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«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Woman who hid gun in her vagina gets probation in drug case

WACO, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman who police said packed a loaded pistol in her vagina has been sentenced to probation after she pleaded guilty to drug possession. Waco police say that when Castaneda was arrested in 2015, she told officers on her way to McLennan County Jail that she was packing a loaded handgun in her birth canal.

TheRepublic.com 

Low scores at Erin Hills has traditionalists seeing red

ERIN, Wis. — Brooks Koepka is a modern golfer who won his first major on a modern golf course. That would be one way to look back at this U.S. Open. No one played better. No one did a better job of answering every challenge. He putted for birdie on every hole except the 13th,

WSJ.com 

Anatomy of a Witch Hunt

The Trump-Russia scare comes from the same playbook as fake cancer scares.

PBS.org 

News Wrap: Georgia voters cast ballots in House special election

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The battle over tax cuts is heating up.

The speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, promised today that Republicans are moving full-speed ahead, despite divisions over the issue.

In a Washington speech, he said the GOP majorities in Congress must press for he called transformational tax reform.

REP. PAUL RYAN, R-Wis., Speaker of the House: We have to get this done in 2017. We cannot let this once-in-a-generation moment slip by. Читать дальше...

Voice of America 

MSCI to Add Chinese Mainland Shares to Emerging Markets

Chinese stocks will be included for the first time in a leading U.S. index of emerging market shares. The New York-based index giant MSCI said Tuesday that it would add 222 Chinese A shares beginning next year. "International investors have embraced the positive changes in the accessibility of the China A shares market over the last few years, and now all conditions are set for MSCI to proceed with the first step of the inclusion," Remy Briand, MSCI managing director and chairman of the MSCI Index Policy Committee, said in a release. Читать дальше...