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Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann was publicly fact-checked after he mocked a Republican congresswoman for claiming that failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign previously destroyed government devices. "Hillary Clinton used a hammer to destroy evidence of a private e-mail server and classified information on that server and was never indicted. The same standard should apply to everyone, including Donald Trump," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. tweeted Sunday. The claim drew a sharp response from Olbermann, who suggested that the congresswoman was not in the proper mental state to understand reality.

War crimes were possibly committed during last month's fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, Amnesty International says. A report by the human rights group concludes that Israeli forces conducted apparently disproportionate air strikes which killed Palestinian civilians. It also says indiscriminate Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket fire killed both Israeli and Palestinian civilians. Amnesty is calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it operated in accordance with its obligations under international law and made efforts to minimize harm to civilians that were not required by law. A spokesman for PIJ said the group welcomed Amnesty's report. Thirty-four Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in the latest round of cross-border fighting, which erupted on 9 May and ended five days later with an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. It began when Israeli warplanes carried out overnight air strikes that killed three senior commanders of PIJ's military wing in their homes as well as 10 civilians, including relatives and neighbours of the men.

A federal judge will allow E. Jean Carroll to amend her original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to include comments he made at a CNN town hall. Carroll, a former magazine columnist, asked the judge for permission to amend the initial November 2019 lawsuit so she could try to seek additional punitive damages after Trump repeated statements a federal jury found to be defamatory.

The BBC was among the first media organisations to gain access to some of the first villages liberated in Ukraine's counteroffensive. Out of this cluster of four settlements in the eastern Donetsk region, Neskuchne has seen the heaviest fighting according to the battalion which liberated it. Ukraine lost six soldiers in the process. Its name means "not boring" in Ukrainian. An obvious irony for a village that was occupied by Russia in spring last year - a few weeks after President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It was at the most northern point of a protruding Russian front line. As our army escort, Anatoliy, speeds along scarred roads in his camouflaged truck towards Neskuchne, it's clear this is a different kind of liberation to what we saw last year. Firstly there are no civilians here. The only remnants of civilisation come in the form of a blown out pharmacy and food store. There isn't a complex network of trenches either. A makeshift wooden bridge over a river is all it takes to take us into territory Russia has held for so long.

Summary Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges alleging he retained classified documents after he left the White House It's alleged that US government secrets were stored in a shower, bathroom, ballroom and bedroom of his Mar-a-Lago estate After leaving the court, the former president stopped at a well-known Cuban cafe in Miami to greet supporters Trump will speak later today from his golf club in New Jersey Supporters of the former president have been protesting the indictment outside the Miami court Trump, who is campaigning to win back the White House, says the indictment is "election interference" Special Counsel Jack Smith, the lead investigator, says he wants a speedy trial and that Trump is innocent until proven guilty

NATO has launched what it’s calling its "largest deployment exercise" in history, aimed at sending a message to countries like Russia that it "is ready to defend every inch of Allied territory." The two-week long "Air Defender" exercise is set to run until June 23 and will involve 25 countries, 10,000 personnel and 250 aircraft, according to NATO. "Air Defender is necessary because we live in a more dangerous world," NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu said in a statement. "As we face the biggest security crisis in a generation, we stand united to keep our countries and our people safe." "Air Defender sends a clear message that NATO is ready to defend every inch of Allied territory," she added.

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Former President Donald Trump has responded to his federal indictment the way he has responded to various other crises – with a blizzard of dishonesty. In posts on his social media platform and in Saturday speeches in Georgia and North Carolina, Trump made numerous false or misleading claims about his handling of classified documents, the FBI’s conduct in the related investigation, the Presidential Records Act, his dealings with the federal government prior to the search of his Mar-a-Lago club and residence, and President Joe Biden’s own handling of documents. Here is a fact check of 10 of the indictment-related claims Trump has made since the 37 federal charges against him were unsealed on Friday.

Nine people have been injured in a mass shooting in Denver, Colorado. Three of the victims are in a critical condition, police said in a Twitter post, while the others have non life-threatening injuries. They added that a suspect was also shot and was in police custody. The shooting happened on Market Street, close to Ball Arena, where the city's basketball team, the Denver Nuggets, won their first NBA championship on Monday night. Police said they believe that "multiple shots were fired during an altercation involving several individuals" and said a "complex investigation" was taking place. Full story

Sir Paul McCartney says he has employed artificial intelligence to help create what he calls "the final Beatles record". He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the technology had been used to "extricate" John Lennon's voice from an old demo so he could complete the song. "We just finished it up and it'll be released this year," he explained. Sir Paul did not name the song, but it is likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called Now And Then. It had already been considered as a possible "reunion song" for the Beatles in 1995, as they were compiling their career-spanning Anthology series.

More people are set to be pardoned for historical crimes linked to homosexuality after changes in the rules come into force. From Tuesday, anyone convicted or cautioned for offences linked to same sex activity that have been abolished can apply for their records to be wiped. It will mean more veterans will be able to apply to erase convictions that were brought under service law. The plans were first announced last year and mean that those who were unjustly criminalised can be pardoned and their convictions deleted from official records. In the past, members of the Armed Forces were prosecuted for their sexuality under service law, which governed how service personnel were required to behave.

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