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Trump seizes on cables scandal to jam UK:

Only a month after basking in the pageantry and lavish hospitality that only Queen Elizabeth II can lay on, President Donald Trump is back to telling Britain who is boss.

With a devastating pair of tweets on Monday that all but declared Ambassador Sir Kim Darroch persona-non-grata, the President did more than simply feed a personal grudge. He turned Britain’s extreme discomfort into political leverage over America’s best friend.

By making it clear he would prefer an envoy more sympathetic to his worldview, Trump is effectively trying to make it more difficult for another country to get accurate diplomatic reporting and internal intelligence on an administration that has alarmed many foreign allies — not just Britain.

A mom was arrested after she left her child in a hot car as punishment for misbehaving:

A Utah woman was arrested last week for putting her child in a hot car with the windows up.

Police arrived at Draper Park within five minutes of receiving a call from bystanders about the boy on July 2 at around 9 a.m., Draper Police Lt. Pat Evans said.
When they arrived, officers found him in a vehicle that was turned off with the windows up in 82-degree heat, he said.
Jesica Brown, 28, told police that she put her 4-year-old son in the car as punishment for misbehaving in the park, Evans said.

A high school principal is reassigned after writing that he couldn’t say the Holocaust was ‘a factual, historical event’:

The principal at a Florida high school is being reassigned to a position with the school district after revelations that he wrote emails to a parent that seemed to cast doubt on the historical veracity of the Holocaust.

“It is out of an abundance of concern and respect for the students and staff of Spanish River Community High School that School District Administration has decided to reassign Principal William Latson effective immediately,” the School District of Palm Beach County wrote in a statement.

Pelosi says Trump census citizenship push aims to ‘make America white again’:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday criticized President Donald Trump’s continued push to add a citizenship question to the upcoming 2020 census, saying that it is part of an effort to “make America white again.”

Speaking at a press conference in San Francisco on election security, Pelosi accused Republicans of trying to suppress the vote and gerrymander districts so that “just their people vote and not the general population.”
“That’s why they’re fighting the census,” she said.
Pelosi repeatedly called the effort “disgraceful” and invoked a phrase she had previously used to knock Trump’s immigration policie

Police say man cut Arizona teen’s throat because rap music made him feel unsafe:

Police say a man accused of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old in the throat at an Arizona convenience store told them he felt threatened because the teen had been listening to rap music.

The incident occurred in Peoria, Arizona, near Phoenix, early Thursday.
Witnesses told police that the man, who’s been identified as Michael Paul Adams, 27, walked up behind the teen, grabbed him and stabbed him in the neck, according to a probable cause statement obtained by CNN affiliate KPHO/KTVK.
Family members said the teen, Elijah Al-Amin, had gotten off of work about 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday and had spent some time with his girlfriend before stopping at the store.

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