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• Union opposes reopening U.S. meat plants as more workers die

  08-05-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The largest union representing U.S. meatpacking workers said on Friday it opposed the reopening of plants as the Trump administration had failed to guarantee workers' safety.At least 30 meatpacking workers have died of the novel coronavirus and more than 10,000 have contracted it, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), which represents more than 250,000 meatpacking and food processing workers, said in a statement.The pandemic caused at least 30 meatpacking plants to t
  
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• Pence press secretary tests positive for coronavirus

  08-05-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The news comes shortly after a valet who served meals to President Trump also tested positive for the virus.
  
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• U.S. denies acting against Venezuela's Maduro, says would have been "overt"

  08-05-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House National Security Council on Friday denied the United States was involved in a bungled incursion into Venezuela this week, allegedly to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, adding if it had been, it would have been "overt, direct & effective."The NSC issued a statement via Twitter after Maduro said that Venezuelan authorities had detained a pair of U.S. citizens working with a U.S. military veteran who has claimed responsibility for the foiled operation.President Donald Trump
  
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• As Trump returns to the road, some Democrats want to bust Biden out of his basement

  08-05-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While President Donald Trump traveled to the battleground state of Arizona this week, his Democratic opponent for the White House, Joe Biden, campaigned from his basement as he has done throughout the coronavirus pandemic.The freeze on in-person campaigning during the outbreak has had an upside for Biden, giving the former vice president more time to court donors and shielding him from on-the-trail gaffes."I personally would like to see him out more because he's in his element when he's meeting
  
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• Trump says 'no rush' on more aid as jobless crisis grows

  08-05-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump says he’s in “no rush” to negotiate another financial rescue bill, even as the government reported that more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs last month due to economic upheaval caused by the coronavirus.The president’s low-key approach came Friday as the Labor Department reported the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression and as Democrats prepared to unveil what Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer calls a “Roosevelti
  
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• Rapper Tekashi69 smashes Instagram live record with post-prison boast

  08-05-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fresh out of prison and in home confinement, rapper Tekashi69 destroyed the Instagram live viewership record, as two million users watched him sound off, diss the haters and promote a new song.It was a birthday party rant of sorts for the braggadocious star who turned 24 Friday, weeks after his early release from prison due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus.Tekashi was sentenced in December to two years in prison on racketeering, firearms and drug trafficking charges.
  
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• UK to place all incoming travellers under 14-day quarantine: The Times

  08-05-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Passengers arriving at airports and ports including Britons returning from abroad, will have to self-isolate for 14 days," the newspaper said, adding that travellers will have to provide the address sat which they will self-isolate on arrival.Travellers from Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man will be exempt, as will lorry drivers bringing crucial supplies, the report added.According to The Times, travellers will have to fill in a digital form with details of where they plan to sel
  
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• Bay Area baby makes history as next Gerber Baby

  08-05-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Winning Photo Search is an opportunity to tell Magnolia's story and shed light on all the beautiful and different ways families are made."
  
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• Joe Biden's sexual assault allegation puts Senate candidate Amy McGrath in a tough spot

  08-05-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McGrath said sexual assault should be called out no matter if alleged against a Republican or a Democrat, but the candidate is reticent about Biden.
  
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• Brazil's Amazon: Surge in deforestation as military prepares to deploy

  08-05-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The military is preparing to deploy to the region to try to stop illegal logging and mining.
  
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• US blocks vote on UN's bid for global ceasefire over reference to WHO

  08-05-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Security council had spent weeks seeking resolution but Trump administration opposed mention of organizationThe US has blocked a vote on a UN security council resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic, because the Trump administration objected to an indirect reference to the World Health Organization.The security council has been wrangling for more than six weeks over the resolution, which was intended to demonstrate global support for the call for a ceasefire by the
  
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• The McMichaels can't be charged with a hate crime by the state in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery because the law doesn't exist in Georgia

  08-05-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Georgia is one of four states that doesn't have a hate crime law. Arbery's killing has reignited calls for legislation.
  
