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Today is June
30, 2016
Leading the news today: Boris Johnson won't run for prime minister; Clinton ignored Benghazi survivors; family still urging Romney to run; Klan eyes a comeback; U.S. kills 250 ISIS bad guys; and Mika and Evening Joe appear to be an item.
Have a great day.
Keith
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Boris Johnson won't run for prime minister . . . Former London mayor Boris Johnson, runaway bookmakers' favorite to become Britain's prime minister, abruptly pulled out of the race on Thursday in a shock announcement less than a week after leading the campaign to pull the country out of the EU. Reuters
Others consider following Britain out of EU . . . Across the continent, anti-EU sentiment is bubbling up, fueled by far-right movements and others unhappy about government spending cuts, the influx of migrants and other policies overseen from the 28-nation bloc's headquarters in Brussels. Associated Press
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Clinton spoke to just one of 35 Benghazi
survivors . . . It took Hillary Clinton at least 48 days to speak with any of the government personnel who were evacuated from Benghazi, Libya after the deadly anti-American terror attacks there, and the only after urging by senior aide Huma Abedin. Daily Mail
Clinton was first choice for Sunday shows . . . Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the White
House's first choice to go on Sunday political talk shows in the immediate aftermath of the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, according to testimony revealed by House Select Committee on Benghazi. But her office passed on the opportunity. The Hill
Judge probes Clinton donor meetings . . . A federal judge has ordered the State Department to hand over records detailing Hillary Clinton's
schedules during 14 overseas trips as secretary of state amid speculation that Clinton kept meetings with donors to her family's foundations off her official calendar. Washington Examiner
Lynch met with Bill Clinton while wife under investigation . . . Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with former President Bill Clinton for a half-hour on her government airplane at the Phoenix airport on Tuesday, an Arizona news station is reporting. The unannounced meeting came as Lynch’s Justice Department is investigating the handling of classified information on Hillary
Clinton’s private email server. Daily Caller
Romney: Family still urging me
to get in . . . "My wife and kids wanted me to run again this time," Romney told CBS News anchor John Dickerson at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Wednesday. "I got an email from one of my sons yesterday, saying 'You gotta get in, Dad. You gotta get in.' Washington Examiner
McConnell praises Clinton, disses Trump . . . Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was busy praising presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Wednesday, criticizing his own party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. McConnell lauded
Clinton as “intelligent and capable” while casting Trump as not yet credible. He told Time Warner Cable (TWC) News that Trump is “getting closer,” but that he “clearly needs to change.” Breitbart
Obama scolds buyers of "gas guzzlers" . . . President Obama scolded “those of you who are buying gas-guzzlers” during remarks about clean energy at the North American leaders’ summit in Canada on Wednesday. Chuckling, Obama warned that oil was a “finite
resource.” Washington Free Beacon
Obama lectures: Trump, Brexit threaten our values . . . President Obama urged Canadians and Americans on Wednesday to resist the politics of fear and isolationism behind the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's nomination, which he said threaten inclusion, equality and tolerance. Washington Examiner
Sen. Mike Lee: Prove to me Trump
not an "autocrat" . . . Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said Wednesday he has serious concerns about presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and won’t vote for him without assurances “that he’s not somebody who’s going to abuse” the Constitution. Huffington Post
Michelle's one night stay in Morocco cost $612,322 . . . Mrs. Obama traveled to the North
African country with her daughters Sasha and Malia and mother Marian Robinson to promote her education initiative “Let Girls Learn.” She arrived in Morocco wearing a $1,750 designer dress and ended the night with a “lavish dinner” with Princess Lalla Salma and actress Meryl Streep. Washington Free Beacon
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U.S. kills at least 250 ISIS fighters . . . Iraqi aircraft joined the U.S.-led coalition in airstrikes targeting Islamic State convoys and killing at least 250 fighters, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad told Fox News Thursday. The U.S. airstrikes come roughly 24 hours after the triple suicide bombing at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport that killed more than 40 people. Fox News
Suicide bomb attack kills dozens in Afghanistan . .
