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A van driving at high speed mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge late Saturday night before the occupants got out and began stabbing patrons at nearby bars and restaurants, witnesses said in an attack that police described as the latest in a string of deadly terrorist strikes to hit Britain this spring. Witnesses described a rampage that left a trail of bloodied bodies on the bridge and in the adjacent Borough Market - both of which are London landmarks.
Psychologically, of course, this all makes sense. Penn, Peckinpah, even Porter were attempting to make the viewer feel complicit in their films' violence-something they assumed would provoke shame.
Joy Reid's panel this morning looked at the many angles of the story about Jared Kushner's meeting with Russian banker and alleged spy Sergey Gorkov. "If there's an innocent explanation for all of this, one wonders why the stories keep shifting," Joy Reid said.
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois about the Paris climate change agreement, health care reform and the Democrats' strategy in Congress.
Former ExxonMobil chair and CEO Rex Tillerson, who now serves as President Donald Trump's secretary of state, reportedly "approved of the inconsistency." ExxonMobil is being accused of using "sham" accounting to "mislead" investors about the likely financial risks posed by climate change, which New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said was evidence of potentially "wide-ranging fraud" executed under the direction of former CEO and current U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson .
A child with severe diarrhoea or cholera receives treatment at the Sab'een Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen,on 12 May 2017. With about 70,000 cholera cases reported with nearly 600 fatalities in Yemen, the United Nations Children's Fund today warned that an already dire situation for children is turning into a disaster.
The economy added 138,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate declined slightly to 4.3 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of jobs added was less than the 185,000 analysts had expected.
The White House and a Russian state-owned bank have very different explanations for why the bank's chief executive and Jared Kushner held a secret meeting during the presidential transition in December. The bank maintained this week that the session was held as part of a new business strategy and was conducted with Kushner in his role as the head of his family's real estate business.
A woman cries as she holds a lit candle for the victims of Wednesday's blast in Kabul, Afghanistan on 1 June 2017. A suicide bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan killed at least 90 people and injured over 450.
A crowd of supporters cheer Bernie Sanders during a rally in New York during the 2016 presidential campaign. Several polls combined with his growing support base have confirmed that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the United States.
More than 22,000 people have signed a petition urging major U.S. media to stop ignoring Mike Pence's culpability. "Vice President Mike Pence has established a pattern of false statements, misdirection, and blind obedience to Donald Trump.
"In an economy that is 70% driven by consumer demand, giving a third of the working population a raise is the best economic stimulus available." WASHINGTON - This morning, following the Illinois General Assembly's passage of a bill to gradually raise the state minimum wage to $15/hour, the Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires Morris Pearl, former managing director at BlackRock Inc., issued the following statement: "We're encouraged that the Illinois General Assembly has decided to support workers and pass a bill raising the state minimum wage to $15 an hour.
An estimated 200,000 people took part in the April 29, 2017 climate march in Washington, D.C.. As the world braced for President Donald Trump's expected announcement of withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement on Thursday, environmental organization 350.org laid out steps for how an energized people's movement can "rise up like never before" and stop the anti-science White House from destroying the planet.
Ben Jealous, the youngest person to ever head the NAACP, has entered the race for governor of Maryland. He announced his bid Wednesday outside of his cousin's West Baltimore flower shop, which was opened after the 2015 unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody.
In addition to a new poll showing it would be extraordinarily popular , California's single-payer bill-the Healthy California Act-would also cut costs while providing coverage for all. "We estimate that, through implementation of Healthy California, overall costs of providing full health care coverage to all Californians could fall by about 18 percent relative to spending levels under the existing system," the authors of the report note.
In the latest pushback against modern-day debtors' prisons, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of South Carolina, and Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC filed a class-action lawsuit today challenging the illegal arrest and incarceration of poor people in Lexington County, South Carolina. Victims are arrested on warrants and incarcerated when they cannot afford to pay fines for traffic and other misdemeanor offenses.
First came the photo: comedian Kathy Griffin posing with the "severed head" of President Trump. Then came the apology, and the consequences, with Griffin losing her plum New Year's Eve hosting gig with CNN.
The law is Texas's acknowledgement that the federal government is dependent on local law enforcement to carry out its deportation agenda. Protesters line the balconies of the state Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas, on May 29, 2017, to protest Senate Bill 4. First comes the passage of a stunningly punitive anti-immigrant state law.