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Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Brooklyn nun is speaking out after she said a man threatened to kill her while she prayed inside her church as police search for the suspect.

Investigators say Sister Maria Amador’s prayers were interrupted and her life threatened Wednesday by a man inside the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights. —More…

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

Hardcore anti-capitalist protesters have been hit with water cannons and pepper spray by German riot police after they attacked officers with bottles and stones at the G20 summit in Hamburg.

Police say they repeatedly asked a group of demonstrators to remove their masks and hoods but instead officers were hit with bottles and bricks - breaking the window of a riot van.—More….

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

Muslim groups in Malaysia and Indonesia have called for a boycott of Starbucks because of the coffee chain’s support for LGBT rights.

Malaysian group Perkasa, which supports a hard-line form of Islam and nationalism, this week called on its more than 500,000 members to stay away from Starbucks coffee shops. This week and last, leaders of Indonesia’s second largest mainstream Muslim group, Muhammadiyah, with an estimated 29 million members, denounced the chain.—More…

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

Mayor John Tory says he’s “thrilled” with a letter from the federal infrastructure minister that shows Toronto will get billions for future public transit projects and the province will be forced to match one-third of the costs.

Based on funding formulas, the city is expecting to get nearly $5 billion to spend on the Downtown Relief Line (DRL), SmartTrack, the Eglinton East LRT and Waterfront transit. —More…

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

The number of homes sold last month in the Greater Toronto Area plunged a whopping 37.3 per cent compared to the same month a year ago, the city’s real estate board said Thursday, weeks after Ontario introduced measures aimed at cooling the housing market.

The Toronto Real Estate Board said 7,974 homes changed hands in June while the number of new properties on the market climbed 15.9 per cent year over year to 19,614.—More…

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

A mob stormed Venezuela’s opposition-dominated National Assembly on Wednesday with the apparent acquiescence of government troops and carried out a startling attack on lawmakers and journalists.

Bloodied lawmakers were treated for broken ribs and head injuries, and journalists said the attackers had stolen their equipment. The episode in Caracas, which coincided with Venezuela’s Independence Day, was a sharp escalation of lawlessness in a country roiled by a failing economy and daily street demonstrations.—More…

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

A University of Kansas professor recently asserted that those who believe in Donald Trump’s campaign slogan are “deeply invested in white supremacy” and the killing of minorities.

“The systemic violence that killed Charleena Lyles is the very foundation of the country,” Cr. Subini Annamma declared on Twitter last month, referring to the recent killing of Charleena Lyles by police officers in Seattle.—More..

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

The U.S. Geological Survey tweeted early Thursday that a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit western Montana at about 12:30 a.m. local time.

The quake’s epicenter was in Lincoln, which is just outside Missoula. Some Twitter users posted feeling tremors as far away as Spokane.—More…

Prelim M5.8 earthquake western Montana Jul-6 06:30 UTC, updates https://t.co/vYQVn9EGpU

— USGS Big Quakes (@USGSBigQuakes) July 6, 2017

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

Doctors at the hospital where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., has been recovering from a gunshot wound downgraded his condition from “fair” to “serious” Wednesday after he contracted an infection.

MedStar Washington Hospital Center said Scalise had been re-admitted to the intensive care unit. The hospital added that it would provide another update sometime Thursday.—More…

Jul 6, 2017 — News on the Net

The Chicago Police Department says it is conducting “a very comprehensive review” after the city experienced one of its most violent Fourth of July weekends in recent years, with at least 102 people shot between late Friday afternoon and early Wednesday.

“We’re doing a debriefing,” said chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. “The mood here is frustration.”—MORE…

Jul 5, 2017 — News on the Net

A Vatican hospital says it is ready and willing to care for British infant Charlie Gard if the courts allow him to go but British officials are refusing to allow the little boy to leave the country.

The Italian news outlet Zenit reports leaders of the Bambino Jesus pediatric hospital in Rome, Italy said they are willing to care for Charlie if the courts will allow him to be transferred to their hospital. But it looks like that will not happen.—More…

Jul 5, 2017 — News on the Net

As a leader in fake news, CNN is repeatedly caught selling stories based on dubious sources. But now CNN was even caught Tweeting out fake quotes it attributed to famous Americans such as Abe Lincoln and founding father Benjamin Franklin.

In what seems to be another effort to attack President Donald Trump, CNN latched onto a “quote” from 16th President Abraham Lincoln and took to Twitter to enlighten its followers about Lincoln’s sagacity.—More…

Jul 5, 2017 — News on the Net

The hardline administration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confiscated 50 properties from one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Syriac Orthodox Church, arguing that their ownership deeds had lapsed, Al-Monitor reports, citing church and Christian community leaders.

Among the “hundreds of thousands of square meters” in property seized by Muslim-majority Turkey are reportedly many ancient churches and monasteries.—More….

Jul 5, 2017 — News on the Net

NEW YORK)—A follow-up to Project Veritas’ American Pravda: CNN video again exposes Jimmy Carr, the Associate Producer for CNN’s New Day saying he doesn’t think he “said anything wrong.”

Carr was recently featured in Project Veritas’ American Pravda: CNN video series, stating that CNN thinks Trump is “f*cking crazy,” that Kellyanne Conway looks like she was “hit with a shovel,’ and that the American voters are “stupid as sh*t.”—More…