| No Images? Click here  Thursday, June 13IOWA GOP WELCOMES SUPREMACIST STEVE Only five months ago, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) condoned white supremacy in an interview with The New York Times. He arrived early at the “America First Dinner with President Donald J. Trump” on Tuesday. [HuffPost]TRUMP WOULD ‘ACCEPT DIRT’ ON OPPONENTS Trump said he would accept information from a foreign government on his opponents in the 2020 presidential election, and suggested during his interview with ABC News that he wouldn’t alert the FBI. [HuffPost]OIL TANKERS ATTACKED IN GULF OF OMAN Two tankers were hit in suspected attacks in the Gulf of Oman and the crews have reportedly been evacuated. Four tankers in the region were struck a month ago. [Reuters]BRIAN SINGER TO PAY $150,000 OVER RAPE CLAIM “Bohemian Rhapsody” director Bryan Singer has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a rape accusation. The filmmaker continues to deny wrongdoing, saying the settlement was a financial calculation and not an admission of guilt. [HuffPost]OLYMPIC HOPEFUL DIES AT 32 Gabriele “Gabe” Grunewald, a national champion runner and Olympic hopeful who publicly chronicled her battle with metastatic cancer on social media while giving hope to others, has died. She was 32. [HuffPost]HONG KONG POLICE TURN VIOLENT AT PROTESTS Hong Kong police fired tear gas and high-pressure water hoses against protesters massed in opposition to an extradition bill that has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the semi-autonomous territory. [AP]
 Become one of our first official super fans. Call yourself a founding member of HuffPost Plus forever.  ALL-MALE COUNCIL VOTES TO BAN ABORTIONS The five-member, all-male city council of Waskom, Texas, unanimously voted this week to turn the town into a “sanctuary city for the unborn” by banning most abortions within city limits. It’s reportedly the first Texas city to pass such a mandate. [HuffPost]DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TOURIST DEATHS Authorities in the Dominican Republic have tapped the FBI to help investigate the mysterious deaths of at least six American tourists at Dominican resorts since June 2018. Several others have reported falling violently ill on vacation there. [HuffPost]MAN CHARGED WITH KILLING TRANSGENDER WOMAN A Dallas man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Muhlaysia Booker, a 23-year-old transgender woman. Booker was found shot to death on May 18. She’d earlier made national headlines after a video circulated on social media showing her being assaulted by a mob of men. [HuffPost]CAGES ‘WITH KIDS’ POP UP AROUND NYC More than 20 cages were placed around New York Wednesday, each containing a child-size mannequin, with audio playing of migrant children crying. They were intended to highlight the plight of migrants being held in alarming conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border. [HuffPost]SARA NETANYAHU PLEADS GUILTY TO CORRUPTION Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, agreed to a plea deal in a case concerning illegally ordered meals at the prime minister's residence, according to a statement released by Israel's Justice Ministry. [CNN]BIEL OUT AS ANTI-VAXX ACTIVIST Actress Jessica Biel appeared alongside environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday to lobby against a California bill that would limit medical exemptions from vaccinations. Kennedy’s work has focused increasingly on baseless allegations that vaccines are unsafe. [Daily Beast]
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