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Convicted murderer Charles Manson died Sunday evening of natural causes at California’s Kern County Hospital, the California Department of Corrections announced in a statement. The sister of one of Manson’s victims, Debra Tate, had earlier told TMZ the California state prison where Manson spent the last several decades behind bars had begun notifying his victims. Manson had been serving out a life sentence for the notorious Manson Family murders, which claimed actress Sharon Tate among nine victims in a series of brutal killings that terrified Los Angeles in 1969. | |
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President Trump on Monday slammed the Oakland Raiders’ Marshawn Lynch, also known as “Beast Mode,” for refusing to stand for the U.S. national anthem but standing for the Mexican anthem. “Great disrespect!” Trump tweeted. “Next time NFL should suspend him for remainder of season. Attendance and ratings way down.” Lynch stood for the Mexican anthem on Sunday in Azteca Stadium in Mexico City before a game against the New England Patriots. He has not stood for the American national anthem since he returned from retirement this season. | |
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Jana Novotna, the tennis champion who won the 1998 women’s singles at Wimbledon, has died after a long battle with cancer, according to the Women’s Tennis Association. She was 49 years old. Novotna won 24 singles titles as well as that Wimbledon championship. A statement from the WTA said, “Jana died peacefully, surrounded by her family in her native Czech Republic.” Steve Simon, chief executive of the association, added, “Jana was an inspiration both on and off court to anyone who had the opportunity to know her.” | |
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Caitlan Coleman, the American woman who was held hostage by Taliban fighters for five years, detailed the brutal treatment she endured while captive during a new interview with ABC News. Coleman, 31, was abducted in Afghanistan with her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, 34, and had three children in captivity. Coleman said she was raped and beaten trying to protect her children. She said their guards, who “hated children,” regularly targeted her eldest son. According to her husband, she sustained serious injuries during her fight to keep her children safe from those guards. “She had a broken cheekbone,” Boyle said. “She actually broke her own hand punching one of them. She broke her fingers, so she was very proud of that injury.” | |
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The true cost of the opioid epidemic in 2015 was $504 billion, according to a report released by the White House on Sunday night. That figure is more than six times bigger than the most recent estimate determined by a private study, the Council of Economic Advisers will say in an analysis to be released Monday. “Previous estimates of the economic cost of the opioid crisis greatly underestimate it by undervaluing the most important component of the loss—fatalities resulting from overdoses,” said the report. President Trump declared opioid abuse a national public-health emergency last month. | |
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In the wake of a fatal crash in Okinawa, the U.S. military has banned all service members in Japan from drinking alcohol. A Japanese driver was killed Sunday in a collision with a Marine, who reportedly had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit. “It’s the same thing over and over again every time. I’m speechless,” said Takeshi Onaga, Okinawa’s governor. The commanding general of U.S. Marine Forces Japan released a statement conveying his “deepest regret and sincere condolences to the family and friends of the Okinawan man who died as a result of this accident.” The military has also reportedly ordered all service members stationed in Okinawa to stay on their base or in their homes. | |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said talks to form a new three-way coalition government have failed, throwing the country’s leadership into turmoil. “It is a day of deep reflection on how to go forward in Germany, ” Merkel told reporters after announcing the news. “As chancellor, I will do everything to ensure that this country is well managed in the difficult weeks to come,” she said. Her comments came as the pro-business Free Democratic Party unexpectedly broke off talks with Merkel’s conservative bloc and the ecologist Greens after more than four weeks of negotiations. The breakdown of talks leaves Merkel without a majority in parliament just months after her party, the Christian Democratic Union, suffered its worst result since 1949 in the general election. Merkel can now form a minority government—which would be unprecedented in post-World War Two Germany—or the president can call snap elections. Merkel said she will remain on as acting chancellor and consult with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on how to proceed. | |
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Investigators in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia election collusion probe have directed the Justice Department to hand over communications on former FBI Director James Comey’s firing, ABC News reports. Citing a source familiar with the matter, the report said investigators are seeking not only emails between Justice Department officials on the matter but also communications with their White House counterparts. The directive, which would mark the first records request by Mueller’s team to the Justice Department, seems to suggest investigators are reviewing whether any officials obstructed the Russia investigation, which had been under Comey’s control until his abrupt dismissal in May. President Trump, who has repeatedly ridiculed the investigation and dismissed claims of Russian election interference, said he was acting on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in firing Comey at the time. | |
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said he was flattered when critics compared him and his wife to James Bond villains after a photo of them showing off newly printed dollar bills surfaced last week. “I never thought I’d be quoted as looking like villains from James Bond. I guess I should take that as a compliment that I look like a villain in a great, successful James Bond movie,” Mnuchin said Sunday in an interview on Fox News Sunday. Mnuchin said he was not aware the photo would be published but that he’d posed because he was “excited having my signature on the money” and he looks “forward to helping the American people.” The photo at the center of the controversy showed Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, who was clad in long leather gloves and a black trench coat, holding up the currency during a visit to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington. Linton has previously stirred controversy with social-media posts in which critics say she flaunts her wealth, name-dropping expensive fashion designers during official trips with her husband. | |
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