Brenda Biya says her family in Cameroon was angry when she posted a photo of her kissing a woman.

President's daughter hopes coming out will change anti-gay laws

Chicago, IL

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Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

New York City, NY

Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has spawned a frenzy of online merchandise featuring a picture of the U.S. presidential candidate just after he was shot, with slogans such as "Bulletproof", "Legends Never Die", "Grazed but not Dazed", "Shooting Makes Me Stronger." With prices ranging anywhere...

Trump T-Shirts Go Viral: 'Grazed, but Not Dazed,' 'Legends Never Die'

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Latin Times

The speed of processing immigrant naturalizations has increased significantly during President Joe Biden's first three years in office. Concretely, some 2.66 million new immigrants were naturalized over the period, compared to about 2.31 million during the first three years of Trump's presidency. Data for 2024 is not yet available. In...

The speed of immigrant naturalizations has increased significantly during the Biden administration

Fox News

Republican lawmakers want the Biden administration to take more action to tackle countries who refuse to take back their illegal immigrants, including China.

Biden under pressure after countries refuse to take back illegal immigrants: 'National security concern'

California State

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The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

South Carolina State

Ballotpedia News

Throughout June, Ballotpedia covered 5,065 elections in 25 states, 76% of which were uncontested. That’s up from May when 70% of the 5,799 covered were uncontested. Ballotpedia defines an uncontested election as one where the number of candidates running is less than or equal to the number of seats up for election. This analysis does not account for write-in candidates.

76% of last June’s elections were uncontested

Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

Pennsylvania State

Bucks County Beacon

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

Butler, PA

BETHEL PARK, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -The portrait pieced together so far of the 20-year-old nursing home aide who allegedly tried to assassinate Donald Trump at an election rally reveals frustratingly little about why he would make such an attempt - or how he managed to come so close to killing the former president.

Suspect Came Within Inches of Killing Trump, but Left Few Clues as to Why

The Hill

The first original GOP party platform since 2016 establishes closing the U.S.-Mexico border to migrants and conducting mass deportations as Republicans’ top two priorities. The document, released Monday, mirrors former President Trump’s rhetoric and style, from the nature of its proposals to its grammatical quirks. Following a preamble that stylistically mimics Trump’s social media persona, the…

‘Migrant invasion,’ mass deportations top 2024 GOP platform

Intimidation and abuse during the general election put people off campaigning, the head of the Electoral Commission has said. Vijay Rangarajan told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme that some of the activities seen during the campaign - including slashing tires and targeting candidates' families - were "totally unacceptable". He...

Abuse put people off campaigning, says vote watchdog

The Guardian

No one should accept the idea that that opposing Trump’s authoritarian aspirations is equal to incitement to violence

Trump is an authoritarian who must not win. Saying that is not inciting violence | Jan-Werner Mueller

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Signs of trouble were evident in the minutes before shots rang out at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania: Police had a report of a suspicious man pacing near the magnetometers and were apparently exchanging photos of the suspect. Witnesses pointed and shouted at an armed man on a nearby roof.

Signs of Trouble at Trump Rally Were Evident in Minutes Before Gunman Opened Fire

“Who sits there and thinks, with all the needs we have in America, of criminalizing the homeless?” wonders Pastor Robert Brown of Bristol’s Bible Evangelical Methodist Church after learning that the United States Supreme Court approved punishing those experiencing homelessness who have nowhere to sleep.

After SCOTUS OK’s Criminalization of Homelessness, Pennsylvania Democrats Plan Legislative Response to Protect Rights of the Unhoused

(Reuters) -Misinformation and conspiracy theories were spreading online after an assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was alleged to have shot at the Republican presidential candidate from a rooftop during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding Trump's right ear. One spectator died and two others were injured.

We Fact-Checked Some of the Rumors Spreading Online About the Trump Assassination Attempt

Missouri State

Fulton, MO

CJ Coombs

Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children. Since July 1, 2024, according to the NCMEC, 15 children have been reported missing in the U.S. Not included in that number are those who have been missing in Missouri since June 2024.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

(Reuters) - Thomas Crooks, the suspect in Saturday's attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally, briefly appeared in an advertisement for BlackRock, the company said on Sunday. "In 2022, we ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School, in which several unpaid...

BlackRock Says Suspect From Trump Rally Appeared in a 2022 Ad

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Rwandans Vote 'Smoothly' in Election; Kagame in Early Lead

KIGALI (Reuters) -Rwandans lined up on Monday to elect their next president, with early results putting incumbent Paul Kagame in the lead in a vote widely...

Rwandans Vote 'Smoothly' in Election; Kagame in Early Lead

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