| No Images? Click here  Friday, August 16TRUMP MIGHT WANT TO BUY GREENLAND President Trump is reportedly interested in buying Greenland, an ice-covered island melting before the world’s eyes. According to The Wall Street Journal, sources say the president has repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring the autonomous Danish territory situated between the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans. [HuffPost]ISRAEL BACKTRACKS, LIFTS TLAIB BAN Israel has decided to allow Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) to enter the country and visit with her family in the West Bank, Reuters reported Friday. On Thursday, Israeli officials said Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) were barred from entry over their support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. [HuffPost]A CLOSER LOOK AT OBAMA’S IMMIGRATION STATS Data obtained this month by HuffPost through a Freedom of Information Act request reveals the most serious crime committed by more than half of the migrants arrested at the border and tagged as criminal deportees during Obama’s second term was entering the country without authorization. [HuffPost]TRUMP ALL BUT ENDORSES LEWANDOWSKI President Donald Trump waded into the New Hampshire Senate GOP primary on Thursday and talked up his former aide Corey Lewandowski, who has expressed interest in taking on Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen next year. [HuffPost]FRENCH ‘SPIDER-MAN’ CLIMBS SKYSCRAPER, HOISTS FLAG French “spiderman” climber Alain Robert scaled a 68-story skyscraper in Hong Kong on Friday to hoist a flag symbolizing reconciliation between China and the territory as weeks of escalating pro-democracy protests show no signs of abating. [Reuters]EPA BACKS OFF CYANIDE BOMBS TO KILL WILDLIFE The Environmental Protection Agency has suddenly backed off its reauthorization of the controversial use of “cyanide bomb” toxic traps that the Department of Agriculture employs to kill wildlife for ranchers and farmers. [HuffPost]ANOTHER NEWSLETTER YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN As the United States and other nations grapple with the rise of far-right movements and white supremacy, HuffPost is relaunching the Fringe newsletter to keep you informed about the latest news on political extremism. Get it here.  NORTH KOREA FIRED MORE PROJECTILES South Korea’s military said Friday North Korea fired more projectiles into the sea to extend a recent streak of weapons tests believed to be aimed at pressuring Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear diplomacy. [AP]ISRAELI FLIGHT ATTENDANT DIES FROM MEASLES An Israeli flight attendant, identified as 43-year-old Rotem Amitai, who fell ill with the measles following a flight from New York died on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. She fell into a coma shortly after a March 26 El Al airlines flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Tel Aviv. [HuffPost]PENCE TO CELEBRATE HIS IRISH ROOTS, FOLKS NOT HAPPY Vice President Mike Pence faced calls to cancel his upcoming visit to Ireland after he confirmed the official trip on Twitter on Thursday. Some users declared Pence was “not welcome” in the country, from where his grandfather Richard Michael Cawley immigrated to the U.S. (via Ellis Island) in 1923. [HuffPost]INDIA PM DEFENDS KASHMIR AMID CLASH Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday used an Independence Day speech to defend his decision to strip Kashmir of its special status as about 7 million residents of the disputed region endured an unprecedented security lockdown and communications blackout for an 11th day. [AP]HONG KONG POLICE DESCRIBE THEIR SIDE OF PROTESTS "If they don't use violence, we don't use force." That is a senior Hong Kong police officer's response to accusations from outraged protesters that the authorities are using excessive force to quell demonstrations. Allegations of police brutality have fueled increasingly violent protests. [CNN]TENNESSEE EXECUTES STEPHEN WEST BY ELECTRIC CHAIR Tennessee executed its third inmate in the electric chair since November, killing a man Thursday who maintained that he didn’t stab a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986. [AP]
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