Hong Kong police draw guns in latest protest violence

Police in Hong Kong drew their guns Sunday night after a small group of protesters attacked officers with sticks and rods, and used tear gas to clear pro-democracy demonstrators who had taken over a street.

Countries agree to protect sharks and rays

Countries have agreed to protect more than a dozen shark species at risk of extinction, in a move aimed at conserving some of the ocean’s most awe-inspiring creatures who have themselves become prey to commercial fishing and the Chinese appetite for shark fin soup.

Powerful, obscure law is basis for Trump ‘order’ on trade

President Donald Trump is threatening to use the emergency authority granted by a powerful but obscure federal law to make good on his tweeted “order” to U.S. businesses to cut ties in China amid a spiraling trade war between the two nations.

North Korea tests new ‘super-large’ rocket launcher

North Korea said Sunday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a “newly developedsuper-large multiple rocket launcher,” another demonstration of the North’s expanding weapons arsenal apparently aimedat increasing its leverage ahead of a possible resumption of nuclear talks with the U.S.

Ex-Rep. Joe Walsh to challenge Trump in 2020 GOP primary

Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman and tea party favorite turned radio talk show host, announced along shot challenge Sunday to President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, saying the incumbent is “completely unfit” for office and must be denied a second term.

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