| No Images? Click here  Monday, July 9FIFTH BOY FREED IN THAILAND A fifth boy was rescued from the Tham Luang Cave in Thailand on Monday morning, after four boys were freed on Sunday. Eight people remain trapped ― seven boys and their 25-year-old soccer coach. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]‘THOSE BEHIND THIS ARE MURDERERS’ A British woman died after being exposed to Russia’s Novichok nerve agent in western England a few miles from where Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned four months ago. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said she was appalled and shocked by the death. Local police have launched a murder inquiry. [HuffPost]SCOTUS SPOILER? Leonard Leo, the judicial activist advising on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick to replace Anthony Kennedy, has said that two names on the president’s shortlist — Raymond Kethledge and Thomas Hardiman — have less-established conservative records than other possible picks, making it harder to line up right-wing support. Here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s top picks. [Reuters]‘CRIED HYSTERICALLY’ A year-old baby boy being held in federal custody appeared in immigration court without his parents in Phoenix on Friday. The toddler briefly played with a ball, drank from a bottle, then “cried hysterically.” The judge said he was “embarrassed” to ask if the boy understood the proceedings. [HuffPost]CORPORATIONS OVER KIDS The Trump administration used intimidation and threats to try and block a noncontroversial breastfeeding resolution at the World Health Assembly earlier this year because it called on governments to “protect, promote and support breastfeeding.” Why? Reportedly because it didn’t want to upset the corporations that make breast milk substitutes. [HuffPost]ICE IS ‘INTENTIONALLY GOING BACKWARDS’ The latest data on Immigration and Customs Enforcement reveals the agency is making increasingly indiscriminate arrests, going after people with traffic tickets and DUI and simple drug possession convictions. [HuffPost] PUTIN’S PUPPET When Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin this month, will he be meeting his counterpart of his handler? Jonathan Chait looks at the possibility that the collusion is far deeper than feared. [New York Magazine] BREXIT BEDLAM Britain’s Brexit Secretary David Davis abruptly quit the government Sunday, delivering a huge blow to Prime Minister Theresa May’s authority and throwing further uncertainty on the Brexit deal agreed by her Cabinet last week. Dominic Raab has been appointed his replacement. [Reuters] ‘WHERE ARE THE BABIES?’ Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Saturday was confronted by protesters in Louisville over the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border policy, with one man asking the Senate Majority Leader: “Where are the babies, Mitch?” [HuffPost] IVANKA SPARED TARIFFS Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods conveniently don’t touch products used for Ivanka Trump’s fashion line, which — of course — are made in China. [HuffPost] ‘LARGE-SCALE FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES’ More than 100 people have died in Japan after major flooding sparked landslides. [CNN] ‘THEY’RE STONEWALLING EVERY STEP OF THE WAY’ The Environmental Protection Agency is suppressing a bombshell report warning that most Americans inhale enough formaldehyde vapor to risk developing leukemia, agency officials told Politico. [HuffPost] 
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