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| Obama, Bill Clinton play golf together on Martha's Vineyard | | Sunday, August 16, 2015 3:01 AM | |
|  By Jeff Mason OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton played golf together on Saturday ahead of an evening birthday celebration for Washington power broker and mutual friend Vernon Jordan. The birthday bash reunites Obama and his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate who is under fire for using a private email server during her time as the top U.S. diplomat. Obama is vacationing with his family on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard and has spent much of the past week on the golf course.
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| More than a thousand mourn Texas teen fatally shot by officer | | Sunday, August 16, 2015 2:40 AM | |
| | By Marice Richter ARLINGTON Texas (Reuters) - More than 1,000 mourners attended a funeral on Saturday for Christian Taylor, an unarmed 19-year-old African American fatally shot by a white officer in Texas in an incident that raised fresh attention of police treatment of racial minorities. Teammates from Angelo State University where Taylor played football and friends remembered him at a church in the Dallas-area city of Arlington as a person full of energy who had much to offer. Former Arlington police officer Brad Miller, a 49-year-old trainee, was fired this week for what the department said was his poor judgment in events surrounding the shooting last week of Taylor, who had broken into an auto dealership and was vandalizing cars. |
| Dominican Republic resumes deportation of migrants deemed illegal | | Sunday, August 16, 2015 2:32 AM | |
| | By Jorge Pineda SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic deported five people of Haitian descent on Saturday under a controversial migration policy that set a deadline for undocumented foreigners to apply for temporary residence, according to local media. Immigration Director General Rubén Paulino Sem confirmed the deportations at the Dajabón border post on Saturday morning, according to the Listín Diario newspaper. Officials in the Dominican Republic have grown concerned by a long-running influx of people from neighboring Haiti and a 2013 Dominican court ruling that stripped citizenship from children born to undocumented immigrants, the vast majority of which are Haitian. |
| Arrest made in shooting that prompted New Mexico 911 dispatcher to resign | | Sunday, August 16, 2015 2:29 AM | |
| | By Joseph J. Kolb ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Police in New Mexico have arrested the 18-year-old son of a state lawmaker in connection with a drive-by shooting that made headlines after it was revealed that an emergency services dispatcher had hung up on a teenage girl who was trying to assist the victim. Seventeen-year-old Jaydon Chavez-Silver died in the June shooting in Albuquerque and the 911 dispatcher, Matthew Sanchez, resigned late last month. On Saturday, Albuquerque police said they had arrested the suspected shooter in the case, Donovan Maez of Albuquerque, late Friday night. |
| Trump says he'd deport undocumented immigrants as U.S. president | | Sunday, August 16, 2015 2:22 AM | |
|  Republican presidential contender Donald Trump would deport all undocumented immigrants and rescind U.S. President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration if he is elected to the White House, he said in an interview with NBC News that will air on Sunday. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," Trump told NBC's "Meet the Press," according to an excerpt released on Saturday. Asked by host Chuck Todd about illegal immigrants who might have nowhere else to go, Trump said: "We will work with them.
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| Brazil prosecutors find Olympic village workers living in squalor | | | A company working on the Olympic village that will receive athletes in Rio de Janeiro next year has housed some of its own workers in conditions that public prosecutors compared to slavery. A sting by a Rio labor court and Brazil's labor ministry found 11 workers living in squalor as part of their work for Brasil Global Serviços, which is subcontracting on the Ilha Pura residential complex for the 2016 Olympic Games. Many slept outside given all the filth," said prosecutor Valeria Correa in a public statement on Friday. |
| After legal battle, Lee Harvey Oswald gravestone returns to Texas | |  By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - A Dallas man won a long battle to retrieve a notorious piece of U.S. history, the gravestone of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, which came back to Texas this week from a small-town Illinois museum after a years of legal fights. David Card had to fight relatives and an Illinois museum to bring back the headstone that spent a few years on the grave of the man who shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas. "It was ours, and it is the original headstone of the most famous and infamous assassin in the history of Western civilization . maybe of all time," said Card, owner of a prominent Dallas music club, who is limited on what he can say under terms of the settlement deal.
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| U.S. military looks into moving some Guantanamo detainees to military sites - media | |  The U.S. Department of Defense is sending a team to military installations in Kansas and South Carolina to investigate the possibility of relocating some Guantanamo Bay prisoners to U.S. soil, media outlets reported on Saturday. Fox News and CNN said the Pentagon on Friday notified the U.S. Congress that the team was already visiting the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and would then survey the naval brig at Charleston, South Carolina, in the coming weeks. Republicans, who control Congress, swiftly condemned the idea of moving detainees into the United States and close to major military posts, according to Fox News.
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| Brazilian police under investigation over Sao Paulo killing spree | | | Brazilian police are investigating whether a string of 18 murders in metropolitan Sao Paulo on Thursday night were a coordinated act of revenge by off-duty officers following the nearby deaths of two colleagues in the previous week. The killings have raised concerns of more reprisals in Brazil, where police are responsible for more than 2,000 deaths per year and off-duty officers rarely face prosecution when they are suspected of vigilante justice. The same vehicles were identified at the site of multiple shootings in a three-hour period, said Alexandre de Moraes, secretary of public safety for Sao Paulo state, after meeting on Friday with a task force investigating the crimes. |
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