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Saturday, 5 October 2019

Anti-Muslim Group, ACT for America, to Host Gala at Mar-a-Lago

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Romney rips Trump: 'Wrong and appalling' to ask China and Ukraine to investigate Biden

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney issued a stern rebuke of the president's call for foreign governments to investigate Joe Biden.

Giuliani plays down role in proposed Ukraine statement on corruption

Kurt Volker, Trump's former envoy to Ukraine, told lawmakers on Thursday that Giuliani had said the statement should include a reference to a gas company on which the son of Trump's political rival, Joe Biden, had served as a board member. Giuliani said Volker and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, came to him about the proposed statement on corruption and asked for his advice on what should be in it.

Dallas ex-cop's conviction: Was justice served?

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of her neighbor Botham Jean. Guyger said she had accidently entered Jean's apartment thinking it was her own and shot him because she believed he was an intruder.

The Latest: Iraq Parliament speaker says he supports demands

An influential Iraqi Shiite cleric has called on the government to resign and early elections be held to bring the country out of a crisis that has left more than 50 dead in four days. Earlier in the day, al-Sadr's Sairoon political bloc in parliament that came in first in last year's national elections said it was suspending participation in parliamentary activities until the government introduces a program that serves Iraqi aspirations. Since the spontaneous rallies began Tuesday, security forces have fired live rounds and tear gas every day to disperse them in multiple provinces.