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A kind samaritan made the closure of Toys 'R' Us a little easier for the children of North Carolina who don't wanna grow up.  The future youth of America will never know the overwhelming feeling of joy while running through the aisles of the giant toy chain. After filing for bankruptcy in September, more than 700 Toys 'R' Us stores will be closing for good on Friday. SEE ALSO: Please enjoy this wonderful dog frolicking through a homemade ball pit An anonymous person purchased $1 million worth of toys from a Toys 'R' Us in Raleigh, North Carolina, local outlet CBS 17 reports. The toys will reportedly be donated to local children, according to employees who work at the store.  Instead of opening the store one last time on Friday, employees spent the day packing up boxes and putting them on a truck for the generous person.  Customers looking to get some last minute deals were greeted with locked doors, though some didn't seem to mind upon hearing the news. 

• A gunman opened fire in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2lIMgeu

The short list contains all appeals court judges, including Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, Brett Kavanaugh of Maryland, and Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tADXpl

Just six weeks ago, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was still campaigning in from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IxCaWx

Law enforcement sources told the Capital Gazette that police had identified the suspect as Jarrod Warren Ramos, a resident of Laurel, Maryland, who sued the newspaper and one of its journalists in 2012, alleging defamation. Almost a year earlier, Thomas Hartley, a former columnist for The Capital, the group's flagship paper, wrote a column describing the suspect's interactions with an unnamed woman Ramos contacted over Facebook, court documents showed. Hartley said Ramos had sent her numerous emails in which he called her vulgar names and told her to kill herself. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yZrGQa

The seven nations under the Trump administration's travel ban — upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court — include five majority Muslim countries, prompting dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to assert that the entry restrictions were motivated by "animus toward the Muslim faith." The administration cites security concerns. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Kekq8x

President Xi Jinping told James Mattis, the US Defence Secretary, he wouldn’t give up any territory that China considered its own, an unusually blunt warning as security disputes simmer below a fight over trade. Xi made his remarks while meeting Mr Mattis on Wednesday in Beijing, the first such visit by a US defence chief in more than four years. The comments appeared to be a reference to US complaints about Chinese military deployments in the disputed South China Sea and a push by American lawmakers to expand ties with the democratically run island of Taiwan, which Beijing considers a province. “Our stance is steadfast and clear-cut when it comes to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Xi said, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. “We cannot lose one inch of territory passed down by our ancestors. Meanwhile, we want nothing from others.” The meeting illustrates how disputes between the world’s two largest economies extend beyond US President Donald Trump’s plans to

At least five are dead and several are injured after a shooter opened fire inside an office complex in Annapolis, Maryland, that houses the Capital Gazette newspaper. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tTFZ3k

A barrage of Russian air strikes on rebel-held areas of southern Syria killed 22 civilians on Thursday, a monitoring group said, most of them in a single battered town. "At least 35 Russian air strikes hit the town of Al-Mseifra," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "One of them hit a basement where people were taking shelter, killing 17 civilians, including five children," the Britain-based monitor said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ky2vJq

Los Angeles Dodgers utility player Enrique Hernandez on Friday said money he raised to help Puerto Rico recover from last year's deadly Hurricane Maria will be spent in the coming weeks to build more than 100 homes, but more aid is needed. Hernandez and his fiance raised more than $120,000 for aid group Habitat for Humanity in the aftermath of the storm and the Dodgers and team owner Mark Walter donated an additional $2 million in March. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KzrkRV

Some Democratic senators and their allies are starting to make the argument from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Kgamvv

Mass shootings have become alarmingly common in American life, from the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas to the tragedy on Thursday at the Capital Gazette newspaper. The motivation for this most recent attack is still unclear, authorities say. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tDFTgK

In one remarkably tense exchange, Rosenstein sparred with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who accused the deputy attorney general of “hiding” information from Congress. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IAGzZ1

Police have identified the five people killed Thursday when a gunman opened from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tGNuLn

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss Russian meddling in US elections when they meet again this summer, Mike Pence has said. On Wednesday, Moscow and Washington struck a deal to hold a summit between the two leaders in a mutually convenient third country. The US vice president told Bloomberg Mr Trump and his Russian counterpart would also discuss Moscow's involvement in the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MAKOWV

KINGSLAND, Ga. (AP) — The Latest on a white Georgia police officer accused of shooting a black man who was running away from him (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tF4TUZ

The police chief investigating Thursday's deadly shooting at the Capital from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tP2q9O

Staff members at the newspaper described what they witnessed when a gunman opened fire at their offices on Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tMmysT

Timothy Altomare, chief of Anne Arundel county police, said Jarrod Ramos was looked into over “online threatening comments” directed at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, but the newspaper management decided not to pursue criminal charges. “There was a fear that doing so would exacerbate an already flammable situation,” Altomare said at a press conference. Ramos, 38, appeared by video at a county district court accused of murdering five people at the newspaper as part of a years-long feud that began when it reported on his harassment of a woman. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ICcgBd

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Donald Trump was fooled by a comedian into taking a prank call while on board Air Force One. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2KjgnYt

Fox News Breaking News Alert Supreme Court Justice nominee coming July 9, Trump says 06/29/18 5:41 PM

Fox News Breaking News Alert Capital Gazette shooting suspect blocked staffers from escaping rampage: official 06/29/18 12:05 PM

Fox News Breaking News Alert New mugshot released of alleged Capital Gazette gunman 06/29/18 8:05 AM

Fox News Breaking News Alert Suspect in Capital Gazette killings charged with 5 counts of first-degree murder 06/29/18 6:04 AM

