| No Images? Click here  Monday, June 10HORSE HELL AS DEATH TOLL HITS 29 The California Horse Racing Board asked Santa Anita to suspend racing for the six remaining race days of its season, which began Dec. 26 and ends June 23. The track in Arcadia denied the request, which came amid the death of two more horses this weekend. [HuffPost]2020 DEMS PITCH IOWA PARTY LEADERS Nineteen Democratic presidential candidates delivered rapid-fire sales pitches to Iowa party leaders on Sunday, touting their ability to energize voters, win the White House and deliver on longtime party goals such as universal health care. [Reuters]DAVID ORTIZ SHOT IN THE BACK Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was hospitalized following surgery for a gunshot wound after being ambushed by a man in a bar in his native Dominican Republic, authorities said. [AP]‘HADESTOWN’ WINS BIG AT TONY AWARDS Broadway’s “Hadestown” was named the 2019 Tony Award winner for Best Musical. Anaïs Mitchell’s jazz and blues-inflected “folk opera” beat out competitors like “The Prom” and “Tootsie” for the top prize, bringing its total to eight trophies. [HuffPost]PROTESTS IN HONG KONG STREETS Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to oppose government-sponsored legislation that would allow people to be extradited to mainland China to face charges. [AP]AMERICAN AIRLINES EXTENDS BOEING CANCELLATIONS American Airlines is extending cancellations of all Boeing 737 Max flights through Sept. 3 as the manufacturer fixes software in the wake of two fatal crashes involving the model. The airline had earlier canceled flights involving the aircraft through Aug. 19. [HuffPost]
 Help us tell more stories from real people, in their words. Become a member so we can deliver the voices you want to hear.  WATERGATE FIGURE TESTIFIES John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard M. Nixon so-called master manipulator of the Watergate scandal, is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee today. President Donald Trump took to Twitter Sunday to call Dean a “sleazebag.” [HuffPost]AMBASSADOR WON’T CONFIRM TRADE PACT Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S. would not confirm that a new immigration-focused deal with Mexico to avert a trade war includes an agreement by the U.S. neighbor to “immediately” begin buying “large quantities” of U.S. farm products ― as Trump claimed in a tweet over the weekend. [HuffPost]4 NEW BODIES FOUND ON EVEREST As a Mount Everest cleaning crew removed over 24,000 pounds of garbage discarded by mountaineers, including food wrappers and oxygen tanks, they discovered something far more disturbing in the melting snow: four corpses. [HuffPost]N.Y. PREPARES TO REPLACE JAIL WITH SOLAR FARM The New York City Council is preparing to consider a trio of bills that would set the stage to convert the infamously violent jail complex on Rikers Island into a solar farm and wastewater treatment facility. [HuffPost]NASA OPENS UP INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION For the first time, NASA is planning to open the International Space Station to private citizens, allowing commercial companies to arrange tours that could cost as much as $58 million per person, officials said. [HuffPost]TEXAS RAISES LEGAL SMOKING AGE Texas has joined a growing number of states in banning the use and sale of tobacco products to those under the age of 21, with an exception to those in the military. The new law, which will go into effect on Sept. 1, includes a ban on e-cigarette sales to those under 21. [HuffPost]
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