| No Images? Click here  Friday, July 12R. KELLY ARRESTED The singer R. Kelly was arrested by federal agents and New York police in Chicago on a new spate of sex crimes charges. A 13-count federal indictment includes charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice, adding to sex assault and abuse charges from earlier this year. [HuffPost]RUSSIAN MISSILE SYSTEM EQUIPMENT ARRIVES IN TURKEY The first shipment of the Russian-made S-400 air defense missile system equipment has arrived in Ankara. The purchase solidifies developing ties between Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's President Recep Erdogan, and is a further setback to U.S.-Turkish relations. [CNN]TRUMP SURRENDERS ON CENSUS President Donald Trump abandoned his administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Trump instead instructed other executive agencies to immediately provide all of their citizenship records to the Department of Commerce, which oversees the census. [HuffPost]STORM BARRY GAINS STRENGTH Officials have urged residents in Louisiana and Mississippi to prepare for a long weekend of potentially catastrophic weather as Tropical Storm Barry, the first major storm of the season, takes aim at low-lying regions in the South. [HuffPost]MORE THAN 10,000 WILD ANIMALS SEIZED More than 10,000 wild animals and their parts were seized over 26 days in Operation Thunderball, a massive anti-smuggling campaign coordinated by two of the world’s largest enforcement agencies, Interpol and the World Customs Organization. [HuffPost]AIRLINE APOLOGIZES TO DOCTOR FORCED TO COVER UP American Airlines has issued an apology to a Texas doctor who was ordered by a flight attendant to cover up her outfit. Dr. Latisha “Tisha” Rowe was wearing a romper, and said she had to wrap herself in a blanket before she was allowed to take a seat on the plane. [HuffPost]
 Become one of our first official super fans. Call yourself a founding member of HuffPost Plus forever.  12 MORE WOMEN ACCUSE EPSTEIN At least a dozen more women have reportedly come forward with accusations of sexual assault and sex trafficking since billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested last weekend. [HuffPost]TRUMP’S ‘WINRED’ PLATFORM COULD FUNNEL MILLIONS TO EX-STAFFER Trump and the Republican National Committee have chosen a fundraising system that profits a former White House staffer and a company invested in by Jared Kushner’s brother ― passing over a cheaper platform that already has contracts with thousands of GOP candidates and committees. [HuffPost]POLLUTED FLOOD WATERS ENDANGER SPECIES A historic slow-moving flood of polluted Mississippi River water loaded with chemicals, pesticides and human waste from 31 states and two Canadian provinces is draining straight into the marshes and bayous of the Gulf of Mexico, destroying the fragile ecosystem. [HuffPost]CHICAGO MAYOR BANS ICE FROM POLICE DATABASES Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said her city has permanently banned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from accessing the Chicago Police Department’s databases ahead of looming ICE raids to detain undocumented immigrants. [HuffPost]‘MOST WANTED’ CHINESE SPY INDICTED The FBI added 57-year-old software engineer Xudong Yao, who goes by “William,” to its wanted list for allegedly running off to China with the proprietary source code for an American locomotive control system. [Daily Beast]UK PARLIAMENT WORKERS FACE INTOLERABLE ABUSE A blistering report on Britain’s Parliament found that sexual harassment was considered a “necessary evil” for young, ambitious workers in the Houses of Parliament and that the atmosphere was “stressful and hostile.” [New York Times]
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