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Elizabeth Warren reframes mass shooting debate after Virginia Beach

• Warren: everyday gun violence should get same coverage
• Leading Democrats attend convention in San Francisco

A day after the deadliest US mass shooting this year in which 12 people were shot dead at a government building, Elizabeth Warren was asked what she would do to confront an “overwhelming surge” in such events.

The Massachusetts senator said she wanted to reframe the question, then continued: “It’s not just mass shootings.” Every day in America, she said, gun violence occurs “on sidewalks and playgrounds and people’s backyards. It’s happening family by family across the country. And it doesn’t get the same headlines. And that is wrong.”

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from World news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2XkzvHX

BTS are the first Korean band to headline Wembley Stadium

The pop idols become the first South Korean group to headline Wembley Stadium.

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/30XKYzr

Thirty years after Tiananmen, protesters' goals further away than ever

Three decades after China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square, increased government suppression of rights activism has pushed the demonstrators' original goals further away than ever.

from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Wizw2B

Brazilian football star Neymar accused of raping woman in Paris hotel

The Paris Saint-Germain star denies claims in a police document that he assaulted a woman last month

The Brazilian footballer Neymar has been accused of raping a woman in a hotel in Paris last month, according to a police document in Brazil.

The player’s father called the accusation by the unidentified woman “a setup” against his son.

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from World news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2YZJfb9

U.S. Women’s Open: Former Duke Teammates Tie for Third-Round Lead

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://nyti.ms/2QAkCyE

Soccer Star Neymar Accused of Rape

By TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports https://nyti.ms/2IehTHt

Fading Memories of When Motown Was No. 1

By WAYNE KAMIDOI from NYT Sports https://nyti.ms/2JSfBkK

When Detroit Was on Top of the Sports World

By TOM STANTON from NYT Sports https://nyti.ms/2QGTq1h

Deaths of indigenous women was 'a Canadian genocide', leaked report says

Leaked national report describes possibly thousands of deaths of indigenous women as genocide.

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2QDIbGO