7 USS FITZGERALD SAILORS MEMORIALIZED U.S. Navy sailors fold seven U.S. flags during a memorial ceremony at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, on Tuesday. Seven sailors were killed June 17 when the USS Fitzgerald and a Philippine-flagged container ship col
DOZENS HURT AS NEW YORK CIT Y SUBWAY DERAILS
A New York City subway train derailed in Harlem on Tuesday morning, injuring 34 people who are being treated for non-lifethreatening injuries. Neighboring trains came to a standstill and hundreds of passengers exited along the subway lines.
“All trains traveling north and south were then stopped, so approximately 800 people on those trains now (found) themselves stopped in the tunnel below ground,” said Fire Department of New York commissioner Daniel Nigro.
SYRIA REJECTS ALLEGATION OF CHEMICAL ATTACK
A Syrian government official on Tuesday rejected the White House’s assertion that “potential” evidence showed that the regime of President Bashar Assad was preparing for a chemical weapons attack.
The denial came after White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S. had “identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children.”
Spicer said the activities were similar to preparations taken be- fore a chemical weapons attack in a rebel-held town in Idlib Province on April 4 that killed at least 89 people, including women and children. President Trump ordered strikes on a Syrian government air base in retaliation.
Spicer warned that if “Mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price.”
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