A San Francisco-based web company announced Sunday it would no longer provide services to 8chan, a website notorious for hosting lawless message boards where manifestos have appeared before mass shootings.
The move came after a screed against immigrants was posted to 8chan shortly before a mass shooter killed 20 and wounded 26 at an El Paso Walmart and shopping center. Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, a firm that protects sites from cyber attacks, said he decided to drop 8chan because it “has repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate.”

Iran’s foreign minister said Monday that recent U.S. sanctions against him marked a “failure” for diplomacy and suggested that the measures were taken after he declined an invitation to meet President Trump at the White House.
Imposing financial restrictions on a foreign minister means “failure in negotiations, failure in diplomacy and an opposition to dialogue,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday at a news conference in Tehran, which was carried live by Iranian state television.

Former classmates say the suspected Dayton, Ohio mass shooting gunman kept a “hit list” during high school of fellow students he wanted to kill or injure.
Two former classmates told the news service that Betts was suspended from Bellbrook High School during his junior year following the discovery of a hit list that was found written on the wall of a school bathroom.
They are reportedly frustrated that police said there were no red flags in Betts’s background that would have prevented him from buying the .223-caliber rifle that was used in the shooting outside a crowded bar in a historic neighborhood of Dayton.
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A letter sent by National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer to party members identified three “left-wing radicals” that he says “bought control of Congress for the Democrats.”
The letter on Emmer’s letterhead says “the news of impactful, real progress on turning our nation around was undercut by biased media and hundreds of millions of dollars of anti-Republican propaganda put out by liberal special interests, funded by deep-pocketed far-left billionaires George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg.”
“These left-wing radicals essentially BOUGHT control of Congress for the Democrats,” the letter also said.
All three of the names mentioned are Jewish.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said video games could contribute to future mass shootings when asked about it in a television interview on Sunday morning.
Appearing on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, McCarthy was asked about how to understand factors contributing to a shooting.
“This may be a place where we could find this ahead of time,” said McCarthy who discussed ways to detect future shooters.

French inventor Franky Zapata has successfully crossed the Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard on his second attempt, after being knocked off balance during his first try last month. The 22-mile trip from Sangatte in northern France took Zapata 20 minutes.
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President Trump speaks to press as he departs Morristown on his way to the White House.
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A Brazilian gang leader tried to escape from prison by dressing up as his daughter when she visited him in jail and walking out the penitentiary’s main door in her place. He was stopped on his way out for looking suspicious.

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On Friday, former Google engineer Kevin Cernekee told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson that his former employer will try to prevent President Donald Trump’s reelection.
“Do you think that Google will attempt to influence the election outcome, attempt to prevent Trump from being reelected?” Carlson asked.
“I do believe so,” Cernekee replied. “I think that’s a major threat. They have openly stated that they think 2016 was a mistake. They thought Trump should have lost in 2016. They really want Trump to lose in 2020. That’s their agenda.”
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It’s getting extremely difficult to live in New York if you’re making less than six figures, according to a new analysis from Bloomberg. The impact is being felt by those who live alone and it’s taking place in areas that were previously seen as affordable.
Solo renters in popular Brooklyn neighborhoods like Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill now need to be making at least $100,000 per year to live there, a dramatic change from just five years ago. The lower east side of Manhattan has also followed suit.
People in Manhattan living alone would need a gross income of $115,800, which is more than twice the city median of $57,782. Renters in East Flatbush need to earn 33% more than they did in 2014 to live alone, with that figure coming in at $68,000.