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A man who fled the country 25 years ago while facing a prison sentence for attempted murder was arrested when he arrived at a New York City airport.

The Daily News reports Freddy Guerra was taken into custody at Kennedy Airport. He had been living in the Dominican Republic and working as a mechanic.

Authorities said Guerra was 18 when he and two friends shot the owner of Willie's Hardware and Building Supply Store in Queens on Sept. 16, 1992, stealing cash and spray paint cans. The owner, Lieb Zaban, survived being shot in the chin.

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Ireland.

 

Voters in deeply Roman Catholic Ireland by a 2-to-1 margin support to repeal a 1983 constitutional ban on abortions, the official vote tally shows.

Official results of Friday's referendum showed that among 2.1 million votes cast, 1.4 million were in favor of repealing the Eighth Amendment to Ireland’s Constitution that says a mother and unborn child have an “equal right to life.” About 723,000 voters wanted to retain the ban. 

  Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. "The people have said that we want a modern Constitution for a modern country, that we trust women and we respect them to make the right decision and the right choices about their health care." 

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Rolled Back...

The House voted to pass the biggest rollback of financial regulations since the global financial crisis. The margin was 258-159, with 33 Democrats supporting the legislation.  The Senate already passed the legislation with bipartisan support.

The bill makes good on Republican promises to cut red tape they say hurts businesses, but does not go nearly as far as some GOP lawmakers had hoped. It also appeases some Democrats who argue financial rules passed following the financial meltdown unnecessarily hamstrung small and mid-sized lenders.

The measure eases restrictions on all but the largest banks. It raises the threshold to $250 billion from $50 billion under which banks are deemed too important to the financial system to fail. Those institutions also would not have to undergo stress tests or submit so-called living wills, both safety valves designed to plan for financial disaster. 

Square...

The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. In 1910: When I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.^[1]

Roosevelt reflected three basic goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.^[2] These three demands are often referred to as the "three C's" of Roosevelt's Square Deal.

Thus, it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. A progressive Republican, Roosevelt believed in government action to mitigate social evils, and as president he in 1908 denounced "the representatives of predatory wealth” as guilty of “all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to unfair and unwholesome methods of crushing competition, and to defrauding the public by stock-jobbing and the manipulation of securities.

During his second term, Roosevelt tried to extend his Square Deal further, but was blocked by conservative Republicans in Congress.

I've been...

Michael Rotondo, [has no job ] the 30-year-old man ordered by a judge to leave his parents’ home in upstate New York, has tried to explain why he.

"I've been a father for the past few years, that's what I've been doing. I really haven't been pursuing a career." 

He had been "working here and there, doing things, but mostly being a father." That is despite the fact that he has lost visitation rights to meet with the child.

The judge’s decision came after Mark and Christina Rotondo sent their son several letters asking him to move out, get a job and take his broken-down Volkswagen with him. They offered him $1,100 in cash to help him find a place to stay.

I'm going no where.?!

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North Korea has threatened to pull out of the meeting after comments by US National Security Adviser John Bolton.

The country reacted furiously when Mr Bolton suggested it would follow a "Libya model" of denuclearization.

Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed with Western powers in 2003 to dismantle his program in return for the lifting of sanctions. Eight years later he was killed at the hands of Western-backed rebels.

North Korea is also angry at current US-South Korea military drills and has halted talks with the South in response.

What kind of Diplomacy of Peace killing...

Extortion...

There's been a big rise in the number of victims of sextortion being reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA)..

Sextortion is when people, mainly men in their teens and twenties, are talked into letting themselves be filmed carrying out sex acts. Victims are secretly recorded and then blackmailed by  international criminal gang, most likely based in the Philippines. 

Don't panic, don't pay and call the police. Tens of thousands of people, mainly young men, are putting themselves at risk of sextortion.

Ultimately we'd advise people not to get naked on webcam.