| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, July 3AOC: THE U.S. IS ‘HEADED FOR FASCISM’ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called conditions at U.S. migrant detention facilities “horrifying,” and doubled down on her comparisons of the border squalor to World War II. “Are we headed to fascism? Yes. I don’t think there’s a question,” she said. [HuffPost]DETENTION CENTER HORROR REPORT The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found “dangerous overcrowding,” prolonged detention and health risks to migrants at multiple Border Patrol facilities in southern Texas. [HuffPost]PARK SERVICE REDIRECTS MILLIONS FOR 4TH The National Park Service will divert about $2.5 million in fees collected from parkgoers to help pay for the hefty costs of President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July celebration, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. [HuffPost]JUDGE UNDER FIRE FOR TOUTING TEEN’S ‘GOOD FAMILY’ IN RAPE CASE A family court judge in New Jersey has been roundly admonished by the state appeals court for ruling that a teenager accused of raping an intoxicated girl and then sharing a video of the assault with friends deserved leniency because he came from a “good family,” was an Eagle Scout and attended “an excellent school.” [HuffPost]16 DOG FOOD BRANDS MAY BE LINKED TO CANINE HEART DISEASE Federal health officials have identified 16 dog food brands that may be linked to a mysterious rise in canine heart disease, leading to warnings by veterinarians about popular “grain-free” diets. [HuffPost]TWITTER USER COULD FACE JAIL FOR LYNCHING TWEET Joseph Cecil Vandevere of North Carolina is facing possible jail time over a threatening Twitter post. Prosecutors say that when he anonymously tweeted a graphic image of a lynching to a Muslim candidate for Virginia state Senate, he was actually using interstate communication to transmit a threat ― a felony. [HuffPost]
 Become one of our first official super fans. Call yourself a founding member of HuffPost Plus forever.  AOC ‘IS RIGHT ABOUT CONCENTRATION CAMPS’ Writer Mary Catherine Ford, whose great-great uncle Clayton Triggs served as director of the Japanese American concentration camp Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II, said Ocasio-Cortez is “right to call out what’s happening in our southern border camps.” [HuffPost]CHINA: HONG KONG PROTESTS ARE ‘UNDISGUISED CHALLENGE’ China condemned violent protests in Hong Kong as an “undisguised challenge” to the formula under which the city is ruled, hours after police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who stormed and trashed the legislature. [Reuters]SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR MIGRANT DEATHS The president of El Salvador addressed the viral photo of a migrant father and his young daughter who drowned trying to seek asylum in the United States, casting blame on his own country for pushing Salvadorans to seek a safer place to live. [HuffPost]GERMANY FINES FACEBOOK $2.3 MILLION German authorities imposed a 2 million-euro ($2.3 million) fine on Facebook under a law designed to combat hate speech. The Federal Office for Justice said the social networking company had failed to meet transparency requirements for its handling of hate speech complaints. [AP]AIRSTRIKES ON MIGRANT CENTER KILL AT LEAST 40 At least 40 people were killed and 80 injured when an airstrike hit a migrant center east of the Libyan capital of Tripoli early Wednesday, according to the Health Ministry's emergency service Field Medicine and Support Center. [CNN]DUBAI RULER’S WIFE IN HIDING IN UK Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, a wife of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, a billionaire racehorse owner and has often been seen conversing with the Queen at Ascot, is in hiding in London and said to be in fear for her life after fleeing her husband. [BBC]
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