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• Fact Check: CDC has not stopped reporting flu deaths, and this season's numbers are typical

  30-04-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A claim that the CDC has stopped tracking flu deaths because the number of deaths is so low is false.
  
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• Column: As coronavirus deaths rise, Jared Kushner pushes Trump's 'great success story'

  30-04-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With his fingers all over the White House's catastrophic coronavirus policy, Jared Kushner is treating pandemic mayhem as a mere publicity challenge.
  
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• 'And then, boom': Outbreak shows shaky ground as Texas opens

  30-04-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County could make a pretty good argument for Texas' reopening on Friday.The mayor of Paris, Texas — a pit stop for drivers passing through to snap a selfie with the city's miniaturized Eiffel Tower — had drive-thru virus testing in the works, just to give locals peace of mind.A courier drove 11 hours through the night to pick up testing kits and stores are second-guessing reopening as Lamar County becomes a cautionary tale of the fragility of Republican
  
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• Top House Democrat Says Tara Reade Allegation against Biden Should Be “Investigated Seriously”

  30-04-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said Wednesday that the sexual-assault allegation against Joe Biden must be “investigated seriously” and that Biden will likely have to address the claim directly.“It’s got to be taken seriously because this is a serious allegation raised by a serious individual and needs to be investigated seriously. We’ve probably got to hear from him [Biden] at some point directly,” Jeffries&n
  
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• Local Police, Courts Caught Short as Louisiana Pastor Continues Holding Services Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

  30-04-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pastor Tony Spell of the Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge was arrested on April 21 for aggravated assault and improper backing when on April 19 he drove his church bus towards a man who was protesting the Pastor's decision to continue to hold services with large crowds of people.
  
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• "COVID toes" may be coronavirus symptom

  30-04-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I have seen more toes in the past two weeks in my clinic than I have in my entire previous career combined," one dermatologist tells CBS News.
  
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• Trump confident that coronavirus may have originated in Chinese lab

  30-04-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was confident the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab, but declined to describe the evidence, ratcheting up tensions with Beijing over the origins of the deadly outbreak.Trump did not mince words at a White House event on Thursday, when asked if he had seen evidence that gave him a "high degree of confidence" the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.The Chinese state-backed Wuhan Institute of Virology has dismissed
  
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• Oregon aims to include brewpubs, wineries in reopening

  30-04-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oregon is planning to allow its famed microbreweries and wine tasting rooms to reopen when it starts loosening stay-home orders, rejecting a federal recommendation that bars remain closed.Oregonians will be able to hoist a glass at their neighborhood watering holes under Gov. Kate Brown's draft plan released on Thursday for the state's first phase of reopening.The “Opening Up America Again Guidelines” released by Trump on April 16 recommends that while restaurants open with strict di
  
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• Far too many patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Georgia are black, new CDC data shows — a staggering 83%

  30-04-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The findings highlight stark racial disparities in the coronavirus outbreak, reinforcing national data showing that black communities are hardest hit.
  
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• Tenants in the US are planning the largest rent strike in decades as the coronavirus cuts off more than 30 million people from their incomes

  30-04-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We need our rent canceled," said Vanessas Bulnes, a renter and organizer in Oakland, California. "We need forgiveness. We need it gone."
  
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• 23 photos show what life in North Korea is like during its coronavirus lockdown

  30-04-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea has implemented a number of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but its claims of zero cases are highly unlikely.
  
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• California governor closes Orange County beaches

  30-04-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Governor Gavin Newsom said the state is issuing a "hard close" of beaches in Orange County during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• No arrests after black man shot dead while jogging

  30-04-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ahmaud Arbery's mother says she feels "very discouraged" by the investigation into her son's death.
  
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• FBI docs suggest agents prepared to close Flynn case — then reversed course

  30-04-2020 23:00 via politico.com
  
  Michael Flynn’s allies say the new filings offer more evidence that the FBI concocted its case against Trump’s ousted national security adviser.
  
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• Trump: Medicare paying to provide at-home coronavirus testing for seniors

  30-04-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump delivers remarks on protecting America's senior citizens.
  
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• Venezuela refuses to withdraw diplomats from Brazil

  30-04-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's government stepped up a diplomatic spat with neighbor Brazil on Thursday, accusing it of putting Venezuelan diplomats under "undue pressure" to leave the country within 48 hours.Brazil is one of around 60 countries to recognize Maduro's opposition rival Juan Guaido as Venezuela's acting president and announced on March 5 it was ordering Maduro-appointed diplomats to withdraw.The foreign ministry in Caracas accused Brazil of "attempting to force the premature
  
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• 2 men detained in burning deaths of transgender women

  30-04-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the men admitted to the double killings, saying it was done for "reasons of revenge."
  
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• Letters to the Editor: Newsom's right. Crowding beaches in a pandemic is not your birthright as a Californian

  30-04-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Calls to open all beaches because Californians have a right to them are silly and dangerous. Gov. Newsom is making the right call.
  
