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A skylight is reflected in the rear window of a Waymo driverless car during a Google event Dec. 13, 2016, in San Francisco. Googles self-driving vehicle division says its bringing autonomous trucks to the Phoenix area. Waymo announced May 30 that its fully self-driving tractor-trailers will start driving on freeways this week and will expand to more routes over time.

Waymo bringing self-driving trucks to Phoenix-area freeways

Associated Press
June 1, 2019
State Rep. Larry Householder opposed a teen pride night at an Ohio library, calling the event a stunningly bizarre breach of the public trust.

Public pressure prompts Ohio library to cancel LGBTQ event

Newark Advocate
June 1, 2019
Louisiana Catholic school principal quits after DC strip club arrest

Louisiana Catholic school principal quits after DC strip club arrest

The Advocate
June 1, 2019
Riley Howell

North Carolina campus suspect may have recorded carnage

Associated Press
June 1, 2019
Joe Biden speaks at the Human Rights Campaign Dinner

Biden declares LGBTQ rights his No. 1 legislative priority

BILL BARROW, Associated Press
June 1, 2019
This Jan. 3, 2013, file photo shows Googles headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The U.S. Justice Department is readying an investigation of Google’s business practices and whether they violate competition standards, according to news reports. The search giant was fined a record $2.72 billion by European regulators in 2017 for abusing its dominance of the online search market. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission made an antitrust investigation of Google but closed it in 2013 without taking action.

Reports: Justice Dept. preparing antitrust probe of Google

Associated Press
June 1, 2019

‘El Chapo’ family gets US visas to visit drug lord

Associated Press
June 1, 2019
Bomb attack kills soldier in northwest Pakistan

Bomb attack kills soldier in northwest Pakistan

Associated Press
June 1, 2019
Police escort members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club

UK police arrest 34 for drugs at Hells Angels event

Associated Press
June 1, 2019
Pilot Tom Travis sits in the cockpit

WWII plane from D-Day to join in 75th anniversary

JAY REEVES, Associated Press
June 1, 2019
College students listen as El Paso Water worker Hector Sepulveda explains the desalination process May 2 at a plant in El Paso, Texas. The silver pipes push water through tightly packed membranes inside the white pipes, drawing minerals out of the brine. As the planet warms and weather patterns turn more extreme, droughts - as well as floods - in the state generally have worsened. El Paso, which has about 700,000 people living in a desert region that gets only 9 inches (23 centimeters) of rain annually, receives international groups wanting to learn more about innovative facilities like the largest inland desalination plant in the United States.

Texas struggles to keep pace as thirst for water intensifies

DAVID WARREN, Associated Press
June 1, 2019
This aerial photo shows Clemens Field in Hannibal, Missouri

In central US, levee breaches flood some communities

HANNAH GRABENSTEIN, Associated Press
June 1, 2019
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