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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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A woman whose husband died in Friday’s train accident waits outside a mortuary Monday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Orissa, India. Families of the victims of India’s deadliest train crash in decades filled the hospital on Monday to identify and collect bodies of relatives, as railway officials recommended the country’s premier criminal investigating agency to probe the crash that killed 275 people.

As India grieves train crash that killed 275, relatives try to identify bodies of loved ones

Families of the victims of India's deadliest train crash in decades filled a hospital in Bhubaneswar city on Monday to identify and collect bodies of relatives, as railway officials recommended a federal criminal probe of the crash that killed 275 people.
Former President Donald Trump greets supporters before speaking Friday at the Westside Conservative Breakfast in Des Moines, Iowa.

Trump lawyers meet with Justice Department as charging decision nears in Mar-a-Lago case

Lawyers for Donald Trump met with Justice Department officials on Monday as a decision nears on whether to bring charges over the handling of classified documents at the former president's Florida estate.
Former Vice President Mike Pence talks with local residents during a meet and greet in Des Moines, Iowa. Pence will officially launch his widely expected campaign for the Republican nomination for president in Iowa on June 7.

Former Vice President Pence files paperwork launching 2024 presidential bid

Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork on Monday declaring his campaign for president in 2024, setting up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House ended with an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Pence fleeing for his life.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex leave after a service of thanksgiving for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Lawyer says 'nothing was out of bounds' for reporters seeking scoops on young Prince Harry

No event in the life of a young Prince Harry was too trivial or private for the journalists of Mirror Group Newspapers to resist, and the demand for such scoops led to the use of illegal means to dig up dirt, his lawyer said Monday in the opening of his phone hacking lawsuit.
FILE — Sections of a USA Today newspaper are displayed Aug. 5, 2019, in Norwood, Mass. Journalists across the U.S. will walk off their jobs next week at publications owned by Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the U.S. The mostly one-day strike, which will start Monday, June 5, 2023, aims to protest the company’s leadership and cost-cutting measures imposed since its 2019 merger with GateHouse Media.
Hundreds of journalists strike to demand leadership change at biggest US newspaper chain
Journalists at two dozen local newspapers across the U.S. walked off the job Monday to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at Gannett, the country's biggest newspaper chain.
The cosmetics brand L’Oréal is spelled with colorful balloons at the WeHo Pride Parade Sunday in West Hollywood, California. Longtime Pride sponsors have come under attack by conservatives for their LGBTQ-friendly marketing.
Pride becomes a minefield for big companies, but many continue their support
Many big companies, including Target and Bud Light's parent, are still backing Pride events in June despite the minefield that the monthlong celebration has become for some of them.
FILE — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives for the European Political Community Summit at the Mimi Castle in Bulboaca, Moldova. President Joe Biden is welcoming Denmark and Britain’s prime ministers this week to Washington for talks that will focus heavily on what lays ahead in the war in Ukraine — including the recently launched effort to train, and eventually equip, Ukraine with American-made F-16s fighter jets.
Biden set for critical talks on Ukraine this week with Denmark's Frederiksen, UK's Sunak
President Joe Biden is welcoming Denmark and Britain's prime ministers this week to Washington for talks that will focus heavily on what lays ahead in the war in Ukraine -- including the recently-launched effort to train, and eventually equip, Ukraine with American-made F-16s fighter jets.
Search and rescue teams leave the command post at St. Mary’s Wilderness Sunday en route to the Blue Ridge Parkway to search for the site where a Cessna Citation crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia.
Unresponsive pilot seen slumped over before Virginia plane crash that killed 4, officials say
The pilot of a business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in a remote part of Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, three U.S. officials said Monday, recounting observations by fighter pilots who intercepted the wayward flight.
The Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed in a showroom on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., at the company’s annual developers conference, Monday, June 5, 2023.
Apple unveils sleek, $3,500 'Vision Pro' goggles. Will they be what VR has been looking for?
Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter's ability to popularize newfangled devices after others failed to capture the public's imagination.
Delfina Gomez, Mexico state gubernatorial candidate for the National Regeneration Movement, or MORENA, celebrates her electoral victory during local state elections in Toluca, Mexico state, Mexico, Sunday, June 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Mexico president's ruling party ousts once-dominant party in most populous state
The ruling party of Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the governorship of the country's most populous state, dealing a life-threatening blow to the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party -- or PRI -- which had governed the State of Mexico without interruption for nearly a century.
Branden Colvin Jr., center, lights candles for his father, Branden Colvin Sr., with Devina Henderson, left, and Malia Rush, right, during a candlelight vigil Sunday for Colvin, Ryan Hitchcock and Daniel Prien at the site of a building collapse in Davenport, Iowa. The three men had been missing since the partial collapse of the apartment building on May 28. Colvin has since been confirmed to have died in the collapse.
Three bodies recovered in Iowa building collapse; lawsuit accuses city and owners of negligence
The bodies of three men have been removed from the site of a collapsed six-story apartment building, the police chief in Davenport, Iowa, announced Monday.
Myla Martinez, 6-year-old, enthusiastically greets her mother Crystal Martinez as she and her four younger siblings spend time her with her during a special visit May 20 at Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois. They got to see each other through the Reunification Ride, which buses prisoners’ family members from Chicago to Illinois’ largest women’s prison every month.
Sharing the sentence: Separation takes toll on incarcerated moms and their kids
The number of incarcerated women in the United States dropped by tens of thousands because of COVID-19. But as the criminal justice system returns to business as usual and prison populations creep back to pre-pandemic norms, more children are being separated from their mothers, putting them at greater risk of health and behavioral problems and making them vulnerable to abuse and displacement.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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