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Trial begins for man alleging Roundup weed killer caused his cancer

iStock/Thinkstoclk(BENICIA, Calif.) -- A California man is the first of hundreds of plaintiffs to see his day in court with Monsanto in a lawsuit alleging that its weed killing product Roundup gave him cancer.Jury selection began Monday in California Superior Court in DeWayne Johnson’s suit against the agrochemical giant. Johnson worked for a school district and regularly applied Roundup on campuses dozens of times a year. He was diagnosed with […]

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Photographer details the emotional moment that created viral border photo of crying toddler

John Moore/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dozens of harrowing images have rippled across the country from the southern border in recent weeks, but one that has caught the attention of many shows a crying 2-year-old girl who looked on as her mother was searched by U.S. Border Patrol agents."These folks, they didn't know what was about to happen" with the policy leading to the separation of families, photographer John Moore told […]

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Audio recording emerges of ‘orchestra’ of crying children in migrant detention center

U.S. Customs and Border Protection(NEW YORK) -- Young migrant children, fighting through tears, can be heard crying "Mami" and "Papa" in an eight-minute audio clip first obtained by ProPublica.The children are believed to be between 4 and 10 years of age, and they're crying because their parents have been detained elsewhere after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an activist who provided the recording."Well, we have an orchestra here -- […]

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Entertainment

“Incredibles 2” tops the weekend box office with record-breaking $180 million debut

Disney(LOS ANGELES) -- Disney/Pixar's Incredibles 2 topped the weekend box office with an estimated $180 million debut, beating the previous record for an animated film set by 2016's Finding Dory. The sequel to 2004's The Incredibles -- which features the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson and Sophia Bush -- delivered the second biggest June opening, behind Universal's Jurassic World, as well as the eighth largest opening of all time. Disney now owns nine of the top 10 titles in that category. […]

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Train derailment causes explosion, prompts evacuations

iStock/Thinkstock(PRINCETON, Ind.) -- A freight train derailment in Indiana on Sunday caused a loud explosion and calls for mandatory evacuations in the area.The Gibson County Sheriff’s Office and emergency service personnel issued a mandatory resident evacuation within a one mile radius in Princeton, Indiana, on Sunday evening following the train derailment and explosion.According to the Gibson County Sheriff, at approximately 7:19 p.m. local time Gibson County Central Dispatch received numerous […]

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Roller coaster passenger who survived 34-foot fall was ‘praying it was over’

ABC News (DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.) -- Amanda Bostic remembers the harrowing moments when she was tossed more than 30 feet from a roller coaster that had just derailed."I remember falling through the air and I remember hitting the ground," she said during an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America."The 34-year-old mother of two sons said she was "knocked out" from the fall. But when she she woke up, she heard […]

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Armed bystander shoots, kills suspected carjacker in Washington state

KOMO(TUMWATER, Wash.) -- A bystander in Washington fatally shot a carjacking suspect on Sunday after the carjacker allegedly shot a man who refused to give up control of his vehicle, according to police.Police said they received several calls on Sunday reporting a man who allegedly opened fire inside a Walmart in Tumwater, Washington, and attempted to carjack a vehicle in the parking lot there, according to Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO.Police […]

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Record flooding in the Midwest as East Coast continues to heat up

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A stationary front produced torrential rainfall in the Great Lakes and Midwest over the weekend with up to 7 inches of rain falling Sunday in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.Flood and flash flood watches continue from Wisconsin to Montana Monday with more rainfall to come.The heaviest rainfall over the next few days will be from southern Wisconsin to Montana, where, in some areas, an additional 2 to […]

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Wisconsin sisters arrested after stabbing each other, police say

Google Maps(MADISON, Wis.) --Police arrested two sisters in Wisconsin on Sunday after they allegedly stabbed each other while fighting in front of five young children.Authorities arrived to their home in Madison, Wisconsin, about 80 miles west of Milwaukee, at around noon after one of the siblings called to report that she’d been injured, city officials said.The sisters, ages 23 and 24, sustained stab wounds to the arm and were “uncooperative” […]

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