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Serbia says convicted war criminal Mladić to be buried with ‘highest honors’ | CNN
Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian-Serb general convicted of genocide, will be buried with the “highest military and state honors,” Serbia’s Minister of Justice Nenad Vujić announced Friday, according to the country’s state-run broadcaster.
Ugandan King Oyo Nyimba, once world’s youngest monarch, dies at 34 | CNN
Oyo Nyimba, a Ugandan king, who became the world’s youngest reigning monarch when he took the crown in 1995, has died aged 34, the prime minister of his kingdom announced.
Trump says he’ll make it easier for ranchers to process their own food after blowback over his beef policies | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will make it easier for ranchers to process their own meat, in an effort to weaken the control the nation’s four largest meatpacking firms have over the process.
Snipping a gene to reduce bad cholesterol for life looks possible | CNN
Gene editing reduced cholesterol by about 50% in an extremely small sample of patients over a year of follow-up, according to a new research update.
Republican governor asks his AG to look into ‘aggressive’ behavior by Trump admin’s election monitors | CNN Politics
Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon voiced concerns about the Justice Department election monitors who observed the primary election in his state last week, saying he’s asked his attorney general to look into their “aggressive” behavior.
Washington chemical tank was called unfit for service before deadly failure, investigators find | CNN
An inspection contractor found a chemical tank at a Washington state paper mill “not fit for continued service” 10 months before it failed in May, killing 11 in one of the deadliest U.S. workplace disasters in recent decades, according to a federal report released Friday.