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President Barack Obama vowed on Aug. 31 to push for police officer safety after a Texas sheriff's deputy was gunned down from behind and shot multiple times at close range.

Mia Khalifa was born in Beirut in 1993 and wore a hijab, but that’s not the last time she wore it as disgruntled Muslims will tell you. In 2000 she and her family moved to the United States, settling in Maryland. She earned her BA in history at the University of Texas at El Paso.

A man who engaged police in a standoff at a Texas home has been charged with capital murder after the bullet-riddled bodies of six children and two adults were found inside, officials said on August 9.

The FBI will participate in the investigation into the death of an unarmed black Texas college football player who was fatally shot by a white officer during a burglary call at a car dealership, a suburban Dallas police chief said on August 8. 

Christina Cortez, 38, is accused of producing child pornography at the Texas day care where she worked. The former day care worker distributed child pornography to a fugitive sex offender Matthew Harbin, aged 29. She was arrested after images of at least one child being sexually abused was found in her possession.

British singer Jane Birkin has asked luxury manufacturer Hermes to remove her name from its crocodile-skin handbag after learning of the "cruel" methods used to make the iconic accessory.
 

The Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government stands awkwardly by as accusations fly against former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis over recent press revelations concerning a ‘Plan B’ for the Greek economy that involved hacking tax office software to create a parallel payments system in the case of a Grexit.

Evidence from an autopsy on Sandra Bland, the black woman found hanging dead in a Texas jail days after a traffic stop, supports the medical examiner's initial ruling of suicide, a county prosecutor told reporters on July 23.

In his first major interviews since stepping down as Greece’s FinMin, Yanis Varoufakis reveals that he recommended the imposition of a parallel current and a ‘haircut’ of ECB bonds.

“We’re at war!” was the way right-wing Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, the leader of the junior coalition partner in league with Greece’s radical leftists, described the expulsion of a deputy from his party last week who said he’ll vote for “yes” in Sunday’s election.