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The husband of murdered British MP Jo Cox says she was killed because of her "strong" political views.  The 41-year old Labour pol had only been in office for a year, but already made a mark with her assistance to immigrants and lower income folks.  The man charged with her murder was heard screaming "Britain first" - the slogan of those who want the UK to vote to leave the European Union in a referendum later this week.  "She was particularly worried about the direction of, not just of in the UK but globally," said Brandan Cox, "Of politics at the moment, particularly around creating division and playing on people's worst fears rather than their best instincts."

The fight over British's continued membership in the European Union got positively ridiculous, as the "Leave" and "Remain" sides debated in front of a crowd of thousands in Wembley Arena, debasing the very serious matter to the level of crowd pleasing zingers and loud rounds of applause and bellowing.  Seriously, why not just have soccer fans fight it out?  The BBC would like to tell us that rival sides faced questions on the economy, immigration, and Britain's place in the world.   Separately, football star David Beckham finally rang in and backed the "Remain" campaign.  SMDH.

One of those "tough questions" had the "Remain" side denying claims that Turkey - with its human rights abuses, press restrictions, and autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked in by a horse) - was going to join the EU.  At present, it is not.  Even PM David Cameron had to speak up to deny claims made by the "Leave" campaign.  But Europe needs Turkey to stop the flow of refugees, and Turkey has been making demands of the continental body.  Former French president Nikolas Sarkozy went to Berlin on Tuesday to tell German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Turkish membership in the EU is "unthinkable".  As if to confirm Sarkozy's point, Turkey arrested two journalists and an academic for disseminating "terrorist propaganda" by supporting a Kurdish Magazine that is the target of government harassment.

A poll shows a majority of Canadians are concerned about the insanity south of the border:  76 percent of those responding to an Abacus Data Poll believe that a Trump presidency would be "bad" for Canada (no sh_t); 82 percent believe Trump is a flaming racist.  The country's largest airline Air Canada has launched a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign urging Americans to visit the northern neighbor and "try it out", in case that freakin' idiot Trump gets elected and they want to flee the USA.

Apparently, there is no number of Americans slaughtered in a mass shooting that is high enough to get US Republicans to disobey their campaign contributors in the NRA.  Republican Senators on Monday blocked a series of gun control proposals, including one to block gun sales to people on terrorism watch lists.  That means someone like the gunman who killed 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida two weekends ago will still be able to go out and legally purchase an AR-15 or similar assault weapon for whatever such a person is planning.

A bad day for bears in America:  Game wardens in New Mexico had to track and kill a mother bear who attacked a jogger who accidentally got too close during an event at the Valles Caldera National Preserve.  The woman was flown to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, treated and released; but the bear, who was wearing a tracking collar as part of a larger study on the beasts, had to put down to test it for rabies.  Her three cubs are now motherless.  Up north in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, a grizzly cub named "Snowy" was killed in a likely hit and run; its mother, a grizzly sow well-known to nature lovers, was seen desperately trying to revive her offspring.

At least this big black bear in New Jersey got to take a dip in a family's backyard swimming pool before disappearing back into the woods 40 kilometers west of NYC.