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• Cuban embassy in Washington struck by gunfire, suspect arrested

  30-04-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man armed with a high-powered assault fired multiple rounds at the Cuban embassy in Washington early Thursday, authorities said, damaging the building but without causing any injuries.Police arrested the suspect, identified as 42-year-old Alexander Alazo of Aubrey, Texas."This morning at approximately 2:15 am, US Secret Service officers responded to the Embassy of Cuba following reports of shots fired," the Secret Service said in a statement.
  
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• Video: Mike Pence showers praise on Trump's leadership in pandemic

  30-04-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The vice president has demonstrated one crucial ability for his post: to sprinkle every public utterance with the phrase “Under your leadership, Mr. President...”
  
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• California gov issues ‘hard close’ to Orange County beaches

  30-04-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials in the U.S. state's Orange and Ventura Counties had allowed access to their beaches last weekend, prompting families and groups to head to the ocean.The crowds on the beaches put at risk California's progress in slowing the advance of the novel coronavirus, Newsom said.Newsom on Thursday said, "We're going to do a hard close in that part of the state, just in the Orange County area."The announcement came after a memo was sent on Wednesday by the governor's office to California's police
  
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• 80,000 cruise workers are still stuck aboard ships in US waters. Staff members say it's 'embarrassing' they're not allowed to disembark.

  30-04-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Up to 80,000 crew members are stuck on 120 cruise ships on US waters, and it's unclear when they'll touch land again.
  
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• Turning Point USA Brags about Rejecting ‘Big Government’ Coronavirus Relief Loan after Applying For It

  30-04-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turning Point USA, a young conservative political organization run by Charlie Kirk, applied for a $1.2 million small business coronavirus loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), only to publicize an ideological rejection of it as “money from big government.”Kirk, who tweeted on Wednesday that his organization was “rejecting” a loan, did not confirm whether Turning Point had in fact applied in the first place.“Accepting any form of government assistance w
  
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• Maryland called in National Guard troops to defend coronavirus tests from South Korea against seizure

  30-04-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The National Guard and state police are both guarding these tests at an undisclosed location," Gov. Hogan said of 500,000 tests from South Korea.
  
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• Trump news - live: President claims he has seen evidence coronavirus came from Wuhan lab and says he would consider bringing back Michael Flynn

  30-04-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump was up late on Twitter again on Wednesday night continuing to stew over negative press coverage of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, attacking TV news anchors Brian Williams, Don Lemon and Joe Scarborough, saying of the former he “wouldn’t know the truth if it was nailed to his wooden forehead”.With the US death toll from the outbreak now soaring beyond 60,000, the president’s latest briefing at the White House on Wednesday saw
  
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• Elon Musk admits Tesla's plan for a million-strong robotaxi network may not happen this year after all

  30-04-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Plenty of people, including Uber's CEO, were skeptical of the goal when Elon Musk first announced the audacious timeline last year.
  
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• 'Maybe it has covid': California's health department website crashed a minute after Elon Musk linked to it in Twitter tirade

  30-04-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  His tweet almost immediately caused California's Open Data Portal to go down because of a "spike in traffic," health officials told Business Insider.
  
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• Trump World Star and Budding Conspiracy Theorist Lead Protest of Michigan’s Virus Lockdown

  30-04-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of protesters, some of them armed with assault rifles, gathered at Michigan’s state Capitol on Thursday, demanding entry onto the state Senate floor to confront lawmakers set to debate an extension of the stay-at-home order in place to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus.  The “American Patriot Rally” outside of the Lansing building was aimed at Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who had made an appeal this week to extend the public health order as the
  
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• GOP governors who took the coronavirus seriously saw a huge polling bump. Trump didn't and is tanking.

  30-04-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican governors who took the coronavirus seriously from the start, and in some cases pushed against Trump, have seen a surge in approval.
  
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• Huge racial disparity in COVID hospitalizations in Georgia, study finds

  30-04-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The study comes one day after Georgia's death toll from the virus passed 1,000.
  
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• Ex-Honduran national police chief charged in New York

  30-04-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former chief of the Honduran National Police faces drug and weapons charges in New York, where prosecutors claimed Thursday that he traded his law enforcement clout to protect U.S.-bound shipments of cocaine.The charges were brought against Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, known as “El Tigre” or “The Tiger," in Manhattan federal court.Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Bonilla played a key role in a violent international drug conspiracy, working on behalf of for
  
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• Republican lawmakers vote by mail to restrict ... vote by mail

  30-04-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While under the state's stay-at-home orders, Louisiana lawmakers voted by mail against the state's voters' ability to vote by mail in upcoming elections.Republicans in the state's legislature objected to a plan that would allow absentee ballots for people who fear being exposed to the coronavirus, claiming that mail-in voting is ripe for voter fraud — despite voting for the legislation by mail.
  
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• Here's What You Need to Know About the Planned Worker's Strike at Whole Foods, Instacart, Amazon, and More

  30-04-2020 22:03 via myrecipes.com
  
  Frontline workers at companies including Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and even FedEx plan to stage a “sickout” on May 1.
  
