Headlines on 2019-06-23

President Trump is facing a new accusation of sexual assault, this time from prominent advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with her.

The video game industry is facing a major challenge due to so-called "loot boxes," which offer a selection of randomized in-game loot to players for a price. Two countries have outright banned game makers from using loot boxes in their games, and a US senator is proposing legislation that would prohibit the sale of loot boxes in games available to minors. The game industry and its representative political body, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), have yet to respond to the threat of...

Europe's second-tier golfing circuit is the Challenge Tour, a name which relates both to the difficulty for the players and also for the administrators.

For the first time, I finally got to use a Dell XPS laptop, one of the most popular laptops out there. After a couple months, it became pretty clear why it's such a beloved line from Dell.  The performance, design, and features are right on the money for the price tag. But of course, it's not entirely perfect. I'd recommend this thing to anyone who wants a reliable and compact Windows 10 machine. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. I've been using Dell's most recent XPS 13...

SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that SpaceX is accelerating the development of Starship, a rocket that is designed to go to Mars. He also said that people can start reserving places to Mars after it returns from orbit around Earth. Musk previously said that Starship has a 60% chance of launching into orbit by 2020. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that people can start reserving seats to Mars as soon as...

Brazilians gathered today for a massive LGBTQ Pride parade in the city of Sao Paulo. This, despite the new president's record of homophobic statements.

Migrant children face bleak conditions at detention facilities along the border. Warren Binford, a law professor who visited some of the facilities, speaks to NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro.

Former president Jimmy Carter addressed the U.S. tensions with Iran in a Sunday school lesson at the church he attends in Plains, Ga.

After results of the March election, in which the opposition party won, residents voted again on Sunday in what is widely being seen as a referendum on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

A high-ranking Wall Street stock strategist breaks down a plausible chain of events that could send the US stock market quickly tumbling.  Christopher Wood, head of global equity strategy at Jefferies, is specifically worried about escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf, what that would mean for oil prices, and how that would impact the overall equity market. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The stock market got everything it asked for last week. After climbing in...

Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel's long-shot 2020 presidential campaign is being managed entirely on the Internet primarily by three teenagers and former high school classmates from Westchester, New York.  David Oks, Henry Williams, and Elijah Emery have built a following of 95,000 Twitter followers on which they troll other 2020 candidates and tweet about their leftist policy ideas from Gravel's account. In an interview with INSIDER, Williams said the initial goal of the campaign was to get Gravel on...

President Donald Trump cleared up his past jokes about abolishing term limits Sunday, confirming the he "only joke[s]" about violating the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, which limits the president to two terms in office. Trump told NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd that he makes those comments to "drive Chuck Todd crazy." The president also cleared up an awkward moment in a "Fox & Friends" interview earlier this month where he hesitated to confirm he would endorse Vice President...