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• Mother gives birth outside of hospital, father uses face mask to tie umbilical cord

  15-05-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I was glad I didn't have my head turned," David Patrick said about the birth of his son, Navi. "This came on extremely unexpectedly."
  
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• Joe Biden makes more mistakes during virtual town hall, pushes back on sexual assault allegation

  15-05-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden struggles as gaffes continue to pile up; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Discord adds new Server Video feature on web, desktop, and iOS

  15-05-2020 23:52
  
  Discord has rolled out a new Server Video feature that makes it easier for friends to stay connected despite the pandemic. With Server Video, Discord says that users can participate in what is essentially a drop-in, drop-out conversation, eliminating the hassle of starting a private video chat with someone. Users can, among other things, Go Live and Video Chat simultaneously. … Continue reading
  
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• This Llama Shaped Pepper Spray Is The Cutest Self Defense Device You’ll Ever See

  15-05-2020 23:44 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
  Llama Shaped Pepper Spray – We’re going out tonight? Cool, alpaca my pepper spray!DID YOU KNOW THAT LLAMAS SPIT AS A DEFENSE MECHANISM?
  Just like a real llama, Pepperem’s llama-shaped pepper spray spits to protect! When feeling threatened, press down on the red tab in the back to open the llama’s mouth and deploy the pepper spray.
    
  This cute llama-shaped pepper spray that SPITS to PROTECT! Like a real llama, when the red tab is pressed down, this “llama
  
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• Billionaire Bloomberg considers massive spend in support of Biden: CNBC

  15-05-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Billionaire and former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is considering a major spending blitz to back Joe Biden’s White House bid, CNBC reported on Friday. The former New York mayor is committed to funding the candidate but is unsure whether the money will go to pro-Biden Super PACS, Biden's joint fundraising effort with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) or another independent group, the network reported, citing people familiar with the conversations. Former Vice President Biden
  
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• Senators pressure FCC to reconsider approval of Ligado 5G - CNET

  15-05-2020 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A bipartisan group of 32 lawmakers sends a letter citing Pentagon concerns about GPS interference.
  
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• Tropical weather system developing near Florida

  15-05-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If it develops sustained winds of 39 mph or higher, the storm will be named Arthur.
  
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• Biden campaign sees clear path to '318 electoral votes'

  15-05-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign is convinced it can turn some solidly red states blue.Biden's team revealed its electoral strategy to reporters on Friday, saying the campaign is convinced it can win 318 of the 538 electoral votes up for grabs this fall. A big chunk of those votes will come from reclaiming typically blue states Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, as well as homing in on the traditionally red states of Arizona, Georgia, and Texas.Biden needs 270 electoral votes to beat Trump
  
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• Advocates decry ICE efforts to deport migrant kids amid pandemic

  15-05-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ICE was prepared to deport a teenage girl to Guatemala alone, despite pleas from advocates. The only reason it couldn't was because the flight was postponed over coronavirus.
  
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• Oprah joins Facebook commencement, urges 2020 graduates to 'create more equity, justice' - CNET

  15-05-2020 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina and Miley Cyrus also make appearances.
  
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• Trump announces 'Operation Warp Speed,' says U.S. could have coronavirus vaccine by January

  15-05-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump Friday announced Operation Warp Speed, a government coordinating effort aimed at securing a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year.
  
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• GOP groups seize on Tara Reade allegations to attack Democrats

  15-05-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Through press releases and social media posts, conservative groups have launched a flurry of attacks targeting candidates in competitive races.
  
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• DOOM Eternal’s latest update has some PC players furious

  15-05-2020 23:05
  
  Bethesda and id Software have pushed update 1 out to DOOM Eternal, adding new features like empowered demons, echelon leveling, and a new Precious Metals event. In fact, between these new features, a slew of balance changes, and a bunch of fixes, this update adds a lot. Unfortunately, there are many players who are upset by one of the features … Continue reading
  
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• Burr submits final Russia report before leaving chairmanship

  15-05-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr on Friday submitted the final report in the panel's three-year Russia investigation to the intelligence community for a declassification review.The report on the panel’s counterintelligence findings – including whether President Donald Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia — marks the conclusion of its Russia probe, which it first launched in January 2017.
  
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• Alcoholism drug linked to ‘dramatic’ weight loss in obesity study

  15-05-2020 23:02
  
  A new study has linked an old school drug used to treat alcoholism with rapid weight loss and protective effects in obese mice, hinting at a potential new treatment for obesity. The research comes from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging, which found that mice given the medication disulfiram lost weight much faster than mice that only … Continue reading
  
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• Points of Progress: Portugal plans for a green future, and more

  15-05-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In good news this week: A new hydrogen plant is one of many green-energy initiatives that Portugal is working on – plus more positive headlines.
  
