| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Progressive firebrand Elizabeth Warren is open to being Hillary Clinton's running mate in the presidential election, if invited, notwithstanding several considerable obstacles. She's concerned that two women on a presidential ticket would hurt Democrats' chances against their Republican nemesis Donald Trump. Warren also thinks she may have a stronger voice in her current job as a U.S. senator than as vice president or in any other cabinet position. What Clinton would get out of it is a strong progressive pit bull with which to woo Bernie Sanders voters and attack Trump. Warren, for her part, would conceivably have a powerful bully pulpit to advance her progressive agenda. The two Democrats have not yet discussed the matter, but Warren is likely to announce her endorsement within two weeks.
Israeli policemen arrest a suspected man following a shooting attack that took place in the center of Tel Aviv June 8, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer Two Palestinian men killed four Israelis in a trendy restaurant complex in Tel Aviv. Both shooters came from the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They dressed in suits and ties and posed as customers at an upmarket restaurant before pulling out automatic weapons and opening fire, sending diners fleeing in panic. The shooters were caught and the Israeli military revoked permits for more than 80,000 Palestinians to visit Israel during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Russia introduced a new medium-range passenger plane that state media said was superior to Boeing and Airbus planes. Russia is hoping the plane, which is expected to go into mass production next year, will help the country counter strains on its economy since the West imposed sanctions for its role in the Ukraine crisis.
Around the country - With the prayer service for the late Muhammad Ali slated for this afternoon, Reuters' podcast Keeping Score explores his life and legacy, including the effects he had on sports, social justice and television.
- The judge who gave a six-month jail term to a former Stanford University swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious young woman has received a string of death threats after the sentence was widely condemned as too lenient.
- One for the annals of @FloridaMan, this gentleman thought it would be a good idea to abduct a child in full view of his mother – and supermarket security cameras. He was unsuccessful, thanks to the mother beating the living pulp out of him. He was caught by police while trying to flee, and faces child abuse and attempted kidnapping charges.
Around Wall Street - A combination of oversupply of natural gas and a boom in solar and other renewable energy has depressed power prices and threatened the viability of natural gas plants that sell power into California's electricity market. These developments are good for consumers and the environment, but tough on power producers who placed huge bets on natural gas.
- Apple beefed up its App Store to give developers a bigger cut of revenue. But the new features may not ease concerns of developers and analysts who say that the App Store model - and the very idea of the single-purpose app – is past its prime.
- For the first time in five years, gold miners are studying ways to raise production, backed by healthier balance sheets, a 17 percent rise in the price of gold since January and new investors.
Around the world - Two bombs went off in Baghdad killing at least 22 people and wounding 70 others. The attacks come as Iraqi forces are trying to dislodge Islamic State militants from Falluja, their stronghold just west of Baghdad.
- A Chinese navy ship sailed close to what Japan considers its territorial waters in the East China Sea for the first time, escalating tensions between the two countries in the region.
Digits of the day: 16,000 The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum recovered more than 16,000 personal items belonging to victims of the Nazi death camps. The items – jewelry, thermometers, cutlery, empty medicine bottles, keys and brushes -- had been discovered in 1967 by archaeologists searching an area where a gas chamber and crematorium had stood during World War II. They had been stored away in 48 cardboard boxes in the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and left there until the museum tracked them down.
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