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• COVID-19 patients wrong to think breathing tubes 'synonymous with death,' doctors warn

  06-05-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The key to caring for patients on ventilators, who often have to remain intubated and connected to them for two weeks, is "profoundily simplistic," said Harrell.
  
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• 'Ahmaud Arbery's life matters': Attorneys, rights leaders demand arrests in slaying of Georgia jogger

  06-05-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorneys say they shouldn't have to wait for a grand jury to convene in June and urge police to make arrests in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.
  
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• U.S. strengthens arms to nullify China's missile supremacy

  06-05-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A long-term struggle between China and the United States is at a turning point, as the United States rolls out new weapons and strategy in a bid to close a wide missile gap with China.
  
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• 'Sporadic for you but not sporadic for a lot of other people': Trump contradicts nurse on PPE availability

  06-05-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A nurse who told Trump PPE availability has been "sporadic" said she's been reusing a N-95 mask "for weeks."
  
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• Elon Musk keeps attacking lockdowns and US coronavirus death counts. His arguments ignore a dangerous reality.

  06-05-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Musk criticized lockdowns as "fascist" and called American death counts a "lie," but his arguments ignore established science and common sense.
  
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• The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group, had its biggest day of fundraising after the president attacked it on Twitter

  06-05-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump went after the conservative-led group over an ad it released criticizing his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Asian American woman harassed by self-identified Trump supporter thanks bystanders

  06-05-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Americans said we don’t want you here,” the harasser said in a video. “That’s why we elected President Trump."
  
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• Maduro says captured Americans to be tried in Venezuela

  06-05-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela will try two Americans allegedly captured during a failed raid by mercenaries, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday as the US vowed to "use every tool available" to bring them home.Venezuela announced on Monday that it had arrested the pair on suspicion of trying to topple Maduro in an operation supported by the US-backed opposition."They are convicts, confessed, caught red-handed and are being judged by the republic's attorney general, by Venezuela's civil courts, and the proces
  
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• Scared to Return to Work Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic? These Federal Laws Could Grant You Some Protections

  06-05-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal labor laws also offer protections to American workers who feel unsafe. Here’s what to know about those rights
  
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• Expert tells US Congress virus fight could last years

  06-05-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top health expert warned US lawmakers Wednesday to brace for a "long and difficult" war against the coronavirus, as Congress held its first hearings about the fight against the pandemic.Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Obama administration, said the government must prepare better to enable it to defeat the virus that has ravaged much of the world.The United States has a world-leading 1.2 million confirmed coronavirus infections and 72,000 de
  
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• Israeli top court throws Netanyahu a lifeline

  06-05-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a sign of the importance of the decisions, 11 supreme court justices heard the cases in comparison to the usual three- or five-judge panels.
  
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• Czechs sign joint 5G security declaration with United States

  06-05-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Czech Republic has signed a joint declaration with the United States to strengthen cooperation on next-generation 5G networks and promote rigorous evaluations of suppliers and supply chains, Czech leader Andrej Babis said on Wednesday.The United States has long advised countries to boycott Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's biggest maker of telecoms equipment, in setting up new 5G mobile phone networks, and also to scrutinise gear from another Chinese firm, ZTE.
  
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• Fox News Anchor: Tara Reade Allegations ‘Drive a Stake Into Heart’ of #MeToo Movement

  06-05-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum asserted on Wednesday that the sexual-assault allegations made against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by former Senate staffer Tara Reade has essentially driven “a stake into the heart” of the MeToo movement.Reacting to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s insistence this week that the accusation by Reade that Biden assaulted her back in 1993 is a “closed issue” and she won’t answer questions on it again,
  
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• 42 public companies are returning their small business loans after Mnuchin threat

  06-05-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's threats may have worked, at least in part.The Associated Press reports 42 public companies as of Wednesday have agreed to return the $337 million they received as part of the federal government's small business loan strategy known as the Payroll Protection Program. The PPP was set up to help small businesses pay their employees, but larger companies like Shake Shack and the Los Angeles Lakers drew criticism when they were also revealed as recipients (both have
  
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• Israeli Supreme Court: Netanyahu may form government

  06-05-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may form a new government while under indictment for corruption charges, clearing the way for him and his rival-turned-uneasy ally to join together in a controversial power-sharing deal.Netanyahu and his rival-turned-partner, Benny Gantz, said they expected their coalition to be sworn into office next week.After battling to three inconclusive elections over the past year, Netanyahu and Gantz, a former military chief, a
  
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• Top US diplomat says 'it's our responsibility' to bring back any Americans from botched, unsanctioned raid in Venezuela

  06-05-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The CEO of the US-based security firm said 2 ex-US soldiers were trying to inspire Venezuelans to "flip and join in the liberation of their country."
  
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• Air Force Special Operators Get New Specialty Code Amid Field Consolidation

  06-05-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Air Force has created a new Air Force Specialty Code that will move its special tactics, tactical air control party (TACP) and combat rescue officers into their own special warfare tier.
  