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• Trump: 'No rush' for relief bill despite dire jobless numbers

  08-05-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump said Friday he was in "no rush" to strike a deal with Democrats over emergency relief for suffering Americans even as the raging coronavirus pandemic causes staggering job losses.Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said they are crafting what could become another trillion-dollar-plus rescue package potentially including funding for state and local governments, paycheck protections and rent or mortgage assistance.Pelosi signalled that her "bold CARES 2 package" c
  
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• 3 nurses strangled in Mexico; border mayor gets coronavirus

  08-05-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three sisters who worked in Mexico's government hospital system were found murdered by strangling, authorities in the northern border state of Coahuila announced Friday, stirring new alarm in a country where attacks on health care workers have occurred across the nation amid the coronavirus outbreak.Two of the sisters were nurses for the Mexican Social Security Institute and the third was a hospital administrator, but there was no immediate evidence the attack was related to their work.The Natio
  
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• Surviving COVID-19 Could Disqualify You From Military Service

  08-05-2020 22:58 via popularmechanics.com
  
  A ban could disqualify thousands from serving in the U.S. military.
  
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• As world shelters, scientists raise alarm on another threat: An active hurricane season

  08-05-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The season officially begins June 1, but some meteorologists who have been tracking ocean and atmospheric dynamics over the past few months say conditions are ripe for storms.
  
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• Mark Cuban: Businesses can open up but if we don't spend money they'll close right back down

  08-05-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Entrepreneur Mark Cuban on the economy losing 20.5 million jobs in April, unprecedented unemployment rate.
  
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• These surprisingly relevant vintage ads show how officials tried to convince people to wear masks after many refused during the 1918 flu pandemic

  08-05-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials needed to convince men specifically to practice better personal hygiene because men didn't think masks were masculine enough.
  
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• Woman heartbroken by Smithfield Foods' response to grandfather's death from coronavirus

  08-05-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I want you to know he died in the hospital alone, isolated, and scared,” she wrote in an Instagram message to Smithfield Foods.
  
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• Federal watchdog finds 'reasonable grounds to believe' vaccine doctor's ouster was retaliation, lawyers say

  08-05-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Office of Special Counsel is recommending that ousted vaccine official Dr. Rick Bright be reinstated while it investigates his case, his lawyers announced Friday.Bright while leading coronavirus vaccine development was recently removed from his position as the director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, and he alleges it was because he insisted congressional funding not go toward "drugs, vaccines, and other technologies tha
  
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• White House: US planning to ship 8,000 ventilators abroad

  08-05-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump, who’s taken to calling the U.S. the “king” of ventilators, is making plans to ship 8,000 of the breathing machines to foreign countries by the end of July to help in their fight against the coronavirus.Now, the U.S. has a surplus and the president is sharing them with other countries — a goodwill gesture that also helps him offset criticism about his own early response to the pandemic.The White House did not respond to a request for specifics about
  
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• U.S. watchdog agency says coronavirus whistleblower should be reinstated

  08-05-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. government watchdog agency has recommended the temporary reinstatement of a whistleblower who says he was removed as director of a government research office because he raised concerns about coronavirus preparedness, his lawyers said on Friday.The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) made a "threshold determination" that the Trump administration unlawfully sidelined disease expert Rick Bright because he "made protected disclosures in the best interest of the American public," Bright's law
  
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• US prevents UN Council vote on pandemic truce: diplomats

  08-05-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Friday prevented a vote in the UN Security Council on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in various countries around the world so they can better fight the coronavirus pandemic, diplomats said."The United States cannot support the current draft," the country's delegation told the 14 other stunned members of the Security Council.When asked for an explanation of the US move, a State Department official told AFP that China had "repeatedly blocked compromises that would have a
  
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• Gavin Newsom Signs Executive Order to Mail Every Voter a Ballot for November Elections

  08-05-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he had signed an executive order to mail ballots to the state’s 20.6 million registered voters, citing potential health risks due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.“There’s a lot of excitement around this November’s election in terms of making sure that you can conduct yourself in a safe way, and make sure your health is protected,” Newsom said Friday. In March, the state allowed ballots to be mailed in for it
  
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• US accuses China, Russia of coordinating on virus conspiracies

  08-05-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Friday accused China and Russia of stepping up cooperation to spread false narratives over the coronavirus pandemic, saying Beijing was increasingly adopting techniques honed by Moscow."Even before the COVID-19 crisis we assessed a certain level of coordination between Russia and the PRC in the realm of propaganda," said Lea Gabrielle, coordinator of the State Department's Global Engagement Center, which tracks foreign propaganda.The Global Engagement Center earlier said tho
  
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• Trump news: Second White House staffer tests positive for coronavirus as president claims Joe Biden and Barack Obama tried to undo his election win

  08-05-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While the president has met with governors to signal that America is ready to "reopen" amid the coronavirus pandemic, moving faster than public health officials have warned, he has instead found that the virus has reached the White House, while the number of infections in states that have eased quarantine measures continues to climb, against the president's own guidance.On Friday, Donald Trump revealed that a second White House staffer, the press secretary for vice president Mike Pence, has test
  
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• First child death from mysterious COVID-19-related illness is reported in the U.S

  08-05-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 100 children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with the newly identified syndrome associated with COVID-19.
  