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• Most of U.S. House urges more diplomacy at U.N. to renew Iran arms embargo: sources

  30-04-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 90% of U.S. House of Representatives members have signed a letter urging the Trump administration to increase its diplomatic action at the United Nations to renew an arms embargo on Iran, congressional sources said on Thursday.In a rare show of bipartisanship, at least 382 of the 429 members of the Democratic-controlled House - Democrats and Republicans - have signed the letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to work with U.S. allies and partners to extend the embargo, as wel
  
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• COVID-19 Meat Shortages Could Last for Months. Here's What to Know Before Your Next Grocery Shopping Trip

  30-04-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Meat's going to be harder to find and more expensive, possibly for the rest of the year. Here's what to know
  
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• Coronavirus: Why Nigeria's rice handouts aren't going down well

  30-04-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There are allegations that some of the thousands of bags of rice given as food handouts have expired.
  
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• Nearly a dozen approved drugs could be effective against COVID-19: study

  30-04-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The researchers mapped the human proteins the virus interacts with inside the body when it infects cells and makes copies of itself, then looked for compounds that could block the virus from using those proteins.The result showed that 47 compounds in cell cultures had the desired effect, at least 10 of which are already in approved drugs or being studied for diverse conditions, but could be repurposed against COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.Researchers have been rushing to de
  
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• 8 things you need to know before making or buying your own mask

  30-04-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Before you buy a face mask make sure its made of the best material to protect yourself from the coronavirus.
  
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• 'Unconscionable' body overflow at funeral home prompts probe

  30-04-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It started with reports of a strange stench in Brooklyn.Police who investigated found another example of how the cornavirus has overwhelmed the city: A funeral home had resorted to storingdozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks.Now state officials say the funeral home could face fines and license suspensions, and the owner says he simply ran out of room because the business had bodies "coming out our ears.”
  
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• Jordan ends historic arrangement with Israel as West Bank annexation tensions rise

  30-04-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jordan's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ambassador Dhaifallah Al-Fayez, said the additional harvesting period "will end this evening."
  
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• Records Show Strzok Intervened when FBI Moved to Close Flynn Investigation Due to Lack of ‘Derogatory Information’

  30-04-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New unsealed FBI memos show that the Bureau found “no derogatory information” on former national security adviser Michael Flynn while investigating his alleged Russian contacts, and moved to close their investigation of him in early January 2017 before former FBI agent Peter Strzok intervened, asking to keep the case open.The documents, which were released Thursday by the Department of Justice, show that Flynn was given the codename “Crossfire Razor” and investigated in a
  
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• People of black African origin three times more likely to die of coronavirus than white Britons, study finds

  30-04-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People of black African origin are three times more likely to die of coronavirus in the UK than white Britons, analysis by the Institute of Fiscal Studies has shown. A report into the disproportionate Covid-19 death toll among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the UK found deaths among people of black Caribbean origin are 1.8 times those of white British people. Deaths among those of Pakistani heritage are 2.7 times as high, and black African fatalities three times higher. The hi
  
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• Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns in the state Capitol, demonstrate against Michigan's emergency measures

  30-04-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters held signs, waved American flags and even carried firearms as lawmakers debated extending Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's state of emergency.
  
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• Elon Musk says every company should maximize the 'curve of customer happiness' — here's what that means

  30-04-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elon Musk said Tesla's goal is to maximize the area under this curve, and it's "the kind of thing that all companies should try to do."
  
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• Missouri Islamic Center destroyed in arson fire

  30-04-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Worshipers react after the Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau in Missouri was destroyed in an arson fire April 24, the first full day of Ramadan. Alayna Chapie reports for CBS affiliate KFVS.
  
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• American plans to shrink, says no hubs will close: 'No way to overstate the gravity of this situation'

  30-04-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The airline is retiring more than 100 jets earlier than planned and says more may be ahead as it grapples with a dearth of passengers.
  
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• The Next-Gen Air Force One Is Already Over Budget

  30-04-2020 21:22 via popularmechanics.com
  
  The converted Boeing 747s, designed to carry the POTUS, will fly in 2024.
  
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• House Oversight Republicans Urge Democrats to Investigate China’s Influence over WHO

  30-04-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans on the House Oversight Committee on Thursday urged Democrats leading the committee to investigate the Chinese government's influence over the World Health Organization.Ranking member Jim Jordan along with five Republican ranking members on oversight subcommittees sent a letter to Democratic Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney calling on Democrats to investigate China's sway over the WHO.“The potential misuse of taxpayer dollars is at the heart of the Committee’s jurisdiction, and
  
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• Trump fires new volley in war of words with Biden over China

  30-04-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden and his campaign have been unloading ads accusing Trump of weakness on China and conducted a series of local television interviews in swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, lambasting what they see as the Republican president's botched handling of the coronavirus pandemic that started in China but has now killed more than 60,000 people in the United States.In its most incendiary language yet, an aide from the Biden campaign told Reuters that Trump's handling of the crisis
  
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• Gov. Brian Kemp plans to lift Georgia's statewide stay-at-home order for most residents on Friday

  30-04-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state's stay-at-home will expire for most residents on May 1, requiring the elderly and "medically fragile," to shelter in place through June 12.
  
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