Extremists breach Palmyra museum amid airstrikes near Tadmur
Islamic State fighters broke into the Palmyra museum as U S led coalition aircraft attacked positions near the town. A Syrian official said artifacts were removed and safe while experts warned the strike came too late to avert looting of the 2000 year old temples and colonnades.
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Damascus
Palmyra
Homs
Department of Defense
Tadmur
Islamic State Group
Bashar Assad
Pipeline leak exposes lack of shut off valve in county
A California coast pipeline leaked up to 105000 gallons of crude oil, with as much as 21000 gallons reaching Refugio Beach. The line, the county’s only major pipeline without an automatic shut-off valve, escaped federal oversight due to a 1980s court ruling. Plains All American Pipeline draining and sending the damaged section to a lab as regulators require.
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Los Angeles
California
Santa Barbara
Kevin Drude
Energy and Minerals Division
Drude
Refugio State Beach
NSA ends bulk phone data collection as Senate fails deal
The NSA begins winding down its mass collection and storage of American phone records after Senate rejection of a path forward before the Patriot Act provisions sunset. The USA Freedom Act failed by three votes, delaying a two month extension. fallout impacts FBI surveillance tools and case by case queries to phone companies. Rand Paul praised the move as a privacy win while civil liberties groups lauded the expiration of the Patriot Act provisions.
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Washington
National Security Agency
Senate
FBI
NSA
Barack Obama
House
Mitch McConnell
Kentucky
Justice Department
Administration
U.S
Rand Paul
Paul
Michael Macleod-Ball
ACLU
Nuala O’connor
Center For Democracy and Technology
Ireland votes for gay marriage in landslide referendum
Ireland approved gay marriage by 62.1 percent in a national referendum the first by citizens to legalize same sex marriage. The result marks a social revolution with Catholic leaders and rights advocates noting the shift as Dublin celebrated outside Dublin Castle.
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Dublin
Ireland
Dublin Castle
Enda Kenny
Joan Burton
U.S
Roscommon- South Leitrim
Boggy
Yes
Diarmuid Martin
Martin
Police kill man who held girlfriend captive in crate
In western Missouri a man charged with kidnapping his former girlfriend Sandra Sutton and holding her in a crate for four months was killed by law enforcement at a state wildlife area south of Knob Noster. Sutton and her 17-year-old son Zachary were found dead at a relative’s home in Clinton. Authorities say the suspect James Barton Horn Jr. hid in a closet and threatened officers with a handgun when asked to surrender. The probe will compare Horn’s weapon to murder scene evidence.
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Kansas City
Missouri
James Barton Horn Jr
Knob Noster
Henry County
Kent Oberkrom
Horn
Sandra Kay Sutton
Sutton
Sedalia
Zachary Wade Sutton
Veterans split on Iraq invasion amid political backlash
Veterans of the Iraq War debate if the 2003 invasion was right as Republican contenders now distance themselves from the war. Some feel the sacrifices were in vain while others defend the mission and reject the idea of a do over. Veterans like Diacogiannis Hinde Keown Kriesel cite mixed views on accountability and outcomes.
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Gregory Diacogiannis
Baghdad
Baqouba
Diacogiannis
Iraq
U.S
Jeb Bush
George W. Bush
Saddam Hussein
New Jersey
Chris Christie
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