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• Canadian Air Force jet celebrating coronavirus workers crashes into home

  17-05-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The flight was part of “Operation Inspiration,” a nationwide mission aimed at saluting first responders and other essential workers.
  
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• How Many COVID-19 Deaths Are There?

  17-05-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Deborah Birx, the physician advising the White House’s coronavirus task force, gave voice to a real concern earlier this month. She told officials from the Centers for Disease Control that some of its numbers on mortality and case count could be inflated by up to 25 percent. “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” the Washington Post reported Birx saying.We now know more about what she was talking about, since Colorado has become the first state to publish two differe
  
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• Best TVs for gaming in 2020: Low input lag and high picture quality - CNET

  17-05-2020 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Any delay between your controller and the game can kill you. These are the TVs that minimize it.
  
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• US Sen. Sasse criticized for jokes in graduation speech

  17-05-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse's attempt at humor during a speech at a Nebraska high school's online commencement — which included jokes about students' fitness and psychologists and also blamed China for the coronavirus outbreak — drew strong criticism.The Republican senator's speech on Saturday was panned by a Fremont High School board member and his Democratic opponent in the November election.Sasse's spokesman, James Wegmann, told the Omaha World-Herald Sunday the senator was joking during
  
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• Fed chairman Powell warns downturn 'may last until late 2021'

  17-05-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said a full rebound may not be possible until a vaccine is made.
  
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• CDC 'let the country down' on coronavirus testing: White House

  17-05-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House rebuked the top US health agency on Sunday, saying "it let the country down" on providing testing crucial to the battle against the coronavirus outbreak.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been under intense scrutiny since producing a faulty test for COVID-19 that caused weeks of delays in the US response.Critics have pointed out that it could simply have accepted kits made by the World Health Organization, which has been producing them since late January, instead
  
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• Need a pulse oximeter? These models are in stock starting at $24 - CNET

  17-05-2020 22:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Don't pay jacked-up prices to measure your heart rate and blood oxygen saturation.
  
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• Former FDA official says a widely available coronavirus vaccine is 'more likely a 2021 event'

  17-05-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A vaccine could be ready in the fall of 2020 to perhaps "ring fence an outbreak," Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said.
  
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• Mexico cites virus in slapping down renewable energy

  17-05-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Mexican government has cited the coronavirus pandemic as a justification for new rules that will reduce the role of renewable energies like solar and wind power, granting a reprieve to the government's own ageing, fossil-fuel power plants. The decree over the weekend has sparked outrage among Mexican and foreign investors who had been allowed to sell their power into the government-operated grid. Industry associations said it will affect 28 solar and wind projects that were ready to go onlin
  
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• Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches

  17-05-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Atlas V rocket, carrying the X-37B space plane, launched from Cape Canaveral on Sunday.
  
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• Pompeo warns China over interference with U.S. journalists in Hong Kong

  17-05-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said it had come to his attention that the Chinese government had threatened to interfere with the work of U.S. journalists in Hong Kong, and said any decision impinging on Hong Kong's autonomy could affect the U.S. assessment of Hong Kong's status."These journalists are members of a free press, not propaganda cadres, and their valuable reporting informs Chinese citizens and the world," Pompeo said in a statement.Britain returned Hong Kong to China i
  
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• Cuomo says nobody should be prosecuted for COVID-19 deaths in N.Y.

  17-05-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of deaths in New York state dropped again on Saturday to 139 people as parts of the state have begun to reopen.
  
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• Boy Scouts and other groups banned from planting American flags on veterans' graves due to coronavirus

  17-05-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone joins ‘America’s News HQ.’
  
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• 'A threat to accountable democracy': Some Republicans object to Trump dismissal of federal watchdog

  17-05-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The President has not provided the kind of justification for the removal of IG Linick required by this law," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
  
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• Bernie Sanders supporters reluctantly turn to Joe Biden, fueled by their dislike of President Trump

  17-05-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In 2016, 12% of Bernie Sanders supporters backed Donald Trump in the general election. Polls and interviews suggest that number will shrink in 2020.
  
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• Iran's Khamenei says US will be expelled from Iraq, Syria

  17-05-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that the United States will be expelled from Iraq and Syria and alleged that even Washington's allies "abhor" it now.The US "will not be staying either in Iraq or Syria and must withdraw and will certainly be expelled", said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to his official website.Both the US and Iran have weighed into Syria's conflict -- Tehran backing the Damascus regime, while Washington supported the Kurds against the Islamic State group -- and both have be
  
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• Priest draws squirt gun in fight against coronavirus

  17-05-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Roman Catholic priest in the Detroit area has taken aim at his parishioners in a bid to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, using a squirt gun to shoot holy water.Photos posted on social media by the St. Ambrose Churchshow the Rev. Tim Pelc shooting water into a car window as it stopped by the steps of the church on Easter.
  
