ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

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July 6, 2016 (San Diego's East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

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For excerpts and links to full stories, click “read more” and scroll down.

U.S.

Veep auditions in overdrive (The Hill)

…With the Cleveland and Philadelphia conventions around the corner, those auditioning for vice president are raising their national profiles and showcasing the talent and experience they could bring to a Republican or Democratic ticket.

Even without charges, FBI rebuke leaves a heavy political cloud over Clinton (Washington Post)

… Even as Comey lifted a legal cloud by announcing that the FBI would not recommend criminal charges, he systematically obliterated many of the key defenses Clinton and her advisers have offered to reassure the public in the 15 months since the discovery that she used a private email system. For instance, Clinton had insisted that she did not send or receive classified materials, but Comey said the FBI found that 110 of her emails contained classified information.

I’m a lawyer specializing in security clearance. Hillary Clinton got off easy (Washington Post)

My legal practice involves representing clients denied or at risk of losing their security clearances. Facing the same set of facts outlined by FBI Director James B. Comey about Hillary Clinton and her aides, my less-well-known clients — whether an entry-level government contractor or a GS-14 federal employee — would be in serious jeopardy of losing their security clearances. In fact, I cannot foresee a situation in which an ordinary employee facing such allegations would be able to keep a security clearance with the types of concerns raised in the FBI findings.

Dallas shooting leaves 5 police officers dead, suspect is killed (New York Times)

At least one sniper, who said he wanted to shoot white police officers, killed five officers and wounded seven others at a demonstration in Dallas on Thursday night against police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, officials said. The sniper was killed, and three other people are in custody, officials said.

Beyond Dallas, police come under fire in three states (Reuters)

Police came under fire in three U.S. states on Thursday and Friday, authorities said, possibly prompted by the same motivation behind the rampage in Dallas: police use of force against black people.

After Philando Castile’s shooting, Obama calls police shootings ‘an American issue’(New York Times)

President Obama, reacting with the same horror as many Americans to a grisly video of a bloody, dying man in Minnesota who was shot by the police… graphic video showed Mr. Castile, who had been shot several times, slumping toward the woman who was recording the scene.. her 4-year-old daughter sat in the back seat and an officer stood just outside the driver’s side window, still aiming his gun at the mortally wounded man at point-blank range…On the video Ms. Reynolds, who said Mr. Castile was her boyfriend, gives her account of what happened, saying again and again that he had informed the officer that he was carrying a gun, and that he was just reaching for his driver’s license and registration — as the officer had requested — when the officer opened fire.

Why the case against Mississippi's religious freedom law was different (CS Monitor)

“The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor some religious beliefs over others,” Judge Reeves wrote in the 60-page ruling. 

Document spells out FBI rules to get journalists' phone records: article (Reuters)

 The Federal Bureau of Investigation is allowed to seek journalists' phone records with the approval of two government officials through a secretive surveillance process that does not require a warrant, The Intercept website reported on Thursday, citing a classified document

Traffic deaths jump 7.7 percent in 2015 to 35,200 (Reuters)

 U.S. traffic deaths rose 7.7 percent in 2015 over the previous year to 35,200, the highest number of people killed on U.S. roads since 2008, the government's preliminary estimate reviewed by Reuters shows.

Americans’ taste for  Mexican beer sucking up groundwater supply, mayor says (Guardian)

Municipality near the US border says brewery that makes Corona, Modelo and other beers is using so much water from wells that region is becoming bone dry.

WORLD

Car bombs target Baghdad shopping districts, 126 dead (CNN)

…The first detonation occurred Saturday on a busy shopping street in the central Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada, killing 125 people -- including 25 children -- and wounding 147 others, police said. Firefighting crews pulled injured and trapped people from adjacent buildings damaged in the massive blast, including a coffee shop, stores and a gym.The second bomb exploded at an outdoor market in the Shaab neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five others, police said.

Supplies run out in southern Mexico amid teachers' protests(San Diego Union-Tribune)

Business leaders and government officials said Wednesday that supplies of gasoline, food and other goods are running out in southern Mexico because protesting teachers have blockaded key highways.

World reacts to death of Elie Wiesel, ‘conscience of the world’(NBC)

The world reacted with shock and sadness to the death of author Elie Wiesel, whose poignant memoir about surviving the Holocaust serves as a powerful testament of the atrocities capable of mankind, and who dedicated his life to fighting inhumanity around the world.

A Personal Retrospective: Was Elie Wiesel Happy? (Jerusalem Post)

To keep describing Wiesel in all the obituaries as a survivor does an injustice to the totality of his life and accomplishments.

Suspected IS attack kills dozens at Istanbul airport (AP)

Suspected Islamic State group extremists have hit the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing dozens of people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said Tuesday.

EU referendum petition hijacked by bots(BBC)

An online petition calling for a second EU referendum has been hijacked by automated bots adding false signatures.

CIA weapons for Syrian rebels sold to arms black market: NYT(Reuters)

Weapons shipped into Jordan for Syrian rebels by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, the New York Times reported, citing American and Jordanian officials.

Iraqi Military Video Shows Massive Attack On ISIS (NPR)

Iraqi and U.S. forces claim to have killed hundreds of ISIS fighters and destroyed hundreds of their vehicles in a convoy moving across the desert.

Palestinian kills Israeli girl, 13, sleeping in her bedroom (CS Monitor)

A Palestinian youth sneaked into a fortified Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Thursday, broke into a home and stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli-American girl as she slept in bed before frantic security guards arrived and killed him. The girl, identified as Hallel Yaffa Ariel, became the youngest Israeli victim of a nine-month wave of violence that has seen dozens of Palestinian attacks….

Why Beijing (and 45 other cities in China) are sinking(CS Monitor)

Beijing sinking 11 cm: Major Chinese cities are sinking. What lessons do the world's other sinking cities have for China?

 


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