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The father of fashion designer Kate Spade died on the eve of her funeral, according to a statement released by her family shortly before her service began Thursday in her hometown of Kansas City. The family said 89-year-old Earl Brosnahan Jr. Source

In this Wednesday, June 20, 2018, photo provided on Thursday, June 21, 2018, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, and his wife Ri Sol Ju arrive at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, after returning from China. Source

Iraq's Supreme Court on Thursday endorsed a manual recount of all ballots from last month's national elections, but rejected the invalidation of ballots from abroad and from voters displaced by recent conflict. Authorities have been struggling to address allegations raised by underperforming parties that the May vote was marred by fraud. Source

A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday said a sniper serving life in prison without parole over deadly shootings that traumatized the Washington, D.C. area in 2002 must be re-sentenced in Virginia because he was only 17 at the time of his crimes. Source

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will make space available on military bases for as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children detained after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a spokesman said Thursday. The request for temporary shelter -- amid a growing political battle over detained migrants -- was made by the Department of Health and Human Services and accepted by the Defence Department, said the spokesman, Army Lt. Source

You've probably received a scam phone call in the past, but recently some people are getting calls in Mandarin. Groups who work with newcomers are warning about phone calls that appear to be trying to scam people and get your personal information. Source

Mayors across the U.S. have travelled to Texas to take a stand against the separation of children from their families and placing them in cages at the border. U.S. lawmakers reject hard-right immigration bill The Trump administration has set up at least three "tender age" shelters to detain babies and other young children who have been forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S. Source

Melania Trump boarded a flight to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents wearing a jacket bearing the words "I really don't care, do u?" The green hooded spring military jacket has the words written graffiti-style on the back. Source

TORONTO -- Controversial professor and author Jordan Peterson is suing an Ontario university and three of its staff for defamation over remarks allegedly made when a teaching assistant was disciplined for showing a video of him to her class. Source

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- U.S. President Donald Trump is throwing out a policy devised by his predecessor for protecting U.S. oceans and the Great Lakes, replacing it with a new approach that emphasizes use of the waters to promote economic growth. Source