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Police Officer Deaths From Guns Up 78% From July Last Year

The July 17 shooting in Baton Rouge and the July 7 sniper attack on law enforcement officers in Dallas come at a time of heightened tensions between law enforcement and the communities they serve after civilian cameras captured the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minnesota at the hands of police.
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Libertarian Candidates Say Mitt Romney Is Considering Endorsing Them

“He’s thinking about it, Wolf, and I don’t want to press the point unless we get to 15%, because then I think the case for it is overwhelming.”
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Charges Dropped In Chandra Levy Murder

Prosecutors said they can no longer prove a murder case against Ingmar Guandique because of “recent unforeseen developments that were investigated over the past week,” said Bill Miller.… Continue Reading

Pope’s Poland Visit: Francis Delivers Mass Before Huge Crowd In Krakow

On his flight to Poland Wednesday, Francis addressed the recent slaying of a Catholic priest in Normandy, France, by two jihadists who declared their allegiance to ISIS.
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Syria, Russia To Open Aid, Exit Corridors In Besieged Aleppo, Officials Say

“No one can be forced to flee, by any specific route or to any particular location,” he said. “Protection must be guaranteed for all according to the principles of neutrality and impartiality.”
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FBI Chief: Success Against ISIS Means More Terror

“This is an order of magnitude greater than anything we’ve seen before” Comey said. “A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan… this is 10 times that or more.
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Scientists Find Cancer In Million-Year-Old Fossil

The foot fragment is approximately 1.7 million years old and the vertebrae almost 2 million years old.
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Trump Urges Viewers To Skip Clinton Speech As Democrats Rack Up Ratings Wins

“Unless you want to be lied to, belittled, and attacked for your beliefs, don’t watch Hillary’s DNC speech tonight,” the email read. “Instead, help Donald Trump hold her accountable, call out her lies and fight back against her nasty attacks.”
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