The suspect in the shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland on from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yWtKbQ

Trump’s opponents see little likelihood of blocking the president’s eventual nominee. But liberal groups are huddling to draw up battle plans anyway. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2lI2XGT

The short list contains all appeals court judges, including Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, Brett Kavanaugh of Maryland, and Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tADXpl

Protesters shut down a portion of the Tri-Boro Expressway outside Pittsburgh from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KvYlhS

Revellers poured buckets of wine over each other in northern Spain on Friday in an annual wine battle in the country’s Rioja producing-region. La Batalla de Vino is held each June in the town of Haro on the feast of St Peter, an event organizers say draws thousands of people. On Friday, participants soaked each other with buckets and toy spray guns, turning their clothes a shade of purple. (AP) from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tFMx6l

The Customs and Border Patrol agency (CPD) said that it was the only drink he had and carried no food. Mrs Trump was shown pictures of the boy during a visit to a CPD facility in Tucson, Arizona. In a call to CPD, a spokesperson for the border patrol confirmed to The Independent that the child was no longer in their custody, but would not release where he had been transferred, citing personal protection. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IC4TK2

After a violent attack left a man unconscious in the middle of a Bronx crosswalk, people started stealing from the victim's pockets, police said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MxiBQA

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein deflected heated attacks from from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2lEJsid

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death has died after surgery in New Jersey, her mother said Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NaiiMP

A Palestinian teenager died on Thursday after being hit by Israeli tank fire on the Gaza border, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said. Abdel Fattah Abu Azoum, 17, was hit in the head earlier on Thursday near Rafah in southern Gaza, the ministry said. The Israeli army said he and a companion were seeking to breach the border. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tDpGIp

The commander in chief reiterated via Twitter Moscow’s denial that it interfered in the 2016 presidential election — despite the conclusions of top U.S. intelligence agencies that it did. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NbGoXI

Dodge also reshuffles the lineup and adds some performance. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tEmVGD

Early this morning the seventh full moon of the year – dubbed the Strawberry Moon – lit our skies, peaking at 05:53. The first blue moon of the year was a spectacular sight, dubbed the 'super blue blood moon'. Falling on January 31, it was the product of three different phenomena: it was a supermoon, a blue moon and a blood moon. While many said it was the first to be seen in 152 years, other contested the fact, leading to a division among scientists. Stargazers were also treated to two full moons in March: as well as the first full moon on the night of March 1, we saw another full moon on March 31. As it was the second full moon of the month, it was a blue moon – the second of 2018. July will see will see the longest total eclipse of the 21st century, expected to last one hour 43 minutes – just four minutes shy of the longest amount of time an eclipse can last for. The lunar eclipse, which will occur on July 27, will also be a full moon, a micro moon (meaning it is the smalles

Robyn Rodgers, of New York, took to Instagram to discuss the incident. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KzcHOg

Since 1970, more than 90 perfect of all U.S. dairy farms have closed due to low milk prices and industry restructuring. Recently, a corporate decision by Walmart led to the shutdown of a three-generation family-run dairy farm in Kentucky. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yVwy9j

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old Democratic socialist who from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IBNSiU

Bruce Turkel, a Miami advertising executive who had been a frequent guest on from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KfMNDc

"There’s every reason to believe that Roe v. Wade is on the chopping block" from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2lG7Q36

Republicans are planning to hold a confirmation vote before the midterm elections, refusing Democrats’ demands for a delay. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tS0wFh

White supremacist groups are increasingly targeting college campuses to distribute propaganda, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In the past academic year, 292 incidents were reported of stickers, banners, and other physical materials that featured racist and anti-Semitic messages that targeted non-whites, Muslims and LGBTQ people being placed on college campuses across the United States. White supremacists have increasingly targeted US college campuses since January 2016 the ADL says, but saw a spike following the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KklQhS

Seven of the eight suspects arrested in the brutal murder of a 15-year-old boy in the Bronx made their first court appearances Wednesday, as thousands of mourners gathered to bid a final farewell to the boy affectionately known as Junior. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2N8gLXv

Ann Brenoff's "On The Fly" is a column about navigating growing older ― and a from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NbiNWN

The Jackson family patriarch died of cancer Wednesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2N8t6Lg

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s migration agency snubbed the Trump administration's candidate to lead it on Friday, a major blow to U.S. leadership of a body addressing one of the world's most pressing issues — and only the second time that it won't be run by an American since 1951. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IEOkwZ

The man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper was investigated five years ago for a barrage of menacing tweets against staff members, but a detective concluded he was no threat, and the paper didn't want to press charges for fear of inflaming the situation, according to a police report released Friday. The newspaper was afraid of "putting a stick in a beehive." The 2013 police report added to the picture emerging of Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, as the former information-technology employee with a longtime grudge against The Capital of Annapolis was charged with five counts of first-degree murder in one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in US history. Authorities said Ramos barricaded the rear exit of the office to prevent anyone from escaping and methodically blasted his way through the newsroom Thursday with a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, gunning down one victim trying to slip out the back. Three editors, a reporter and a sales assistant were killed. &quo

President Donald Trump's trip to Wisconsin on Thursday should be a highlight from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tMWKgk

The art exhibit “Total Tolerance,” featuring 2018 YoungArts winners in design, photography, visual arts and writing, recently opened at the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The first YoungArts exhibit at ED, it features a collection of work from 21 student artists and celebrates religious, cultural, gender and racial diversity. The works reflect the artists’ personal views on inequality and social justice and, in some cases, are directly rooted in their lived experiences. from ED News https://ift.tt/2IAZWkt

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