. A twin suicide attack on a convoy of buses carrying police cadets killed 37 people and wounded 40 others on Thursday, an Afghan official said. Associated
Press
Military concerned about transgender timeline . . . The Pentagon is poised to announce new rules allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in the U.S. military, amid concerns from senior military leaders who believe the department is moving too fast and has yet to resolve many details, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
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Istanbul bombers were Russian, Kyrgyz, Uzbek . . . Three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers who killed 42 people in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul airport this week were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, a Turkish government official said on
Thursday. Reuters
Prisoners dug with spoons to escape Holocaust . . . A tunnel in
Lithuania that allowed Jewish prisoners to escape to freedom has been discovered at an infamous location called Ponar, decades after they used it to flee the Nazis one night in April 1944. The escapees were part of a group tasked with the horrific job of burning bodies to cover up the Nazi’s crimes. Fox News
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Third of businesses would shed jobs with $15 wage . . . Thirty percent of businesses said they would eliminate jobs if the minimum wage were increased to $15 an hour, according to a survey from Express Employment Professionals and 37 percent of businesses say they would increase the price of goods. Washington Free Beacon
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Temperatures soar past 100 as Calif. wildfires spread . . . A fast-moving wildfire charged through inaccessible terrain and climbed out of a steep canyon along the middle fork of the American River Wednesday as people living in the area sought safer ground. Firefighters braved triple-digit temperatures to battle the blaze in a rural subdivision 50 miles northeast of
Sacramento. Fox News
Klan eyes a comeback . . . In a series of interviews with The Associated Press, Klan leaders said they feel that U.S. politics are going their way, as a nationalist, us-against-them mentality deepens across the nation. Stopping or limiting immigration - a desire of the Klan dating back to the 1920s - is more of a cause than ever. And leaders say membership has gone up at the twilight of President Barack Obama's second term in office, though few would
provide numbers. Associated Press
Disney removing gator references . . . In the wake of a tragic alligator attack at a Disney World hotel that left a 2-year-old boy dead, Disney World has begun to make changes — even to decade-old attractions. Within days after 2-year-old Lane Graves was snatched by an alligator near the Seven Seas Lagoon Lagoon at the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa on June 14, Disney World staff was installing temporary barriers and new signs warning about the
alligators. And now, references and appearances to the predators in the parks have begun to disappear. Miami Herald Air Force won't go gender-neutral . . . As the Navy and Marines prepare to alter dozens of military titles to conform to gender-neutral terminology, the Air Force is bucking the trend and will be keeping the "man" in airman. Fox News
Phelps wins 200 butterfly to qualify for fifth Olympics . . . Phelps, who turns 31 on Thursday, pursued a short-lived retirement following the London Olympics.
Even after a career jammed with world records and 18 Olympic gold medals, he couldn’t resist chasing one last Games. Los Angeles Times
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Naked man takes over Time Square, yells for Trump . . . A naked man screaming about Donald Trump in Times Square Thursday morning was injured after falling off the red steps at the TKTS booth as scores of people — including cops — looked on in disbelief. New York Daily News
Mika divorce fuels Joe romance rumors . . . “Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and
Joe Scarborough could soon go public as a couple. Page Six has exclusively learned that Brzezinski and her husband of 23 years have quietly divorced. Popular MSNBC stars Scarborough and Brzezinski are widely rumored to be romantically involved — and there’s plenty of on-air chemistry for all to see. New York Post
Body parts wash up yards away from Rio Olympics site . . . Parts of a mutilated body washed up on the sands of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, police said, just yards from where beach volleyball athletes will compete in the
upcoming Olympics. New York Post
Video: Nasty brawl in Dallas over chips and salsa . . . Because this is Texas, and chips and salsa are practically like religion, the ubiquitous appetizer sparked a
nasty brawl at Dallas’ El Paisano Mexican Restaurant over the weekend. Eater.com
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A naked man screaming about Donald Trump in Times Square Thursday morning was injured after falling off the red steps at the TKTS booth as scores of people — including cops — looked on in disbelief.
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