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• Cousin of Syria's Assad faces legal action over telecom debt

  17-05-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syria’s telecommunications authority on Sunday said a deadline for a cellular company owned by the cousin of President Bashar Assad to pay back its debts to the state has ended, adding that legal measures will be taken against the company to recover the money.The announcement came hours after Assad’s cousin, Rami Makhlouf, released a new video in which the businessman said he was asked to step down from the leadership of Syriatel, the biggest telecommunication company in the country.
  
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• Government to make major revisions to PPP to give small businesses more flexibility

  17-05-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gene Marks, CPA at The Marks Group, joins ‘America’s News HQ.’
  
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• White House officials clash on whether the CDC 'let the country down' on testing, signaling continued tensions between the agency and Trump administration

  17-05-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The comments are the latest indication that the relationship between the White House and the CDC has soured.
  
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• New York might have avoided becoming the US epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak if Gov. Cuomo hadn't reportedly dismissed shelter-at-home advice

  17-05-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Cuomo reportedly said 'shelter in place' sounded 'like it was in response to a nuclear apocalypse,' and he had no plan of locking down cities.
  
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• The Trump administration has recently moved to oust 4 government watchdogs. Here they are:

  17-05-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  State Department Inspector General Steve Linick joins ousted Intelligence IG Michael Atkinson and Defense IG Glenn Fine. Trump's also nominated a new HHS IG.
  
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• Up to 100,000 cruise workers stranded at sea amid pandemic, report claims

  17-05-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An estimated 100,000 cruise ship crew members are currently stuck at sea amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported on Sunday. Two staff members are known to have taken their own lives by jumping overboard, the Miami Herald said. While passengers on the cruise ships were evacuated by April, many of the crews remain onboard ships docked around the world or anchored off the coast - some without pay. Rockford Weitz, director of the Maritime Studies Program at Tufts University’s Fletcher S
  
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• 'Ultra-rare' blue bees found in Florida. It's been years since they were last seen.

  17-05-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The bees hadn't been seen since 2016 and experts thought they might have died out. But researchers found them again in an isolated Florida habitat.
  
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• Britain backs investigation into origins of coronavirus, amid hopes China will accept independent review

  17-05-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain is backing efforts to establish an World Health Organisation (WHO) investigation into the origins of coronavirus that has so far been blocked by China. The push for an independent inquiry - led by Australia and the EU - is set to be tabled at a meeting of the World Health Assembly tomorrow. The UK is a co-sponsor of the motion that calls for “scientific and collaborative field missions” with the aim of identifying the “source of the virus and the route of introduction t
  
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• Hope Solo’s dog Conan dies after being shot: ‘He fought up until the very end'

  17-05-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Conan, the "best" of her five Dobermans, was shot earlier this week.
  
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• 13 People Shot, With One in Critical Condition, at Louisiana Memorial Service

  17-05-2020 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The memorial service was apparently for Dominique James, who was recently murdered
  
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• Wealthy children will be seven days ahead from home schooling by June, report warns

  17-05-2020 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wealthy children will have received seven days’ worth of additional home learning by the time primary schools begin reopening next month, according to a new report, as Michael Gove warned that poorer students were being left behind. Amid an ongoing row over plans for key year groups to return to the classroom from June1, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that children from better-off households are spending an additional 75 minutes per day on education. If the Governme
  
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• Trump administration's firing of watchdog designed to protect Secretary Pompeo, Dems say

  17-05-2020 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two top Democrats launched a probe into Inspector General Steve Linick's firing and said it was done to shield Pompeo from an internal investigation.
  
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• HHS Secretary Azar Says America's Disproportionate COVID-19 Death Toll Is Due to Communities With 'Greater Risk Profiles'

  17-05-2020 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Sunday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar blamed America’s outsized number of COVID-19 cases and deaths on the number of U.S. communities that have “greater risk profiles.”
  
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• Bolsonaro snaps photos with children at Brazil protest, defying health advice

  17-05-2020 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wearing a face mask, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posed for photographs with children plucked out of a crowd of supporters on Sunday, disregarding public health advice aimed at containing one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks.Bolsonaro's latest flouting of social-distancing guidelines came after he lost two health ministers in a month, both of whom resisted his fight against quarantines.Brazil's confirmed cases of the virus passed those of Spain and Italy on Saturday, making it th
  
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• Iran Supreme Leader says Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria

  17-05-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran almost got into a full-blown conflict with the United States when a U.S. drone strike killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 3, prompting Tehran to retaliate with a missile barrage against a U.S. base in Iraq days later.Khamenei said Americans' actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria had led to them being hated, according to a transcript of a speech to students published on his website.
  
