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Conservative media commentator Ben Shapiro was just a few minutes into a lecture at the University of Wisconsin Madison last fall when more than a dozen student protesters rose from the audience and began chanting "shame!" and "safety!" in hopes of drowning him out. Source

LONDON -- Boys at a British high school have found a novel way around strict uniform rules banning shorts, as the country swelters through a heatwave. The schoolboys at Isca Academy in the southwestern city of Exeter donned skirts instead of the officially mandated grey slacks. Source

At least seven people are dead and a dozen wounded after a suicide car bomb blast at a police station in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu, police and an ambulance service said Thursday. The bomber was trying to drive into the Waberi district's police station gate but detonated against the wall instead, Capt. Source

MINNEAPOLIS -- In the moments after a Minnesota police officer fatally shot Philando Castile, his handcuffed girlfriend began screaming in the back of a patrol car as her 4-year-old daughter begged her to stop. Squad car video from the July 2016 shooting shows Diamond Reynolds and her daughter in the cruiser, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday. Source

Samra Zafar was just 16 years old when her mother told her she would be marrying a 28-year-old man in Canada. Against her wishes, Zafar left her Pakistani family’s home in the United Arab Emirates and started a new life with her husband in Mississauga, Ont. Source

OTTAWA — The Senate ethics committee says an investigation into workplace harassment and bullying allegations against Don Meredith should continue. The fact that Meredith is no longer a senator would usually put an end to such an inquiry, but the committee wants the Senate ethics watchdog to press ahead with the probe that began nearly two years ago. Source

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans released their long-awaited bill Thursday to dismantle much of Barack Obama's health care law, proposing to cut Medicaid for low-income Americans and erase tax boosts that Obama imposed on high-earners and medical companies to finance his expansion of coverage. Source

PARIS — The man killed when he drove his car packed with arms and explosives into a police convoy had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group and asked his family to remember him not as a suicide bomber but as a martyr, France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor said Thursday. Source

"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver knew he was inviting a legal battle when he used his show Sunday to lambaste one of the country's largest coal mining companies and mock its chief executive. But it had to be done, he said. Source

BARNESVILLE, Pa. — A criminal complaint says an attorney found dead in the home of his estranged wife, the treasurer of a Pennsylvania county, was fatally beaten by his son with a bat on Father’s Day. State police say in the complaint filed Wednesday that 37-year-old Matthew Marchalk had repeatedly threatened 60-year-old Gary Marchalk in recent months. Source