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HONG KONG — Several districts of Hong Kong were again convulsed by mass demonstrations and street clashes on Sunday, amid concerns that local gangsters might try to assault protesters in a reprise of earlier violence. The prospect of further street brawls between civilians lent a heightened sense of danger and uncertainty to protests that have continued for 10 consecutive weekends, prompted by fears about the erosion of civil liberties under…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday released an ambitious plan to combat gun violence that combines executive orders and congressional action with the aim of to reducing gun deaths by 80%. The plan comes amid renewed calls for gun control one week after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left more than 30 dead.  Warren released the plan shortly before joining the majority of other Democratic candidates…

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A Honda that police say belongs to Patrick Crusius, 21, the suspect in the El Paso mass shooting, is shown at an intersection near where the shooting occurred on Saturday, Aug. 3. Crusius told police he drove 10 hours from a suburb of Dallas to target “Mexicans.” Police say he exited the vehicle and immediately surrendered, telling them “I’m the shooter,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained Friday. (Robert…

The pair of retweets come on a day when Mr. Trump expressed outrage on Twitter over what he called “dishonest” and “inaccurate” coverage of his presidency by the news media, including The New York Times. Mr. Trump insisted that reports that several survivors of the mass shooting in El Paso last weekend had refused to see him when he visited their hospital on Wednesday were false, but provided no evidence….

Hong Kong’s flag carrier and largest airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, is in an awkward position. It must triangulate between Chinese authorities, passengers, and its employees, some of whom have been fired over ongoing local protests. Demonstrators in Hong Kong initially began to gather en masse about 10 weeks ago to express their opposition to a bill allowing authorities to extradite locals to mainland China. The weekly rallies have since evolved to…

At least 18 people have been killed and 14 were missing in eastern China in a landslide triggered by a large typhoon, which caused widespread transport disruptions and the evacuation of more than 1 million people. Typhoon Lekima made landfall early on Saturday in the eastern province of Zhejiang with maximum winds of 116mph (187km/h)

DES MOINES, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg is asking whether there would be fewer police shootings if guns weren’t so prevalent on American streets. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, posed the question during an appearance at Saturday’s Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund’s Presidential Gun Sense Forum, held in Des Moines, Iowa. “We’ve got to ask ourselves, if we lived in a country where everybody wasn’t armed, would officers be…

Video Epstein pronounced dead at the hospital after being found unresponsive in his jail cell Jeffrey Epstein was being held in the metropolitan correctional center in lower Manhattan. President Trump added fuel to the conspiracy theories surrounding multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide on Saturday when he retweeted a post that implied former President Bill Clinton was linked to Epstein’s death. The tweet came from self-described comedian Terrence K. Williams who echoed many on social…

The protests in Hong Kong began in response to a proposed extradition law. Demonstrations have expanded to include other demands. Vincent Thian/AP hide caption toggle caption Vincent Thian/AP The protests in Hong Kong began in response to a proposed extradition law. Demonstrations have expanded to include other demands. Vincent Thian/AP Protests continued in Hong Kong for a 10th straight weekend on Saturday as demonstrators organized across the city, blocking multiple…

How the streaming wars between Disney, Netflix and everybody else… Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and others are about to come head-to-head with the likes of Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max and CNBC’s parent company, NBCUniversal…. Technologyread more

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Adelia Johnson thought she understood where Connor Betts was coming from when he shared that he’d contemplated suicide, and even when he once told her in a drunken call about wanting to hurt people. As they dated this spring, they bonded over their struggles with mental illness, she said, so his dark thoughts didn’t seem so abnormal. Not to her, as someone familiar with the…

CLOSE CLOSE The shooter spent hours traveling by car to El Paso, carrying out the shooting in just minutes. Nate Chute, USA Today Network EL PASO, Texas – By daybreak that fateful Saturday, El Paso was already heating up, pulsing toward a high of 104.  Benny McGuire jostled his 10-year-old daughter Madison out of bed. She was in no mood to stand in 100-degree weather selling snacks for her soccer…

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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by apparent suicide overnight in a Manhattan jail cell. Epstein was being held without bail pending a trial on child sex trafficking charges. On Friday, thousands of pages of documents were unsealed in federal court from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims Epstein kept her as a sex slave. Watch “CBS This Morning” HERE: http://bit.ly/1T88yARDownload the CBS News app on iOS HERE:…

Some guy named James Neally, sent me a death threat a couple of weeks ago via Facebook Messenger.  “Keep taling (sic) about the potus that way you did in your last article and it will be the end of you and your family.” Nice, huh? I spent several hours talking to the FBI about it this week. They’re trying to find James Neally and they’re not having much success. Facebook won’t…

That protest march in Central District, billed by organizers as a “family friendly” event, featured parents, baby strollers and children with balloons, and avoided incendiary slogans about “retaking Hong Kong” that have angered China’s governing Communist Party. “Xi Jinping should come and take a look at us here, now, and then say whether we are hooligans,” said Ina Wong, a 34-year-old designer, referring to China’s hard-line leader. Ms. Wong took…