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• California officials reject subsidies for Musk's SpaceX over Tesla spat

  15-05-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The snub comes as Musk has sparred with officials in Alameda County over his plans to resume production at the Tesla plant there, which was stopped because of the coronavirus.Five members of California's Employment Training Panel voted to reject the proposal and two voted for it, with one member absent, after discussing Musk's tweets on Tesla's reopening and media reports of layoffs at SpaceX's Hawthorne, California headquarters in recent years.
  
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• Cleanup in the VPN aisle: Lock in IPVanish for $45 per year for life - CNET

  15-05-2020 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Save 69% and get 250GB of SugarSync with this novice-friendly VPN, and the price doesn't go up when the promotional period is over.
  
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• US cuts off semiconductor shipments to Huawei, China vows to retaliate

  15-05-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US threw a one-two punch at China’s rising tech power by blocking global chip supplies to telecom firm Huawei while helping a Taiwanese semiconductor producer open a next-generation plant in Arizona.China responded to the US’s escalation by threatening a series of countermeasures through its state-run news agency, including putting US companies like Apple, Qualcomm and Cisco on an “unreliable entity list”.
  
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• Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx wear masks, Trump doesn't in address on coronavirus vaccines

  15-05-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump did not wear a mask during a press conference on the plan for a coronavirus vaccine. Birx and Fauci did.
  
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• Justice Department reportedly set to bring antitrust suit against Google - CNET

  15-05-2020 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The suit could focus on advertising and search dominance, a report says.
  
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• Tesla picks Austin, Tulsa as finalists for new US factory

  15-05-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tesla has picked Austin, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as finalists for its new U.S. assembly plant, a person briefed on the matter said Friday.The person says company officials visited Tulsa in the past week and were shown two sites.It wasn’t clear if there were any other finalists in the mix.
  
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• Coronavirus: Brazil's Bolsonaro sees second health minister quit

  15-05-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nelson Teich resigned after disagreements with President Jair Bolsonaro, who opposes lockdown measures.
  
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• The Volkswagen Golf is dull but satisfying - CNET

  15-05-2020 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This hatchback does little to quicken one's pulse, but it's sensible six ways to Sunday and that's what really counts.
  
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• The 2020 Mazda3 is a piece of art - CNET

  15-05-2020 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This small car, which is available as a sedan or hatchback, is beautifully designed both inside and out.
  
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• Military spaceplane and Starlink satellites to launch this weekend

  15-05-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Back-to-back launches Saturday and Sunday mark the fastest pace for orbit-class U.S. rockets in decades
  
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• Americans calling for herd immunity should look at Sweden's coronavirus experiment to see why it won't work

  15-05-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Health officials have called the concept of herd immunity dangerous and said it could take years to reach without a vaccine.
  
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• Security video raises questions in Arbery shooting

  15-05-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Security camera footage taken in December outside a home being built in coastal Georgia raises new questions about what Ahmaud Arbery was doing at the site two months later, right before he was fatally shot in the neighborhood.
  
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• Trump says US will beat out Russia and China with 'super duper missile'

  15-05-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Development of missile comes as US president’s rhetoric has fueled fears of a new nuclear arms raceUnveiling the flag for his new space force in the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump said the US was developing a “super duper missile” to outpace military rivals including Russia and China.“We have no choice, we have to do it with the adversaries we have out there. We have, I call it the super duper missile and I heard the other night [it’s] 17 times faster than what
  
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• Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Pramila Jayapal says Democrats' coronavirus relief bill 'fails to match the scale of this crisis'

  15-05-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats are looking to pass their $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill later today, but Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) isn't on board.Jayapal, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has announced she'll vote no on the $3 trillion HEROES Act, saying that while it has some "good elements," it "fails to match the scale of this crisis."Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus had been pushing for Democrats' relief bill to include a "Paycheck Guarantee" program extending
  
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• Rock band Devo selling energy dome face shields for coronavirus protection - CNET

  15-05-2020 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When a pandemic comes along, you must whip it.
  
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• Postmates adds Curbside Pickup feature for restaurants and stores

  15-05-2020 22:12
  
  Delivery service Postmates has announced a new Curbside Pickup feature that enables sellers to offer goods for pickup curbside, a common method employed by many companies while their dining rooms remain closed to customers. As expected, the new curbside feature means the individual picking up the order doesn’t need to enter the building — rather, they’ll be met outside by … Continue reading
  
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• Lawyers for suspect in Arbery shooting say facts point to "different narrative"

  15-05-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Those facts will be revealed where all facts that matter are revealed: in a courtroom," said an attorney for Gregory McMichael.
  
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• 'She's Starting to Lose Hope.' Two Years On, Sister of Jailed Saudi Women's Rights Activist Pleads for Justice

  15-05-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lina al-Hathloul said in an interview with TIME there hasn't been an adequate investigation into her sister Loujain's alleged torture in prison.
  
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• Trump wants negative rates — but what would that mean for your wallet?

  15-05-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Previously seen as a sort of theoretical thought experiment and a line that should never be crossed, some countries have experimented with setting negative interest rates.
  
