Georgia, Republican Party, Otto Warmbier: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing – New York Times
The Trump administration has not said whether the government will continue paying subsidies to keep costs down for people with Obamacare. If it doesnt, middle-income people could see their rates jump.
Lonnie Carpenter, above, a self-employed roofer, said it would have been tough to survive without his insurance after a back injury.
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3. Days after Officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of all charges in the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, a black motorist in Minnesota, a video of the shooting was released by state investigators.
Millions of people had seen the aftermath of the shooting because Mr. Castiles girlfriend had livestreamed it on Facebook.
The new video, shot from the dashcam of the police car, shows how a mundane conversation about a broken taillight devolved within seconds into gunfire. But it also leaves some questions unanswered.
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4. The death of Otto Warmbier, the American student who was returned from North Korea in a coma, above, drove a new wedge between Washington and Pyongyang.
Three other Americans are still imprisoned in North Korea. President Trump condemned the North for its brutality, but he and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stopped short of announcing fresh sanctions.
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5. The bodies of seven American sailors were flown home as the U.S. and Japanese authorities ramped up their investigations in the fatal collision of a cargo vessel and the U.S.S. Fitzgerald off the coast of Japan.
The biographies of the sailors who died in Saturdays collision, above, illustrate how much the American military relies on recruits from immigrant communities.
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6. Federal agents are using surveillance equipment adapted from military use in Iraq and Afghanistan to patrol the Mexican border. Experts say technology can create a virtual wall thats as effective as a physical one, at far lower cost.
And within Mexico, human rights lawyers, journalists and activists have been targeted by spyware that an Israeli company sold to the government for use against criminals and extremists.
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7. Our videographer embedded with Iraqi troops on the front lines of the war against the Islamic State in Mosul.
Iraqs second-largest city had been controlled by the militants for two years. The soldiers we followed were greeted as liberators by residents. One family even named a newborn after the units 33-year-old commander, Major Sajjad al-Hour, above.
Ben Solomon, who shot the video, describes the experience in this essay.
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8. In Portugal, more than 60 people were killed in a raging wildfire this week. Our correspondent drove into the countryside to interview survivors and firefighters, passing burned-out cars and melted road signs on his way.
Deadly blazes have become increasingly severe and routine in Portugal, spurred by poor land management and hotter, drier summers because of climate change.
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9. Theres an opera renaissance underway in Paris.
The Opra Comique, one of the citys oldest performance sites, is hoping to attract new audiences by reimagining what modern opera could be.
Its latest production, the Baroque opera Alcyone, hasnt been performed in Paris in 246 years and the new version includes avant-garde staging, and even acrobats.
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10. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, summer begins at 12:24 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday.
Thats the summer solstice, when the hemisphere will dip toward the sun, basking in its warmth for longer than any other day.
It offers the perfect opportunity to ponder the explosive ball of plasma that makes our very existence possible. Above, last years solstice in Santa Monica, Calif.
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11. Finally, Beyonc and Jay-Z havent confirmed the news, but that didnt stop the late-night hosts from congratulating them on the birth of their twins.
For the first time in history, people actually want to see pictures of kids on Facebook, Trevor Noah joked on The Daily Show. Above, the singer at the Grammy Awards in February.
Have a great night.
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