Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Tuesday's Headlines: Trump entered June with just $1.3 million, while Clinton sat on $42 million war chest

Trump's paltry fundraising in May is inexplicable; New anti-Trump movement grows to include hundreds of GOP delegates; Work begins to try to save Christianity's holiest shrine: Jesus's tomb; Sotomayor's fierce dissent slams high court's ruling on evidence from illegal stops;
 
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Trump entered June with just $1.3 million, while Clinton sat on $42 million war chest
Donald Trump loaned his campaign $2.2 million in May and collected $3.1 million in donations, ending the month with less than $1.3 million in bank, according to new campaign finance filings.
Trump's paltry fundraising in May is inexplicable
This remarkably poor showing will only heighten Republican concerns about his ability to run a serious general election campaign against presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
 
New anti-Trump movement grows to include hundreds of GOP delegates
Organizers concede their plan could worsen internal party strife, but believe they are responding to deep-rooted concerns among conservatives.
 
Work begins to try to save Christianity's holiest shrine: Jesus's tomb
Greek conservationists will restore a collapsing chapel built above and around the "Holy Rock" cave where the faithful believe that Jesus was buried and rose from the dead after the Crucifixion. As part of the work, crews will enter Jesus's tomb for the first time in more than 200 years.
 
Sotomayor's fierce dissent slams high court's ruling on evidence from illegal stops
The justice said the Supreme Court is telling Americans, especially minorities, that "your body is subject to invasion" after a decision that courts need not throw out evidence even if a police officer obtained it using unlawful tactics.
 
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A week after Orlando, Republicans protect terrorists' right to bear arms
 
Trump's special version of Jim Crow — for Muslims
 
Why Brexit alarms Britain's Baltic allies
 
A delegate revolt has become Republicans' only option
 
Trump neutralizes Democrats' attacks by adopting their positions
 
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While Latin America panics over Zika, Haiti faces epidemic with a shrug
The extent of the Zika epidemic is a mystery in the hemisphere's poorest country.
New tool to take down terrorism images online spurs debate on what constitutes extremist content
Tech companies are wary of an initiative to define and ban terrorist images.
Military retirees have a revolving door to civilian Pentagon jobs. The Senate voted to shut it.
More than 41,000 military retirees have walked into civilian jobs at the Defense Department since Sept. 11, 2001 — with no competition.
Europe worries Brexit vote could trigger a stampede of exits
If Britain leaves the European Union, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and a handful of others may follow.
Hacking by the Chinese government is down sharply since mid-2014, researchers say
A new report said the decline in cyberespionage is an apparent response to U.S. indictments, the threat of economic sanctions and the widespread outing of hacker groups.
Clinton to paint Trump as reckless about the economy
As with her attack on his national security policies earlier this month, Hillary Clinton will use Donald Trump's own words against him in an address in Ohio on Tuesday.
Flying cars just took a big step closer to being legal
An exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration clears a major hurdle for an industry that hopes to bring the first flying vehicle to market in the next decade.
‘Star Trek’s’ Anton Yelchin and the scary reality of the Jeep that rolls away and kills you
The actor's death raised the fear of anyone who's ever parked on a steep incline and worried if the brakes would hold. 
Why .400 has become baseball's unhittable benchmark
Even as batting average has been devalued as a statistic, .400 has remained both a mystical and unattainable ideal. The last player to reach the magic number was Ted Williams in 1941.
 
     
 
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