Friday, May 31, 2019

NBA Fines Doc Rivers $50,000 For Saying Kawhi Leonard Is Good - Deadspin

U.S. tariff threat backs Mexican president into corner, facing Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to slap punitive tariffs on all Mexican trade if Mexico does not stop illegal immigration has punched a gaping hole in his Mexican counterpart's hands-off approach to diplomacy, with potentially ruinous consequences.


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Jackie Bradley Jr., Andy Barkett describe fixing JBJ's swing amid recent hot streak

Red Sox 1B Steve Pearce exits game vs Yanks with back spasms

11-foot gator bursts through windows, into kitchen of Clearwater home - WTSP.com

Colorado governor signs gay conversion therapy ban - NBC News

Panasonic's cinema-centric S1H mirrorless camera can shoot 6K video - Engadget

Chicago prosecutor releases Smollett docs and explains recusal - Fox News

REPORT: Trading pick No. 3 for Nos. 8 and 10 “under consideration” by the Knicks - Posting and Toasting

REPORT: Trading pick No. 3 for Nos. 8 and 10 “under consideration” by the Knicks  Posting and Toasting

Two outcomes have seemed likely for the Knicks with the No. 3 overall pick since the lottery a couple of weeks ago: draft R.J. Barrett (or Jarrett Culver), or trade ...

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Fox News stands by Laura Ingraham after she defends white supremacist, other extremists on her prime time show - CNN

Saudi king says attacks by Iran-backed groups threaten global oil

Saudi Arabia's King Salman said on Saturday that attacks on Saudi oil assets last month by Iran-backed groups are a threat to global oil supplies and regional security.


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UK's Chagos Islands descendants feel like 'lost nation'

Evicted from their homeland, Chagos Islands families living in the UK are divided by immigration law.

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Venezuela crisis: What happened to uprising against Maduro?

A beleaguered people say they had hopes their misery would end but now they go back to one thing - survival.

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Sayyida Salme: The tragic life of Zanzibar's rebel princess

Sayyida Salme is a little known 19th Century princess who fled Zanzibar after scandalising the royals.

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MacKenzie Bezos: Novelist and Amazon shareholder

What do we know about the novelist who is the third-richest woman in the world?

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Tiananmen 30 years on - China's great act of 'forgettance'

Older people are not allowed to remember; the younger generation aren't even allowed to know.

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Elton John Denounces Russia Censoring 'Rocketman' Gay Sex Scenes 'In the Strongest Possible Terms'

The music legend says the censorship is 'a sad reflection of the divided world we still live.'

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'Jeopardy!' star James Holzhauer wins again Friday, could break money record on Monday - USA TODAY

Chinese Tourism To U.S. Is Down After Years Of Booming Growth - NPR

Chinese Tourism To U.S. Is Down After Years Of Booming Growth  NPR

For years, a record number of Chinese tourists have flocked to U.S. attractions like Hollywood, Capitol Hill and the Grand Canyon. But their numbers are now ...



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Trump heads to London amid Brexit furor and political upheaval in Europe. What could go wrong? - Los Angeles Times

Passengers May Pay a Lot More. Drivers Won’t Accept Much Less. - The New York Times

U.S. stock market forgoes $5 trillion in returns thanks to trade war, estimates Deutsche Bank - MarketWatch

Knicks draft target RJ Barrett's longtime coach: 'He wants New York' - SNY.tv

Georgia abortion: WarnerMedia joins Disney and Netflix in considering options

Disney, Netflix and WarnerMedia all say the new law could prompt them to pull productions.

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Boeing admits it 'fell short' on safety alert for 737

Boss Dennis Muilenburg says the US aircraft maker is now fixing the problems.

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How damaging is the Huawei row for the US and China?

What do Washington's latest moves against Huawei mean for any US-China trade deal?

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Hungary's Fidesz might join new grouping in European parliament: PM

Hungary's Fidesz party could join a new grouping in the European parliament if staying in the center-right European People's Party (EPP) does not line up with national interests, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on Friday.


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North Korea executes envoy in a purge after failed U.S. summit: media

North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday.


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Saudi Arabia says firm stand needed to deter Iran, Iraq demurs

Saudi Arabia's King Salman told an emergency Arab summit on Friday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations" following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as U.S. officials said a military deployment had deterred Tehran.


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Hungary PM Orban seeks thorough probe into fatal boat accident

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he had asked for a thorough investigation into a boat accident on the Danube River in central Budapest that killed at least seven South Korean tourists this week.


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'Khan Market Gang': India's Modi mocks his elite adversaries

A tatty shopping center originally built to house refugees in the heart of New Delhi has become a handy symbol for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his supporters to rub salt in the wounds of their opponents, who just got a drubbing in India's general election.


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Palestinian stabs Israelis, shot dead by police: spokesman

A Palestinian stabbed two Israelis in Jerusalem on Friday, wounding one of them critically, before being shot dead by police, an Israeli police spokesman said.


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Car bomb targets U.S. convoy in Afghan capital, several casualties

A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy exploded in the Afghan capital on Friday, wounding four U.S. service members and causing a number of other casualties, officials said, in the second attack in the city in two days.


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Trump vows rapid, high tariffs on Mexico unless illegal immigration ends

U.S. President Donald Trump, responding to a surge of illegal immigrants across the southern border, vowed on Thursday to impose a tariff on all goods coming from Mexico, starting at 5% and ratcheting much higher until the flow of people ceases.


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Automakers tremble in Asia as Trump threatens Mexico tariffs

Shares of major Asian automakers and suppliers tumbled on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on imports from Mexico from next month, potentially upending a decades-old business model of global manufacturers.


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'America First is a fallacy,' Mexico's president responds to Trump tariff

"America First is a fallacy," Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told U.S. President Donald Trump in a letter on Thursday, responding to a White House announcement it was imposing a blanket 5% tariff on all goods from Mexico from June 10.


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Mexico central bank board member says this is 'game changer' after U.S. tariff threat

Mexican central bank board member Jonathan Heath said on Twitter Thursday night "this is a game changer," after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose a tariff on all goods coming from Mexico if the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border is not stopped.


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