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• Trump brags about 'super duper missile'

  15-05-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump bragged Friday that America is "building, right now, incredible military equipment," with the commander-in-chief adding that "we have, I call it, the 'super duper missile.'"What makes it so super duper? "I heard the other night, [it is] 17 times faster than what they have right now, when you take the fastest missile we have right now," Trump went on. "You've heard Russia has five times and China's working on five or six times. We have one 17 times, and it's just gotten the go-ahe
  
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• Best dog food delivery services for 2020: Pet Plate, Ollie, Chewy and more compared - CNET

  15-05-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These convenient dog food delivery services will save you a trip to the store.
  
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• Indefinite detention or family separation? US forced immigrants to choose, lawyers say

  15-05-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Immigration officials were confusing and intimidating in seeking parents’ signatures, according to advocatesUS officials gave dozens of detained immigrant parents an ultimatum – allow your children to be released from detention without you or face indefinite detention together, according to legal representatives from the country’s three family detention centers.In one chaotic day on Thursday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) instituted what legal representatives for
  
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• Gilead to end coronavirus drug trials, adding to access worry: researchers

  15-05-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The drug was given emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on May 1, but hospitals are concerned about access. "We would like to see equitable and transparent distribution of this very precious resource," Dr. Helen Boucher, chief of infectious diseases at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, told Reuters. Gilead's studies - one in patients with severe COVID-19 and the other in moderate disease - have enrolled around 8,000 subjects, according to FDA statistics.
  
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• Burr asks that final volume of Senate Intel report on Trump and Russia be declassified

  15-05-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The last part of the Senate Intel Committee's bipartisan report on Russian election interference is a 1,000-page volume on "counterintelligence findings."
  
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• Best Nintendo Switch controllers for 2020 - CNET

  15-05-2020 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Save some cash while upping your stats with these Nintendo Switch gamepads.
  
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• Is this shiny Pokemon GO Pikachu more disturbing than Cubone?

  15-05-2020 21:53
  
  Today you’ll find a very strange Pikachu in the game Pokemon GO. This Pikachu has a special hat, like so many special limited edition Pikachu released before. But this Pikachu is different. This Pikachu is wearing a hat that looks, for all the world, like the ripped-off top skin of the head of a Rayquaza. Or it might just be … Continue reading
  
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• Awful data show US economy is in deep trouble

  15-05-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Newly released economic data showed the US economy is in a terrible state and may not rebound quickly even when the devastating lockdowns imposed to stop the coronavirus pandemic are lifted.Data tracking industrial production and the vital retail sector released Friday showed record declines in April, the first full month of lockdowns to stop the spread of COVID-19 virus that has killed nearly 86,000 people and caused around 36.5 million people to lose their jobs in the world's largest economy.W
  
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• Nissan Kicks revealed in Asia with far better looks - CNET

  15-05-2020 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Thailand, the Kicks will also get Nissan's e-power powertrain.
  
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• ‘Manipulative, deceitful, user’: Tara Reade left a trail of aggrieved acquaintances

  15-05-2020 21:43 via politico.com
  
  A number of those who crossed paths with Biden’s accuser say they remember two things: She spoke favorably about her time working for Biden, and she left them feeling duped.
  
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• Photos taken 1 year apart show potentially troubling sign in volcano

  15-05-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Halema‘uma‘u crater on Kilauea, located in Hawaii, has been relatively quiet over the last year after a frenzy of activity in 2018, which all began with an explosive eruption of ash 30,000 feet into the air during May. But, since at least 2019, there has been a change that scientists believe could pose a potential danger to the Big Island. Water has started to collect in the caldera to form a lake.A caldera is a large crater left behind in a volcano after an eruption. From 2010 u
  
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• Excited about Xbox Series X and Halo Infinite? We have some good news

  15-05-2020 21:25
  
  Heading into the next generation of consoles, the most important thing to a lot of prospective buyers are games. We’ve already seen some of the third-party games that will be releasing for the Xbox Series X early-on, but generally speaking, first-party support is just as important to a lot of gamers out there. While Sony has been keeping its mouth … Continue reading
  
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• Who's Enforcing Mask Rules? Often Retail Workers, and They're Getting Hurt

  15-05-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The exchange was tense between the customer and Jesse, a Trader Joe's employee sporting a white face mask and a flowery Hawaiian shirt."Why aren't you wearing the mask?" Jesse asked the customer on a recent day at a store in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. "I am not here to question what you believe in. These are the rules. I am just asking you kindly to wear the mask."The customer, Genevieve Powers, who was recording the entire exchange, refused. "We are in America here," she said, "land of th
  
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• Video game sales spike as we shelter in place - CNET

  15-05-2020 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While staying home throughout the first part of the year, people bought a record number of video games, according to new data.
  
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• Trump sets goal of coronavirus vaccine by year's end, but 'vaccine or no vaccine, we're back'

  15-05-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump said the project would be “big” and “fast,” comparing it to the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
  
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