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CHICAGO (AP) — Amy Klobuchar says she is dropping out of the running to be vice president and urging Democrat Joe Biden to select a woman of color instead.

The white Minnesota senator, who had seen her prospects fall as racial tensions swept the nation, said Thursday that she called the presumptive presidential nominee Wednesday night and made the suggestion. Biden had already committed to choosing a woman as his running mate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Bolton’s claim in an explosive new book that President Donald Trump urged China’s Xi Jinping to help him win reelection could undermine his campaign’s effort to portray Democratic rival Joe Biden as soft on Beijing.

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back, while the interim chief acknowledged members of the force feel abandoned amid protests demanding massive changes to policing.

(AP) --- The number of deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U.S. has fallen in recent weeks to the lowest level since late March, even as states increasingly reopen for business. But scientists are deeply afraid the trend may be about to reverse itself.

“For now, it’s too soon to be reassured that deaths are going down and everything’s OK,” said Dr. Cyrus Shahpar of Resolve to Save Lives, a nonprofit organization that works to prevent epidemics.

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld legal protections for young immigrants, but President Donald Trump could still take away the ability for hundreds of thousands of them to live and work legally in the United States. With no legislative answer in sight, that means the uncertainty of the last eight years isn’t over for many who know of nowhere else as home.

WASHINGTON, June 18. /TASS/: The US Navy’s amphibious assault ship Oak Hill has begun its transit into the Black Sea where it will join the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter, the press office of the US 6th Fleet reported on Thursday.

"The dock landing ship USS Oak Hill began its northbound transit into the Black Sea, June 18, to conduct maritime security operations and strengthen [US] relationships with region partners and allies. Oak Hill will join the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter, which entered the Black Sea on June 17," the 6th Fleet said in a statement.

GENEVA, June 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nearly 80 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to violence and persecution, meaning more than one percent of humanity is now living in displacement, the UN said.

A fresh report from the UN refugee agency found that by the end of last year, a record 79.5 million people were living either as refugees, asylum seekers or in internal displacement within their own countries.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Pres Donald Trump said that US police have “not been treated fairly” and appeared to defend a white officer charged with the murder of a black man.

HONOLULU, June 18 (NNN-XINHUA) – Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi held a dialogue with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the latter’s request on Tuesday and Wednesday local time in the US state of Hawaii.

Yang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, conducted in-depth exchanges with Pompeo on China-U.S. relations as well as global and regional issues of mutual concern.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump signed into law an act that authorises sanctions against Chinese officials over the mass incarceration of Uighur Muslims.