A Russian group that monitors police arrests says nearly 1,400 people were detained in a police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, the largest number of detentions at a protest in the Russian capital this decade.
Russian police violently dispersed thousands of people who thronged Moscow streets on Saturday to protest election authorities for disqualifying independent candidates from the Sept. 8 election for the Moscow city council.
Several protesters reported broken limbs and head injuries. Police justified their response by saying the rally was not sanctioned by authorities.
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A record 61,000 unaccompanied migrant children have surged over the U.S.-Mexico border and been handed to federal care facilities since October, and there are still over two months left in the fiscal year, according to immigration officials.
The number tops the total for fiscal year 2016, at 59,170 turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Jonathan H. Hayes, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement at DHS, said that the agency on one day held a high of 13,700, and it is down to 11,000. “The number of UAC entering the United States during this fiscal year has risen to levels we have never before seen,” he said, adding that @=$230 million were spent to sustain the facilities.

A community festival was coming to a close when gunfire erupted in a Brooklyn neighborhood, leaving one man dead, another person in critical condition and 10 others wounded, authorities said Sunday as they searched for two shooters they believe were involved.
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Jerusalem – An Artificial Intelligence-driven drone developed by an Israeli start-up is replacing workers with dangerous jobs such as high-altitude inspections, entering areas with fires, and encountering suspects at close range, thus saving their lives. Developed by Percepto, the drone operates autonomously based on scheduled missions and does not require human intervention for deployment. Powered [...]

LGBT activists say uptick in attacks linked to increased inflammatory rhetoric against gay community

Union of Right-Wing Parties leader says he will let New Right chief head the joint slate, clearing key obstacle to unity deal; fringe far-right parties merge

President Donald Trump said he and new U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson have already begun working on a free trade deal, which will be much bigger than would have been possible under EU membership.
The comments came after Trump called Johnson to congratulate him on his new job.
“We’re working already on a trade agreement,” Trump told reporters. “And I think it’ll be a very substantial trade agreement, you know we can do with the U.K., we can do three to four times, we were actually impeded by their relationship with the European Union. We were very much impeded on trade. And I think we can do three to four or five times what we’re doing.”
Trump described Johnson as a “good guy, a good friend of mine,” adding that “he will be a good prime minister.”

A CNN photo editor who resigned on Thursday following the resurfacing of a series of anti-Semitic tweets he posted in 2011, apologized on Friday for his hateful comments.
“Yesterday, tweets that I made in 2011 resurfaced in which I made offensive and hateful comments,” wrote the editor, Mohammed Elshamy, in a post on Twitter.
“I want to unequivocally express my apology to everyone, especially those in the Jewish community, who were offended by the tweets. I also want to apologize to my family, friends, and mentors who I am ashamed to have let down in this way.”