The Daily Populous

Saturday June 23rd, 2018 day edition

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Donald Trump has declared that North Korea still poses an “extraordinary threat” to the United States, just days after saying that the country’s nuclear program no longer constituted a danger.

In an executive order on Friday, the president extended for one year the so-called “national emergency” with respect to the nuclear-armed nation, re-authorizing economic restrictions against it.

While expected, the declaration comes just nine days after Trump tweeted: “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea,” following his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office.

There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.

North Korea has great potential for the future!.

No sign of North Korea dismantling nuclear weapons programme, Mattis admits Read more. »

New Jersey bans child marriages. New law raises minimum age to 18

Authored by nj.com

New Jersey is the second state behind Delaware to enact a law requiring youth to wait until they are 18 to get married.

The new law would require people to wait until age 18 to get a marriage license.

Fraidy Reiss, founder of Unchained At Last, called the new law "a huge victory for girls and women across New Jersey.". »

The death of the unarmed teen killed by an East Pittsburgh police officer is ruled a homicide

Authored by cnn.com

The officer -- who had just been sworn in on the East Pittsburgh police force a few hours before the shooting -- has been placed on administrative leave, police said.

Antwon and another passenger "bolted" from the vehicle, and the East Pittsburgh officer opened fire, striking Antwon, Allegheny County police said.

The East Pittsburgh officer fired three times, hitting Antwon three times in various parts of his body, McDonough said. »

Even in the Middle Ages, People Didn’t Think the Earth Was Flat

Authored by newsweek.com
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“With extraordinary few exceptions, no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat,” historian Jeffrey Burton Russell wrote in 1997.

By the first century A.D., “the sphericity of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans.”.

“The point is that no educated person believed” the Earth was flat, Russell notes. »

UK should cancel Donald Trump visit, says Jeremy Corbyn

Authored by theguardian.com

Theresa May has “ample reasons” to cancel Donald Trump’s visit to the UK next month, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeremy Corbyn on his visit to the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan on Friday.

We need to say very clearly to Donald Trump ‘We live in a multicultural society, we’re proud of it. »