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• 'Every parent's nightmare': New York is investigating the death of a 5-year-old child from an illness linked to the coronavirus

  08-05-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Caution to all people who again may have believed that their child couldn't be affected by COVID," Cuomo said.
  
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• 'Never give up, never despair': Queen praises Britons on VE Day

  08-05-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth honoured those who died in World War Two on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, and used the occasion to say she was proud of how people had responded to the coronavirus pandemic.In a televised message, the 94-year-old monarch said those who had served during the conflict with Nazi Germany in the 1940s would admire how their descendants were coping with COVID-19 and the lockdown imposed to curb its spread."Today it may seem hard that we cannot mark th
  
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• Vaccine orders plummet amid coronavirus outbreak: CDC

  08-05-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington (AFP) - Orders for vaccines against diseases such as measles have declined since a national emergency was declared in the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
  
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• Trump says coronavirus will 'go away without a vaccine'

  08-05-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump on Friday broke with health experts, telling reporters that the coronavirus will “go away without a vaccine.”
  
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• Office of Special Counsel Blocks Removal of HHS Whistleblower to Investigate Claim of ‘Political Retaliation’

  08-05-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal agency the Office of Special Counsel on Friday stayed the removal of a whistleblower who alleged he was fired over resistance to promote hydroxychloroquine in the effort to contain the coronavirus pandemic.The Office of Special Counsel said there were "reasonable grounds" to believe Dr. Rick Bright, head of the biomedical research arm (BARDA) of the Department of Health and Human Services, was ousted on political grounds.Bright's lawyers said the Office "advised that in light of this det
  
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• Pence aide’s positive coronavirus test is second this week for White House as Trump tries to project normalcy

  08-05-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The second positive coronavirus case from the White House this week comes just as the administration has sought to project a return to normalcy.
  
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• Without any evidence, Trump says coronavirus will go away without a vaccine

  08-05-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Speaking to the press on Friday, President Trump said the coronavirus will go away without a vaccine. He said he listens to what doctors say, but did not provide any evidence from doctors to support that claim.
  
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• Trump says he couldn't have exposed WWII vets to COVID-19 because the wind was blowing the wrong way

  08-05-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump commemorated the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday with eight World War II veterans, the youngest of whom was 96 and the oldest of whom was 100, CBS News reports. The president, however, did not wear a mask around the veterans despite the CDC's warning that anyone over the age of 65 is at a higher risk for severe illness if they catch COVID-19.Trump, notably, could have been exposed to the virus by one of his personal valets, who tested positive for COVID-19 this week and pote
  
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• Panicked over 'murder hornets,' people are killing native bees we desperately need

  08-05-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Asian giant hornets (a.k.a. murder hornets) have been spotted only in Washington state and Canada. Traps elsewhere are killing beneficial native wasps and bees.
  
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• Pence staffer who tested positive for coronavirus is Stephen Miller's wife

  08-05-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The staffer of Vice President Mike Pence who tested positive for coronavirus is apparently his press secretary and the wife of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller.Reports emerged on Friday that a member of Pence's staff had tested positive for COVID-19, creating a delay in his flight to Iowa amid concern over who may have been exposed. Later in the day, Trump said the staffer is a "press person" named Katie.Politico reported he was referring to Katie Miller, Pence's press secretary and the
  
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• Bomb kills six soldiers in SW Pakistan

  08-05-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An improvised explosive device hit a Pakistani security forces vehicle in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan on Friday, killing six soldiers and wounding one other, the army said.The incident took place in the treacherous highlands of Kech district, some 14 kilometres (eight miles) from the Pakistan-Iran border, where soldiers from the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) were on a routine patrol.
  
