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Today — 1 June 2024News

Mexico expected to elect first woman president in historic election

1 June 2024 at 19:14
In Mexico, two women vying for the presidency lead the polls for the first time in the country’s 200-year history. Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez will face off at the polls on Sunday against a backdrop of political bloodshed that has gripped the country. NBC News’ Guad Venegas reports.

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In Mexico, two women vying for the presidency lead the polls for the first time in the country’s 200-year history. Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez will face off at the polls on Sunday against a backdrop of political bloodshed that has gripped the country. NBC News’ Guad Venegas reports.

Meet Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA Astronauts Riding on Boeing’s Starliner

1 June 2024 at 11:48
After a May 6 liftoff was scrubbed, the astronauts returned to their home base in Houston and continued their preparations for Saturday’s flight.

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The astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on their way to the Starliner spacecraft on May 6, before the launch was called off.

Police arrest 34 people at the Brooklyn Museum after pro-Palestinian protesters occupy building

The New York Police Department said Saturday it took 34 people into custody after responding to a pro-Palestinian protest in Brooklyn, New York, that led to reports of damaged artwork and staff harassment at the Brooklyn Museum.

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A banner hangs from the Brooklyn Museum in New York on Friday.

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Police detain a pro-Palestinian demonstrator in front of the Brooklyn Museum on Friday in New York.

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New York City on May 31.

Boeing forced to call off its first launch with NASA astronauts once again

NASA and Boeing were forced once again to call off the first crewed launch of the company’s Starliner spacecraft.

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Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.

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Boeing's Starliner capsule, atop an Atlas V rocket on June 1, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Voting ends in the last round of India’s election, a referendum on PM Modi’s decade in power

India’s six-week-long national election came to an end Saturday as the last of the country’s hundreds of millions of voters went to the polls for a contest that’s widely seen as a referendum on Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power.

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People cast their ballot at a polling station on the outskirts of Amritsar on Saturday.

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Polling officials seal Electronic Voting Machines at a polling station in Jalandhar on Saturday.

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People stand in queues to cast their vote in Varanasi , India, on Saturday.
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