At least 11 people were killed when a duck boat carrying tourists capsized and sank during a thunderstorm with high winds on a lake in the Missouri Ozarks. Some of the dead were children, said Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader. Five people remained missing overnight. At least seven survivors were taken to hospitals, three of them under age 18. Video shot from a larger vessel that was nearby showed two of the amphibious duck boats being tossed as waves on Table Rock Lake grew. The other one made it to shore safely. Several other strong storms spawned a flurry of tornadoes in central Iowa, flattening buildings in several cities and leaving 17 people injured.
Source: The Kansas City Star, CBS News The Senate on Wednesday voted to keep President Trump's authority in check when it comes to imposing "national security" tariffs. The overwhelming 88-11 vote for the non-binding resolution symbolically condemns Trump's liberal use of the Trade Expansion Act, which has allowed him to inch the U.S. toward a trade war, most recently with Tuesday's tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods. The president also imposed a 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of items last week, which some lawmakers believe should have required congressional approval. Wednesday's Senate resolution, introduced by Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), was a compromise between senators who want to roll back Trump's abilities with a binding measure, and senators who are wary of upsetting the president.
Source: CNBC, The Daily Beast Dawn Sturgess, the 44-year-old English woman exposed to the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, died on Sunday, British authorities said. Charlie Rowley, who also was exposed, remained critically ill. Tests have confirmed that Sturgess and Rowley came into contact with the nerve agent by holding a contaminated item in their hands near the town of Salisbury, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with the same nerve agent. They recovered. Britain blamed Russia for the Skripal case. British Prime Minister Theresa May said she was "appalled and shocked" by Sturgess' death.
Source: BBC News The Klamathon Fire "exploded" to cover 22,000 acres Saturday, more than doubling in size and crossing the state line into Oregon. The blaze has already killed one person and destroyed 15 buildings. It is just 20 percent contained as of Sunday, and authorities said the Klamathon is exhibiting "extreme fire behavior with movement in multiple directions." Additional fires are raging in elsewhere in California, particularly in the hot and windy southern region of the state. Thousands of people have been evacuated as temperatures climb well over 100 degrees.
Source: KOIN 6, The Sacramento Bee British authorities confirmed Wednesday that a 44-year-old woman and 45-year-old man hospitalized in southern England after being found sick on Saturday had been exposed to the same Soviet-era nerve agent that sickened former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March. The Skripals were found in Salisbury, just a few miles from Amesbury, where the latest victims were exposed. The couple, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, had made a round-trip from Amesbury to Salisbury on Friday, although they didn't visit any sites connected to the Skripal case. "I don't have any intelligence or evidence that they were targeted in any way," said Neil Basu, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer. "There is nothing in their background to suggest that at all."
Source: Reuters, CNN Nine people were stabbed Saturday night at a Boise, Idaho, apartment complex home to many refugee families. A suspect, age 30, has been arrested, but so far neither his name nor his motive for the attack have been released. The victims have been hospitalized. "At this point we haven't lost anybody, but as I said the injuries are very serious," said Boise police chief William Bones. "This incident is not a representation of our community but a single evil individual who attacked people without provocation that we are aware of at this time."
Source: CNN, Fox News Joe Jackson, the patriarch of one of the most influential families ever in pop music, died early Wednesday after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 89. Jackson managed the early career of his most famous son, Michael Jackson, and Michael's brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, and Tito, as part of the Jackson 5. He also managed Janet Jackson and her sisters Rebbie and La Toya separately. Joe Jackson was known for his stern and sometimes abusive handling of his children. In 2002, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named him Best Entertainment Manager of All Time. "Joe was a strong man who acknowledged his own imperfections and heroically delivered his sons and daughters from the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, to worldwide pop superstardom," the Michael Jackson estate said in a statement. "Mr. Jackson's contributions to the history of music are enormous."
Source: TMZ, Vulture Former Air Force linguist Reality L. Winner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a felony charge of leaking classified information. Winner was arrested last June on allegations that she gave members of the news media a classified report about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. Winner, the first person prosecuted by the Trump administration for leaking government secrets, accepted a deal with prosecutors calling for a 63-month prison sentence. A prosecutor said last year that Winner was trying to make facts public after being angered by information reported in the media. "All of my actions I did willfully, meaning I did so of my own free will," Ms. Winner told Chief Judge J. Randal Hall on Tuesday.
Source: The New York Times Police in Long Beach, California, on Monday arrested a 77-year-old man, Thomas Kim, for allegedly starting a fire at a Southern California retirement home so he could shoot at firefighters when they arrived to put it out. A fire captain, Dave Rosa, was shot and killed. A resident of the retirement home was shot and hospitalized in critical condition. Another firefighter, Ernesto Torres, was treated at a hospital and released. Kim was arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, and arson. Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna said two explosive devices were found inside Kim's apartment. Police also recovered a revolver. Kim is being held on $2 million bail.
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