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• Hidden Toll: Mexico Ignores Wave of Coronavirus Deaths in Capital

  08-05-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government is not reporting hundreds, possibly thousands, of deaths from the coronavirus in Mexico City, dismissing anxious officials who have tallied more than three times as many fatalities in the capital than the government publicly acknowledges, according to officials and confidential data reviewed by The New York Times.The tensions have come to a head in recent weeks, with Mexico City alerting the government to the deaths repeatedly, hoping it will come clean to t
  
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• Why this Minnesota voter feels the same way he did when Hillary beat Bernie in 2016

  08-05-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Polarized is a weekly series featuring Americans from all 50 states sharing their views on the 2020 elections. Click here if you would like to be a part of this projectLike countless other couple across the country, Bryce LeBrun and his fiancé were forced to cancel their upcoming wedding.
  
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• Donald Trump says US would send an army, not two mercenaries, to overthrow Venezuela's Maduro

  08-05-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has denied the US was behind a failed coup attempt in Venezuela, saying he would send an entire army if he wanted to invade the country.Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro says the president is the “direct chief” of the invasion, and aired an American ex-special forces soldier on state television apparently confessing to the plot.
  
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• Democrats’ Desperation about Tara Reade Is Growing. So Is Their Hypocrisy.

  08-05-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There aren’t a ton of synonyms for the word “hypocrisy.” I’ve become aware of this problem ever since I began writing about the Tara Reade–Joe Biden situation. I keep gravitating towards phrases such as “despicable hypocrisy,” or “partisan hypocrisy,” or “unconscionable hypocrisy,” but you can only go to the well so often. Really, though, I’m not sure how else to describe the actions of someone like Senator Dianne Feinstein.
  
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• Democrats hope to flip Arizona, as GOP shores up defenses

  08-05-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Of the candidates seeking to upset a Republican incumbent this cycle, Senate candidate Mark Kelly has outraised every other Senate hopeful in the country.
  
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• Father relentlessly fights for deceased son’s legacy after receiving son’s federal stimulus payment

  08-05-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Marshall Adler tragically lost his son, Matthew, on July 22, 2018, and on May 2, 2020, he received a $1,200 federal stimulus payment for his deceased son. A look at where Adler wants his son’s money to go and why.
  
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• ‘Not a Bonafide Counterintelligence Investigation’: Barr Slams Comey’s Handling of Flynn Probe

  08-05-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorney General Bill Barr explained that the FBI did not conduct “a bonafide counterintelligence investigation” in the case that led former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn to plead guilty to federal investigators in 2017.Barr, speaking in an exclusive interview with CBS News after the Justice Department dropped its case against Flynn on Thursday, said that his review of the case found Bureau investigators laid “a perjury trap” for Flynn in a January 2017 Wh
  
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• A photographer spent two weeks flying around in helicopters to capture the parked planes at US airports during the pandemic — see his eerie and beautiful work

  08-05-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Travel blogger and photographer Andy Luten drove 4,200 miles across six states to see the grounded jets, detailing the shocking state of aviation.
  
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• Job market meltdown hits most vulnerable workers hardest

  08-05-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus rampaged across the U.S. economy, it slashed a cruel path of job losses, reduced hours and hardships for America's most vulnerable workers.The 20.5 million jobs lost in April fell disproportionately on African Americans, Latinos, low-wage workers and people with no college education.
  
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• Macron's lawmakers told to pull together amid reports of new group

  08-05-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The parliamentary leader of French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party demanded the "utmost prudence" from his lawmakers on Friday after reports that some were poised to defect to a new political group, according to an internal memo.Gilles Le Gendre, a close Macron ally, sent the memo seen by Reuters to La Republique En Marche (LaRem) lawmakers after the business daily Les Echos reported that the creation of a new 58-strong centre-left grouping was imminent.
  
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• Indiana shootings strain relationship between police, blacks

  08-05-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Indianapolis police Chief Randal Taylor solemnly promised thoroughness and transparency as his department investigates the fatal shootings of two black men in the city by officers.Taylor, an African American and longtime member of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, also made a plea to the community as he faced the first major crisis since becoming chief less than five months ago: Give his office time and he’ll address any mistakes made, but jumping to conclusions won’t
  
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• Chaffetz: I don't understand why Adam Schiff continues to have a security clearance

  08-05-2020 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz and Andy McCarthy react to House Intelligence transcripts on Russia probe.
  
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