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• A Kansas farmer who donated one of his only N95 masks to New York was given a bachelor's degree by the same university he dropped out of in 1971

  06-05-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Farmer Dennis Ruhnke wrote New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a letter and urged him to pass along the unused N95 mask to a worker who needed it.
  
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• Norwegian Cruise Line gets rescue package a day after it warns of financial doom

  06-05-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The cruise operator said it has lined up $2.2 billion in financing that can keep it in business up to a year.
  
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• Colombian President Duque declares new state of emergency to ease pain of virus lockdown

  06-05-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colombia has declared a second state of emergency to support sectors of the economy that will remain shut down for an extended period to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, President Ivan Duque said on Wednesday.The state of economic emergency allows the president to issue decrees without prior authorization from the Andean country's congress during times of crisis or a threat to Colombia's security.Under the Constitution, the government can declare a state of emergency for up to 30 days
  
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• Was that a flush? U.S. Supreme Court handles teleconference experiment

  06-05-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court's experiment in conducting oral arguments by teleconference this week - a change forced by the coronavirus pandemic - went rather smoothly right up until what sounded suspiciously like a toilet flush was broadcast to the world.It occurred during the court's second argument on Wednesday and fourth of the week when liberal Justice Elena Kagan was questioning attorney Roman Martinez in a case involving a federal law cracking down on so-called robocalls.While Martinez was spea
  
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• A 'shocking' two-thirds of patients recently hospitalized in NY had been staying home

  06-05-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "They're not working; they're not traveling," Cuomo said. "... They were predominantly at home."
  
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• A tale of two parks: Enjoying the sun in wealthy Manhattan, social distancing under police scrutiny in the Bronx

  06-05-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Blogger Ed García Conde, who runs the Instagram page Welcome2TheBronx, captured contrasting park photos on May 2 that show differences in how the NYPD is enforcing social distancing.
  
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• The mysterious X-37B space plane is going back into orbit — here's what it'll be doing up there

  06-05-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The X-37B has already spent nearly eight years in space, and it is headed back on its sixth mission on May 16.
  
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• Biden appears to lengthen lead over Trump despite sex assault allegations, new poll finds

  06-05-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden has continued to grow his lead over Donald Trump in national polls, despite his presidential campaign having been forced to push back against sexual assault allegations stemming from his days in the Senate.The former vice president garnered 50 per cent of support among registered voters in a Monmouth University poll published on Wednesday, a steady increase from prior months. Meanwhile, Mr Trump held onto 41 per cent of support among voters, as three per cent said they would vote for a
  
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• A city in India is ordering all of its residents to download the government's controversial COVID-19 contact tracing app or face jail time

  06-05-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Those who refuse to download the state-made app face up to six months in jail. Less than half of India is estimated to own a smartphone.
  
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• United States' Khalilzad to meet Taliban in Qatar, visit India, Pakistan

  06-05-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. special envoy on Afghanistan is on a mission to press Taliban negotiators in Doha and officials in India and Pakistan to support reduced violence, speeding up intra-Afghan peace talks and cooperating on the coronavirus pandemic, the State Department said on Wednesday.U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad’s trip comes amid concerns that surging Taliban attacks and the coronavirus pandemic could deal potentially fatal blows to his stalled efforts to end decades of strife in A
  
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• Coronavirus: Nigeria's death penalty by Zoom 'inhumane'

  06-05-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A man is sentenced to hang for murder after a virtual court session amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Coronavirus: Hands on with NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app

  06-05-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rory Cellan-Jones gets an early look at the app, which could play a critical role in easing the lockdown.
  
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• Billions could face temperatures inhospitable to life in the next 50 years, study finds

  06-05-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that we must be looking at hundreds of millions of people being triggered to migrate,” an author of the study said.
  
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• German government asks Lockheed, MBDA to rebid on missile defense system

  06-05-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest request for a proposal for the TLVS program is the third iteration, after previous attempts to draft a contract failed.
  
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• Elon Musk and Grimes named their newborn baby after this short-lived CIA spy plane able to fly over 2,000 mph

  06-05-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The A-12 in the unconventional baby name "X Æ A-12" is representative of the CIA spy plane that served as the predecessor of the SR-71 Blackbird.
  
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• Elon Musk and Grimes named their newborn baby after a short-lived CIA spy plane able to fly over 2,000 mph

  06-05-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The A-12 in the unconventional baby name "X Æ A-12" is representative of the CIA spy plane that served as the predecessor of the SR-71 Blackbird.
  
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• Pompeo has no evidence about virus lab leak: China 

  06-05-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China hit back Wednesday at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his claims that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, saying he "doesn't have any" evidence.Washington and Beijing have clashed repeatedly over the virus, which emerged in China late last year but has since spiralled into a global pandemic.Theories that the virus came from a maximum-security virology lab in Wuhan have swirled since earlier this year, but were brought into the mainstream last month by US government
  
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• New US campus sex assault plan gets pushback

  06-05-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US universities must allow assault victims and defendants to be cross-examined under new guidance.
  
