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Select list of winners at the 2024 Tony Awards

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“Suffs” won the Tony Award for best book of a musical and Dede Ayite's work on “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” won best costume design of a play as the pre-show began Sunday
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Biden fundraises in California as Trump rallies in Detroit

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President Biden attended a star-studded fundraiser in California over the weekend. Meanwhile, former president Trump held a rally in Detroit. Skyler Henry reports.
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More people turning away from news, report says

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News avoidance is now at record high levels, the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report says.
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Malawians pay tribute to vice-president killed in plane crash

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Saulos Chilima, 51, was seen as a breath of fresh air and was especially popular among young people.
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'Hackers leaked intimate photos after my laptop was stolen'

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A Spanish filmmaker turned the cameras on herself and made a "sextortion diary" after being blackmailed.
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Too much of a good thing? Spain's green energy can exceed demand

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Spain is looking at storing electricity or increasing demand to solve electricity oversupply.
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2 killed when vintage plane crashes during Father's Day event at Southern California airfield

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Two people were killed when a vintage airplane crashed and burst into flames near a Southern California airfield during a weekend father's day event hosted by an air museum
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Americans believe US should focus more on domestic issues, but support leadership on world stage: poll

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A majority of Americans believe the U.S. should focus more on issues at home and withdraw from foreign affairs, despite an increasing number of Americans believing the U.S. should be more engaged and take the lead when it comes to international events.

Just under two-thirds of Americans, 62%, believe the U.S. would be "better served by withdrawing from international affairs and focusing more attention on problems here at home," according to the results of the Ronald Reagan Institute’s 2024 summer survey, which was shared exclusively with Fox News...
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At least 14 Hajj pilgrims die in intense heat

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Jordan's foreign ministry said its nationals had died "after suffering sun stroke due to the extreme heatwave".
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The anti-abortion movement is making a big play to thwart citizen initiatives on reproductive rights

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They fight proposed ballot initiatives intended to protect reproductive rights.
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Potentially deadly heat wave envelops most of the nation

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More than 55 million people across the nation were under an alert for extreme heat on Sunday and through most of the week ahead.
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Turner says Johnson will "assert leadership" if any "improper" behavior by in committee

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Washington — Rep. Mike Turner, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that he expects Speaker Mike Johnson to intervene should any "improper" behavior occur after the speaker appointed two controversial Trump allies to the committee.

"He's going to continue to monitor the situation," Turner said Sunday of Johnson on "Face the Nation," adding that "if there's any indication of anything improper happening," he expects that "the speaker will assert leadership here."

Johnson appointed two hardline Republicans, Reps. Scott...
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Schumer to bring up vote on gun bump stocks ban after Supreme Court decision

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Washington — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Sunday that he plans to bring up a vote this week on restoring a ban on bump stocks, devices that greatly increase the rate of fire of semi-automatic weapons, after the Supreme Court invalidated a federal rule that outlawed the device days ago.

Caling the Supreme Court a "MAGA court" and saying they have "gone off the edges of the far right yet again," Schumer said Sunday at a news conference that he plans to bring up a vote on restoring the bump stock ban under unanimous consent...
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Trump resurrects Biden's 'devastating' 1994 crime bill as he courts Black Detroit voters: ‘Super predators'

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Former President Trump courted Black voters in Detroit Saturday, when he raised President Biden's authorship of the 1994 crime bill, which remains a sore point after three decades.

Headlining a roundtable discussion at the predominantly Black 180 Church as his campaign was announcing the launch of a Black voter coalition, Trump noted that rising crime rates hurt his audience's community the most.

"Look, the crime is most rampant right here and in African American communities," Trump said Saturday in Detroit. "More people see me, and they say, ‘Sir, we want protection. We want police to protect us. We don’t want to get robbed and mugged and beat up or killed because we want to walk across the street to buy a loaf of bread.’"

Trump took aim at Biden and the Biden-Harris campaign during his remarks, recalling how Biden, as a senator in 1994, authored the
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6/16: Face the Nation

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This week on "Face the Nation," Margaret Brennan speaks to Bill Gates as he moves ahead with a nuclear power plant in Wyoming. Plus, House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Mike Turner joins to discuss new security threats.
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