AOC says Trump is 'tearing apart' transatlantic partnership

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AOC says Trump is 'tearing apart' partnership between US and Europe, more details revealed about Canada school shooter, and Costco $5 rotisserie chicken faces new lawsuit.

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1 | AOC says Trump is 'tearing apart transatlantic partnership' between US and Europe

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2 | Canada school shooter's online history shows fascination with violence and mass killings

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3 | Costco's $5 rotisserie chicken faces a new lawsuit - one that accuses its supplier of having a salmonella outbreak

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4 | DOJ investigating if ICE agents lied under oath after judge drops assault charges against Venezuelan men

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5 |Family told it must remove brothers' gravestone after it was deemed 'inappropriate'

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