MORE BLUFF AND BLUSTER OVER THE BORDER WALL

Mexico agreed months ago to send troops to help stem the tide. Had nothing to do with Trump's threats. And companies by far would feel the effect of tariffs on Mexico. The China tariffs, on the other had, really affect the average consumer. https://www.nytimes.com/.../trump-mexico-deal-tariffs...

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Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced…

THE HORROR, THE HORROR
5-year-old girl paralyzed by rape shocks Sierra Leone

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — At first no one knew why the 5-year-old girl could no longer move her legs or control her urine. For months she lay on the ground, unable to walk or play. Some...

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A year after the assault, the girl is still unable to walk, and has had to use a hand-crank wheelchair. One of her leg bones is broken — health workers believe it is a complication of her paralysis — and now she lies in a hospital bed with her leg in traction. A tiny foot with specks of pink nail polish peeks out of her cast, which is tethered to the metal bed frame.

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Spain: Unfinished Gaudí church gets permit after 137 years
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Property owners have a new yardstick by way of Spain for measuring frustration over building permit requests they suspect got lost in a local government...

Property owners have a new yardstick for measuring wait times for building permits. Barcelona City Hall issued a work permit for the unfinished church designed by architect Antoni Gaudí 137 years after construction started on La Sagrada Familia Basilica.

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Film captures the loss of black San Franciscans
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Actor Jimmie Fails draws from his own story in his portrayal of a young black man navigating a shifting racial landscape in "The Last Black Man in San Francisco." 

Rising costs and redevelopment have driven out thousands of black households in San Francisco. A new film “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” explores that shifting racial landscape through the eyes of a native who doesn’t recognize his city.

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TIT FOR TAT 

China may restrict tech access in spiraling US trade dispute

The initiative follows U.S. moves to restrict sales to Huawei Technologies and other Chinese tech firms on national security grounds. https://apnews.com/c03545f6a2ec46cba95b9d9e8b041b47

BEIJING (AP) — China is creating a system to protect its technology, according to state media, as the U.S. restricts the access of Chinese companies to American technology in a spiraling trade...

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THE AGE OF THE CROWNED AND CONQUERING CHILD THE DIVINE ANDROGYN 

Lovingly, a family raises an intersex child - again

Her parents want Victory to be accepted for who she is. Instead of changing Victory, they are intent on changing the world so it is more accepting of intersex people.
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — When doctors said her youngest child would be a girl, Amie Schofield chose the name Victoria. Then they said the child would be a boy, so she switched to Victor. It turned...

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FBI releases 'Bigfoot file' from the 1970s
The federal government took rare action this week on a subject that's typically relegated mostly to Internet forums and conspiracy circles -- the existence of Bigfoot.

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GREEN CAPITALISM 

WALMART KNOWS SOMETHING TRUMP DOESN'T

Walmart opens 120 Electrify America electric vehicle charging stations nationwide
Electric vehicle charging stations have been installed at more than 120 Walmart locations across the country with additional locations planned in the coming years.

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SO MUCH WINNING EXPECT GROWTH OF 4 - 6%

World Bank downgrades 2019 global growth forecast
The World Bank has lowered its expectations for worldwide economic growth for the rest of 2019, it said in a new forecast.

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FDR pleads for divine aid as Allies invade Europe
In solemn words that went out to a newly hopeful world, President Roosevelt Tuesday night beseeched Almighty God to give strength and victory to Allied invasion forces now launched upon the greatest crusade of modern times -- the emancipation of Europe's suffering peoples.
Read Merriman Smith's original article from June 6, 1944 here.

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