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Today's Top News Compilation - Monday, June 15, 2020

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Below are some of the top political news stories of the day: ¯\_(?)_/¯

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Supreme Court says gay, transgender workers protected by law
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Supreme Court won't hear Trump administration challenge to California's immigrant 'sanctuary' law
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Trump: Former adviser Bolton faces charges if book released
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Trump on coronavirus: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any'
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Trump to sign police reform executive order on Tuesday
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Trump announces major US troop cut in ‘delinquent’ Germany
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Trump calls Bolton's memoir 'highly inappropriate' as WH readies legal action to stop publication
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Gorsuch draws surprise, anger with LGBT decision
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Senate GOP to restrict police chokeholds in emerging bill
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FDA revokes permission to treat COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine, drug previously touted by Trump
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Fed to start buying debt from corporations in expansion of rescue effort
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Trump rally attendees will have fewer safety measures than high-dollar donors
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Trump campaign to provide temperature checks, face masks to Tulsa rally attendees
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Trump predicts a court battle over John Bolton's book
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House demands coronavirus loan info from Treasury
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Biden says 'race-neutral' policies won't address disparities
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Biden campaign and DNC raise more than $80 million in May
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Biden is far less unpopular than Hillary Clinton was four years ago, polling shows
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Hamas turns over correct body of hostage Shiri Bibas

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Hostage Shiri Bibas's body has been returned to Israel after Hamas turned over the wrong body on Thursday.
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Trans Euphoria star says new passport lists her as male

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Hunter Schafer, a transgender woman, hits out at President Donald Trump's policies on gender.
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Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in shake-up at Pentagon

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The new Pentagon chief had accused CQ Brown of a "woke" focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programmes.
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19 things Trump and his team did this week

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In his fifth week in office, Trump called Zelensky a dictator, sought more federal civil service cuts and dropped in on Nascar.
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'The smallest coffins are the heaviest': Israel grieves youngest hostages

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The return of the children in coffins, and their mother's absence, is being painfully felt across the country.
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Officers conducting a welfare check find 5 people dead in Indiana home

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Police conducting a welfare check have discovered five people dead inside a home in northwest Indiana
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DOJ issues complaint about federal judge’s ‘misconduct’ while presiding over military trans ban court case

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent a written complaint about U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes to the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Sri Srinivasan, following a tense case between the Trump administration and two LGBTQ groups.

The letter, signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Chief of Staff, Chad Mizelle, concerns what the DOJ characterized as Reyes’ "misconduct" during the proceedings in Nicolas Talbott et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al., a case brought by two LGBTQ groups challenging the...
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Sweden investigates suspected sabotage of undersea telecoms cable

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A Baltic Sea cable has been damaged for the third time in recent months, Finnish telecom operators say.
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Tesla recalls more than 375,000 vehicles in U.S. due to failing power-assisted steering systems

  • News source: Lora Kolodny, CNBC
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Tesla is voluntarily recalling 376,241vehicles in the U.S. to correct an issue with failing power-assisted steering systems, according to records posted to the website of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

In a safety recall report posted on the NHTSA website, Tesla said the recall includes Model 3 and Model Y vehicles that were manufactured for sale in the U.S. from Feb. 28, 2023, to October 11, 2023, and that were equipped with a certain older software release.

The records said printed circuit boards in the steering systems...
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Pentagon to fire 5,400 probationary workers, institute hiring freeze

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The Defense Department said Friday that it's cutting about 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

It comes after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, were at the Pentagon earlier in the week and received lists of such employees, U.S. officials said. They said those lists did not include uniformed military personnel, who are exempt. Probationary employees are generally those on the job for less than a year and who have yet to gain civil service protection.

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Judge blocks parts of Trump executive orders targeting DEI, citing free speech

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A federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction over parts of the Trump administration’s executive orders on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

The injunction largely blocks the sections of President Donald Trump's orders that seek to end federal support for programs deemed to be DEI-related, and prevents the Trump administration from canceling contracts that they believe promote diversity, equity or inclusion.

U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore, a Biden nominee, ruled that parts of the executive orders likely violate the...
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Trump says deal with Ukraine for US access to its rare earth minerals is ‘pretty close’

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President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration is "pretty close" to striking a deal with Ukraine for rights to access its natural resources in exchange for the United States’ billions of dollars in support for the country against Russia.

"You know, I think they want it, and they feel good about it," Trump told reporters on Friday in the Oval Office after the swearing-in ceremony of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. "And it's significant. It's a big deal. But they want it, and it keeps us in that country. And they're very happy about it...
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Supreme Court pauses Trump administration's effort to fire head of whistleblower protection agency

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday paused the Trump administration's efforts to dismiss the head of an independent agency charged with investigating whistleblower claims as the president seeks to remake the federal government.

The decision allows
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Trump spars with Dem governor at White House over transgender executive order

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At a White House event with a bipartisan group of governors Friday, President Donald Trump briefly sparred with Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills.
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Trump nominates Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan 'Razin' Caine for Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman

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President Donald Trump on Friday night nominated Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"General Caine is an accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur, and a "warfighter" with significant interagency and special operations experience," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social announcing the nomination.

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Trump said during his first term, Caine was "instrumental" in the "complete...
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