10 Things to Know for Today

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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. ON STATEN ISLAND, GROUP WORKS TO KEEP PEACE WITH POLICE

The “Cure Violence” team walks the neighborhoods in the NYC borough, looking to head off violence and defuse arguments that can lead to police shootings two years after Eric Garner died in a confrontation there with police officers.

2. WHO’S SKIPPING GOP CONVENTION

Some Republican senators – including John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Steve Daines – will steer clear of the convention amid the GOP establishment’s discomfort with presumptive nominee Donald Trump.

3. BANK OF ENGLAND OPTS AGAINST RATE CUT DESPITE BREXIT VOTE

In the immediate aftermath of the announcement, the pound was up 1.9 percent at $1.3367 and 1.5 percent firmer at 1.20 euros.

4. WHAT POLICE MAY EMPLOY AGAIN TO KILL VIOLENT SUSPECTS

Dallas officers were the first in the nation to use a robot to deliver and detonate a bomb to kill suspect in the sniper shootings, but other law enforcement agencies are willing to follow suit.

5. ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS POSE RISING THREAT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

But so far, ineffectual attacks by the extremist group’s followers in the region have shown them to be fragmented and lacking in expertise.

6. 8 OF 10 US DRIVERS ADMIT SOME LEVEL OF ‘ROAD RAGE’

The most aggressive and aggrieved of them are young men ages 19 to 39, a new AAA survey shows.

7. HAITIAN WOMEN PURSUE PATERNITY CLAIMS AGAINST UN PEACEKEEPERS

Mothers with children fathered by peacekeepers say they will now seek child support from the absentee fathers and the U.N.

8. MEDICAL EXAMINER FACES HIS TRAUMA, WEEKS AFTER PULSE RAMPAGE

Joshua Stephany experiences flashbacks of the carnage from the June 12 shootings that killed 49 at a Florida gay nightclub.

9. HOW WILDLY POPULAR SMARTPHONE GAME IS PLAYING OUT

The “Pokemon Go” craze across the U.S. has people wandering into yards, driveways and cemeteries in search of cartoon monsters.

10. ‘GAME OF THRONES,”’VEEP’ VIE FOR EMMY NODS

“Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson and Lauren Graham of “Gilmore Girls” will reveal the top Emmy nominations Thursday morning.

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