mosul Old City, the group's last bastion in the city from where it first declared its establishment in 2014.
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The court unanimously reached the decision on Friday in the case Pidgeon v. Turner, which challenged a decision by the City of Houston to provide its public employees' same-sex spouses the same benefits that it provides to those of the opposite sex.
The case was taken in response to the US Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage and required governmental departments to allocate benefits to same-sex spouses of governmental employees.
The case was taken by two men who objected to Houston's decision to comply with the Obergefell decision because they are "devout Christians who have been compelled by the mayor's unlawful edict to subsidize homosexual relationships that they regard as immoral and sinful."
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Kori Doty is a non-binary transgender parent who is also fighting to have the eight-month-old child's gender omitted from their birth certificate, as well as in any other governmental documents.
"Often I'll just say I don't know yet, or I'm not rushing to apply those types of labels on this kid. Right now they're just a baby," Doty says of questions about the child's gender.
Doty reportedly gave birth to baby Searyl at a friend's home last November, and so the newborn's gender wasn't recorded by a medical professional. When Doty registered Searyl's birth with Canada's Vital Statistics Agency the baby's gender was listed as "unknown."
The agency agreed to register the birth, but is refusing to issue a birth certificate for Searyl as the Vital Statistics Act requires a birth certificate to specify a person's sex.
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The footage was uploaded to Twitter by Tommy McCullough, presumably a son of one of the Delta passengers. A soaked man is seen in the video attempting to divert the water with a magazine.
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Charlie Gard’s parents said the day he was born was the best day of their lives.
Charlie Gard’s parents said the day he was born was the best day of their lives.
British doctors told Connie Yates and Chris Gard that there was nothing they could do for their son, and that he had irreversible brain damage. But Mom and Dad disagreed, saying they saw their boy improving and even opening his eyes and knowing they were there, the Daily Mail reported.
So Charlie's parents raised the equivalent of over $1.8 million to have him treated experimentally in the United States.
But doctors said no. Then British courts said no. And then the European Court of Human Rights said no. Officials said it would be kinder to let the boy die, the Daily Mail said.
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"The residents of the city, who have already been under the siege of terrorists for a long time, are under a new threat. As soon as terrorists finish the construction of an improvised dam, the town will face a full-scale humanitarian catastrophe. People will be left without water," the source said.
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The Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant
The Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant
The agency says it has until August 1 to develop plans to prevent the collapse of yet another tunnel at Hanford. The facility was built in the 1950s and for decades produced plutonium for the US nuclear weapons arsenal. In 1988, production stopped and the site became a burying ground for radioactive waste.
The tunnels were used to get rid of nuclear material and equipment, such as rail cars that transported the fuel rods from nuclear reactors to the processing facility.
One such tunnel partially collapsed on May 9, prompting the Department of Energy to declare an emergency at Hanford. Some 3,000 workers sought shelter and were advised to temporarily refrain from eating and drinking.
The attack took place in the municipality Simon Bolivar in Barcelona, Anzoategui state, when a group of attackers infiltrated a government food distribution centre.The Ministry of Food has stated the attackers set fire to the interior of a warehouse, destroying a stockpile of basic food products awaiting distribution.
Food Minister Rodolfo Marco Torres described the incident as an act of terrorism, blaming opposition supporters.
"This is ... fascism, this attack on the people by these terrorists," he said.
Comment: Hmm.. Destroying infrastructure, exacerbating tensions, making food difficult to deliver... the CIA certainly has its dirty hands in this. See:
- The CIA's 'Phoenix Program' in Vietnam: Practice run for the "war on terror"
- Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa threatened by CIA soft coups
- Same old CIA dirty tactics? Fomenting covert war in Venezuela
- Dirty CIA front: The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela
- Cold war CIA coup tactics continue to be used worldwide: Ukraine, Venezuela and Thailand are the latest victims
Comment: RT has updated their coverage of this story: