A businessman in Christchurch who shared a video of worshippers being slaughtered at a New Zealand mosque was sentenced on Tuesday to 21 months in prison. Philip Arps pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing the video. The judge said that when questioned about the video, Arps described it as ’awesome’ and had shown no empathy toward the victims. Arps compared himself to a Nazi leader.

President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday Iran would not wage war against any nation. In a speech, Rouhani also dismissed US efforts to isolate Iran as unsuccessful and suggested the US administration of President Trump was inexperienced in international affairs.

The US is sending 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East as tensions with Iran continue to rise. Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan announced the new deployment, saying US Central Command requested the forces ’for defensive purposes to address air, naval and ground-based threats in the Middle East’. He cited the recent attacks on two oil tankers, alleging ’hostile behavior by Iranian forces’.

Hong Kong’s embattled chief executive is expected to offer an apology to protesters in person. This comes a day after Carrie Lam, in a meeting with a group of about 20 educators on Monday, claimed her decision to suspend the bill on Saturday meant ’total withdrawal’. Meanwhile, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a forceful endorsement of Lam on Monday.

A man arrested in Germany on suspicion of murdering a senior politician known for pro-migrant views was a far-right sympathizer, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said on Monday. Walter Luebcke, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, was found lying in a pool of blood on the terrace of his home in the state of Hesse two weeks ago. He had been shot in the head.

Harvard University has rescinded its admission offer to a survivor of the 2018 massacre at a Florida high school over his past use of racial slurs. The student, Kyle Kashuv, became the target of online criticism last month after images of a shared study guide from more than a year ago circulated on Twitter, showing he wrote anti-black slurs.

The FBI are currently investigating a targeted malware attack on controversial journalist Alex Jones, and his team. It was discovered during the process of court ordered discovery when a number of emails were found to be provided in error. These emails were found to have contained illicit child exploitation material and were found not to have been sent or received, nor opened by anyone.

A former physical education teacher accused of inappropriately touching dozens of first-grade girls has been indicted on charges of gross sexual imposition in Ohio. 25-year-old John Hopkins, of Springboro, was indicted Monday on 36 counts involving 28 girls. Authorities allege the misconduct occurred while Hopkins was a physical education teacher at Clearcreek Elementary School.

O.J. Simpson launched a Twitter account with a video post on Saturday in which he said he’s got a ’little gettin’ even to do’. Since creating the account on June 14, Simpson has posted three videos. In one video, he says for years, people had been able to say whatever they wanted about him with no accountability. In another video, he denied the rumor that he is Khloe Kardashian’s father.

A gunman shot two people in a Costco parking lot Monday in Southern California before turning his weapon on himself. This is the second deadly shooting at one of the warehouse clubs in three days. As per the police, the male suspect fired a handgun at his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend as they loaded shopping items into their car. The suspect died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

Genius, a popular site providing the lyrics to songs and possible interpretations, has accused Google of repeatedly using their content without permission or attribution. They used Morse code reading ’Red Handed’ based on two different Unicode apostrophes which render identically in typical, web-based fonts. Google claims independent partners are to blame.

Supporters of President Trump started lining up outside Orlando’s Amway Center for the president’s official re-election campaign kickoff rally, more than 40 hours before the event is scheduled to start. Trump’s rally is slated to start at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Trump tweeted on Monday morning that his campaign has received more than 100,000 ticket requests for the event.

The Supreme Court of the United States scrapped a lower court ruling against the owners of a bakery who refused to decorate a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, bouncing the Oregon case back to the state’s court system. This decision was based on an earlier SCOTUS ruling in a similar case fr Colorado, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which found in favor of the bakers.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom in an interview published Monday said the Republican Party is headed for the ’waste bin of history’. Newsom compared national Republicans to the GOP in California in the 1990s. Washington Republicans will ’go the same direction — into the waste bin of history, the way Republicans of the ’90s have gone’, Newsom said.

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed a legislation granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. The measure on Monday passed the state Senate by a 33-29 count. Cuomo has long supported the policy but expressed concern that information collected through the application process could be used against immigrants.

Former VP Joe Biden has a two-to-one advantage over the next closest Democratic presidential contender in a new poll. The national survey from Park Strategies finds Biden at 32 per cent support, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders at 15 per cent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 13 per cent. However, the poll added that 77 per cent of likely voters said they could still change their minds.

Elon Musk tweeted late on Sunday that he had ’just deleted’ his Twitter account, while also changing his Twitter display name temporarily to ’Daddy DotCom’, coinciding with Father’s Day. However, his Twitter account still appeared to be active after the post.

The founder and CEO of Huawei said the company will miss revenue forecasts by about $30 billion over the next couple of years. Ren Zhengfei blamed a US campaign against its business as a cause for the same. The embattled tech firm has become a flashpoint in the US-China trade war.

Franco-Israeli cable magnate Patrick Drahi made a surprise move into the art world by snapping up Sotheby’s in a deal worth $3.7 billion. The acquisition allows Drahi to join French billionaire Francois Pinault, who owns Sotheby’s main rival Christie’s, at the top of the art world and New York society.

Facebook unveiled its cryptocurrency offering, revealing a custodial wallet. Dubbed ’Calibra’, the wallet will serve Facebook’s coin, which will be known as ’Libra’. The wallet launch material shows the company giving a use case of sending money ’the way you send a message or a photo’.

Protests against a controversial extradition law resulted in Bitcoin (BTC) trading at a premium in Hong Kong. BTC has been trading between $75 and $160 over the global average on local exchange Tidebit. Experts predict an even further increase in premium over continued protests.

MoneyGram has announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Ripple (XRP). The deal enables MoneyGram to utilize Ripple’s xRapid product, leveraging XRP in foreign exchange settlement as part of MoneyGram’s global payment process. With an initial term of two years, Ripple will become MoneyGram’s key partner for cross-border settlement using digital assets.

Binance has announced the launch of crypto-pegged BEP2 trading pairs starting with a bitcoin-pegged token – BTCB. Users will be able to trade the BTCB/trading pair. According to Binance, the trading pairs of these BEP2 tokens will always that of a pegged token and its native cryptocurrency.