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China's dog meat festival opens despite ban rumours
A notorious Chinese dog meat festival opened on Wednesday with sellers torching the hair off carcasses, butchers chopping slabs of canines and cooks frying up dishes, dispelling rumours that authorities would ban sales this year. After earlier reports of a sales ban at the summer solstice event in the southern city of Yulin, animal rights groups said vendors and officials reached a compromise and set a limit of two dogs on display per stall. Behind two long rows of dog butchers at the Nanqiao market, others sold cow tongues and pork hocks.
U.S. Attorney General Sessions hires private attorney
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become the latest senior Trump administration official to hire a private attorney, a Justice Department spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Sessions has retained Washington-based lawyer Charles Cooper, whom spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores described as a long-time friend of the former senator. Cooper was present at Sessions' confirmation hearing and again when he testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month.
Inmates Rushed to Save Guard Who Passed Out: 'We Had to Help Him'
The inmates rushed to help an officer who lost consciousness on a hot Georgia day.
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