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Trump, accustomed to friendly crowds, confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while addressing the Libertarian Party National Convention on Saturday night, with many in the crowd shouting insults and decrying him for things like his COVID-19 policies, running up towering federal deficits and lying about his political record.

When he took the stage, many jeered while some supporters clad in “Make America Great” hats and T-shirts cheered and chanted “USA! USA!” It was a rare moment of Trump coming face-to-face with open detractors, which is highly unusual for someone accustomed to staging rallies in front of ever-adoring crowds.
























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BLM co-founder loses 'swatting' lawsuit against LAPD

  • News source: FOX News
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Melina Abdullah lost a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday, with a jury finding that police acted appropriately in a call to her residence, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Abdullah had sued the LAPD in 2020 after officers responded to her home in an alleged "swatting" incident. Swatting is the practice of calling in fake police emergencies to a person's residence, sometimes resulting in violence.

Abdullah argued that police had known the swatting call was a hoax, but responded to her home...
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Turbulence on Doha-Dublin flight leaves 12 injured

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Dublin Airport says the Boeing 787-9 dreamliner experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey.
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Colombia begins exploring ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Exploration of a 300-year-old wreck in the Caribbean Sea with an estimate £16bn trove starts.
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Newborn babies die after fire at Delhi hospital

  • News source: BBC News - World
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At least six infants have been killed, officials said, while the hospital's owner has fled.
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Burkina Faso extends military rule by five years

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré breaks his promise to restore civillian rule by 1 July this year.
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Hamas launches rocket attack towards Tel Aviv area

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Hamas fires rockets towards the Tel Aviv area in central Israel for the first time in months.
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How plans for ‘the day after’ could help end war in Gaza

  • News source: BBC News - World
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This subject will be on the table when EU and Middle Eastern foreign ministers meet.
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PGA winner Grayson Murray, 30, dies after withdrawing from Charles Schwab Challenge

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Murray's death on Saturday morning was one day after withdrawing from the Charles Schwab Challenge citing an illness.
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Transcript: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on "Face the Nation," May 26, 2024

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The following is a transcript of an interview with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on "Face the Nation" that aired on May 26, 2024.

MARGARET BRENNAN: And we're joined by the Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. Good to have you here.

U.S. SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION PETE BUTTIGIEG: Good to be here.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You know, we look at polling and we see on both sides of the aisle griping about people feeling economic strain, but it doesn't seem to be keeping them off planes, it doesn't seem to be keeping them off the road this...
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House lawmakers visit Taiwan as China warns US to stay out

  • News source: FOX News
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN – A group of House lawmakers is in Taiwan this week meeting with its newly elected officials, despite warnings from China to stay out of the region and as Beijing ramps up its military drills around the island.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is leading the multi-day diplomatic trip, which is coming a week after President Lai Ching-te and his deputies took office with a defiant speech emphasizing Taiwan’s independence from Beijing’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

"Leading this historic and...
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Burkina Faso extends military rule by five years

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré breaks his promise to restore civillian rule by 1 July this year.
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The ANC hopes to conquer but will it struggle in South Africa poll?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The governing party wraps up its campaign for a seventh term with a rally in Soweto.
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At least 2 dead after apparent tornado tears through Texas, sheriff says

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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At least two people were killed as an apparent tornado tore through a community north of Dallas, Texas, on Saturday night, law enforcement said.
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels freed over 100 war prisoners, the Red Cross says

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The International Committee of the Red Cross says the Houthi rebels in Yemen have released more than 100 war prisoners linked to the country’s long-running conflict
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Aid trucks begin entering Gaza under agreement with Egypt to bypass Rafah

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Aid trucks have begun entering Gaza from southern Israel through a new agreement to bypass the Rafah crossing with Egypt after Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side of it earlier this month
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