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• Reopened restaurant tells workers: Don't wear face masks — or don't work

  06-05-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Restaurant workers in a reopened Dallas eatery say they are being asked to weigh their safety against their jobs.
  
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• Who was Joe Biden's first wife, Neilia, and how did she and their daughter die?

  06-05-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden‘s ongoing recovery from the trauma of the deaths of his first wife and youngest child have dramatically shaped his career, from the ways in which he speaks to crowds about grief and mourning to his views on health care.Though not unique to his brand of politicking, the former vice president and 2020 Democratic nominee for president has famously framed his current ideas through the lens of his past.
  
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• Llamas may hold the key to an effective coronavirus treatment

  06-05-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Llamas: They're more than just the cuddly creatures that inspired everything T.J. Maxx sells.These squishable-when-they're-not-spitting camelids hold antibodies that could be the key to treating COVID-19, scientists suggested in a study published Tuesday in the journal Cell. Llamas' antibodies are known for their ability to neutralize viruses, and when tested against the new coronavirus, proved effective in doing so once again, the study says.While humans produce just one set of antibodies when
  
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• This $10 protective mask includes a filter and is surprisingly comfortable

  06-05-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's even helped reduce the amount of fog on my glasses.
  
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• Indian ministry website crashes in repatriation 'panic'

  06-05-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Indian civil aviation ministry's website crashed on Wednesday as panicked citizens abroad rushed to register for a repatriation of almost 15,000 nationals from 12 countries on planes and naval ships.India banned all incoming international flights in late March as it imposed one of the world's strictest virus lockdowns, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers and students stranded abroad.Under the first phase of the mass effort announced on Tuesday, two ships were heading towards the Maldive
  
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• Employees at reopened Texas restaurants say managers forbade them from wearing protective masks at work

  06-05-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Staff from Hillstone Restaurant Group establishments in Dallas, Texas, said that as locations reopened, they were told to take off their masks.
  
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• US Space Force debuts first recruitment ad and previously secret spacecraft

  06-05-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.”That is the tagline accompanying the US Space Force‘s recruiting ad that appeared on Twitter on Wednesday.
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Rising Sino-US tensions not helpful, says EU ambassador to China

  06-05-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Revealed: Boris Johnson's roadmap to ease lockdown Exclusive: Gowns brought back from Turkey impounded after failing safety tests Five charts that explain the UK's horrifying death toll Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for seven days Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: Join us in helping those hit hardest Rising tensions between China and the United States are problematic for all sides and not conducive for the broad multinational cooperation needed to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the European
  
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• Venezuela: captured US mercenary claims he planned to abduct Maduro

  06-05-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Luke Denman was one of two US citizens seized this week after what appears to have been a bungled bid to overthrow MaduroAn American mercenary captured after a bungled attempt to topple Nicolás Maduro has claimed he was on a mission to seize control of Venezuela’s main airport in order to abduct its leader – and he alleged that was acting under the command of Donald Trump.Luke Denman was one of two US citizens seized by Venezuelan security forces this week after what appears t
  
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• Obama Says GOP's Biden Inquiry Promotes 'Russian Disinformation'

  06-05-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON -- Former President Barack Obama's office called Senate Republicans' investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden's son's activities in Ukraine an effort "to give credence to a Russian disinformation campaign" in a letter Obama's office sent to the National Archives.The letter represents Obama's strongest reaction to date to Republican efforts to investigate unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine and not Russia interfered to help President Donald Trump win the 2016 election.The let
  
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• Trump's advisers released a 'beyond stupid' mathematical model of coronavirus deaths created in Excel by a controversial economist

  06-05-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A slew of economists and public health experts have repudiated Kevin Hassett's model and some argued he bent the data to fit the outcome he desired.
  
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• Trump's advisers released a 'beyond stupid' mathematical model of coronavirus deaths by a controversial economist

  06-05-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A slew of economists and public health experts have repudiated Kevin Hassett's model and some argued he bent the data to fit the outcome he desired.
  
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• Texas AG, Governor Urge Judge to Reverse ‘Shameful’ Prison Sentence Given to Woman for Opening Hair Salon

  06-05-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Texas attorney general on Wednesday harshly criticized a decision by a Dallas County judge to sentence a woman to prison for opening up her hair salon in defiance of the state's lockdown order.In a statement, Attorney General Ken Paxton said Shelley Luther was "unjustly jailed" for trying to feed her family and sent a letter to Dallas County State District Judge Eric Moyé calling on him to release her."I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a ju
  
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• Pandemic-fueled surge in gun sales overwhelms FBI background check system; dealers urged to wait on sales

  06-05-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gun dealers are urged to wait on the FBI as firearm buyers flood the background check system during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• 'Anti-maskers' say they should not be forced to cover their faces in public because medical conditions mean they cannot wear a mask

  06-05-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some people are claiming medical conditions "exempt" them from mask wearing. Doctors say there are ways to wear masks more comfortably and safely.
  
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