Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Evening Edition: Trump signals openness to changing gun laws

Republicans join Obama in rebuking Trump ; Wife is said to have warned gunman not to carry out attack; For Orlando homicide detective, a mass shooting turns personal; Toddler's body recovered after alligator attack at Disney resort; Marco Rubio says he will reconsider leaving Senate; Russia denies DNC hack and says maybe someone ‘forgot the password’; Kansas State Board of Education votes to ignore Obama’s transgender bathroom directive; Consumers could be facing biggest increase in ACA health premiums next year; Judge in Stanford sexual assault case is removed from new case; WHO: Coffee itself isn’t cancerous, but watch out for 'very hot' beverages; Hundreds of colleges had zero rape reports in 2014. And that could be worrisome.; A new federal report discusses an unexpected theory for why murders are rising in U.S. cities; Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car; The world’s oldest computer is still revealing its secrets; 9 things Michelle Obama and Oprah shared last night;
 
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Trump signals openness to changing gun laws
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee and some vulnerable GOP lawmakers say they're open to changing the nation's gun laws, raising the possibility that the political tide may be shifting on an issue that has divided Americans for years.
Republicans join Obama in rebuking Trump
The bipartisan outcry over Donald Trump's comments on Muslims set off a new wave of alarm within the GOP over whether the presumptive nominee's promised pivot to the general election would ever materialize.
 
Wife is said to have warned gunman not to carry out attack
Noor Z. Salman, the shooter's wife, told investigators she accompanied Omar Mateen on at least one trip to Pulse before the attack for what a U.S. law enforcement official described as "reconnaissance."
 
For Orlando homicide detective, a mass shooting turns personal
As he examined the victims' bodies, Det. Danny Garcia Pagan came across a woman with purple lipstick and no name. Her personal effects revealed little about her identity. He would soon discover that, as is so often true of Latinos in Central Florida, only a few degrees separated him from the lovely young woman on the stretcher.
 
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Toddler's body recovered after alligator attack at Disney resort
The body of a 2-year-old boy snatched by an alligator has been found, ending a desperate search that lasted more than 18 hours, officials in Florida said.
 
Marco Rubio says he will reconsider leaving Senate
The Florida senator had pledged for months not to seek re-election to the Senate while he waged an ill-fated campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
 
Russia denies DNC hack and says maybe someone ‘forgot the password’
"I absolutely rule out the possibility that the government or government agencies were involved in this," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said.
 
Kansas State Board of Education votes to ignore Obama’s transgender bathroom directive
The board argued that local schools should decide how to handle issues facing transgender students.
 
Consumers could be facing biggest increase in ACA health premiums next year
Analysis shows proposed rates on benchmark plans would go up an average of 10 percent.
 
Judge in Stanford sexual assault case is removed from new case
A district attorney exerted a rarely used authority to prevent Judge Aaron Persky, who is at the center of a recall campaign, from handling a different sexual assault case.
 
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WHO: Coffee itself isn’t cancerous, but watch out for 'very hot' beverages
Industry groups say this is the first time officials have reclassified a consumer product as being healthier.
 
Hundreds of colleges had zero rape reports in 2014. And that could be worrisome.
With many women saying they were sexually assaulted in college, why is it that so many colleges had zero reports of rape?
 
A new federal report discusses an unexpected theory for why murders are rising in U.S. cities
More people were murdered in large U.S. cities last year than in 2014 — the first substantial increase in homicides in a quarter century — and criminologists still are not sure why.
 
Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
It's something to think about next you time you easily find a parking spot.
 
The world’s oldest computer is still revealing its secrets
"It would be hard to dispute that this is the single most information-rich object that has been uncovered by archaeologists from ancient times," one researcher said.
 
9 things Michelle Obama and Oprah shared last night
The first lady discussed her thoughts on men, time and the White House moment that still moves her to tears.
 
 
     
 
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