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• Qatar imposes mandatory masks on pain of prison

  17-05-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Qatar on Sunday began enforcing the world's toughest penalties of up to three years' in prison for failing to wear masks in public, in a country with one of the highest coronavirus infection rates.More than 32,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the tiny Gulf country -- 1.2 percent of the 2.75 million population -- although just 15 people have died.Only the micro-states of San Marino and the Vatican have had higher per-capita infection rates, according to the European Centre for Dise
  
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• White House adviser accused Obama of working as 'Joe Biden's press secretary' after he criticized the government's COVID-19 response

  17-05-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Obama told 2020 graduates that the pandemic had "finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many folks in charge know what they're doing."
  
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• Health secretary: No spike in coronavirus in places reopening

  17-05-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities are not seeing spikes in coronavirus cases in places that are reopening but are seeing increases in some areas that remain closed, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Sunday.
  
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• Biden plans to pick a female running mate. Would it make a difference if she's black?

  17-05-2020 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Analysis: The former vice president is undertaking a very public selection process.
  
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• 5 Iran tankers sailing to Venezuela amid US pressure tactics

  17-05-2020 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five Iranian tankers likely carrying at least $45.5 million worth of gasoline and similar products are now sailing to Venezuela, part of a wider deal between the two U.S.-sanctioned nations amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.The tankers' voyage came after Venezuela's socialist leader Nicolás Maduro already turned to Iran for help in flying in chemicals needed at an aging refinery amid a gasoline shortage, a symptom of the wider economic and political chaos gripping Lat
  
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• Salvadoran president declares emergency without OK from congress, sparking controversy

  17-05-2020 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Saturday night declared a state of emergency to extend coronavirus measures without approval by congress, touching off a torrent of criticism that the move had been unconstitutional.Salvadoran lawmakers and prosecutors on Sunday vowed to challenge the decree, which they said had overstepped Bukele's powers.Less than a year into his administration, Bukele, a brash 38-year-old leader, has repeatedly angered rights groups, who say he has shown authoritarian tend
  
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• Get a new OnePlus 6T 128GB unlocked smartphone for just $299 - CNET

  17-05-2020 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Get this 6.4-inch phone with a fingerprint reader, dual rear cameras, 4K video and other flagship features for at least $50 less than anywhere else right now.
  
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• Republican governor, senator have different reactions to crowded bars in their states

  17-05-2020 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) admitted footage of crowded bars in Wisconsin "concern, probably, all of us," he also said he understood the patrons' desire to relieve some of their frustrations after being "pent up" for quite some time because of the coronavirus pandemic. In Johnson's view, they were "celebrating a little freedom" as the state rolls back its lockdown measures.> Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson on crowded bars in his state: "I certainly see a small subsegment of Wisconsinites cele
  
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• Trump adviser claims inspector general was fired for being part of 'deep state'

  17-05-2020 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House adviser Peter Navarro downplayed the firing of the State Department's inspector general in a TV appearance on Sunday, linking him to the “deep state” and saying that those who are not loyal to the administration must go.Steve Linick became the fourth inspector general Donald Trump has fired in two months, following his acquittal by the Republican-controlled Senate in his impeachment trial.
  
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• New York Gov. Cuomo was tested for the coronavirus on live television as he urged more New Yorkers to also get tested

  17-05-2020 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cuomo demonstrated the test as an example for New Yorkers to visit one of the state's 700 testing sites if they believe they are exhibiting symptoms.
  
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• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took a COVID-19 test live on TV

  17-05-2020 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Democratic governor, who holds a daily coronavirus briefing, was swabbed for a COVID-19 test live during his Sunday briefing.
  
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• Top Trump Administration Officials Disagree on Whether the CDC's COVID-19 Response 'Let the Country Down'

  17-05-2020 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Advisor Peter Navarro said the CDC "really let the country down"
  
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• Former FDA commissioner says CDC should deliver more info on 'collective clinical experience' of coronavirus patients

  17-05-2020 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House economic adviser Peter Navarro said Sunday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "really let" the United States down when it came to coronavirus testing early on during the epidemic.In response to a question from NBC's Chuck Todd about whether President Trump trusts the CDC to take the lead on the coronavirus pandemic going forward, Navarro said the agency "set us back" by keeping the "bad" test "within the bureaucracy," though he didn't say its guidelines should be dis
  
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• Sterilize and wirelessly charge your phone, earbuds and more with this UV sterilizer for $50 - CNET

  17-05-2020 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This sterilization box bathes your devices in sweet, sweet UV-C lights while charging. It's also an aromatherapy diffuser.
  
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• Turn an old monitor and keyboard into a new workstation with this mini-PC for $190 - CNET

  17-05-2020 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Working from home? This might be a good alternative to buying a new laptop.
  
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• HHS Secretary Azar Says America's Disproportionate COVID-19 Death Toll Is Due to Communities With 'Greater Risk Profiles'

  17-05-2020 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. has less than 5% of the world population, yet makes up about 30% of the total global reported coronavirus deaths
  
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• Vudu's $5 movie sale includes Tom Cruise, Oscar winners and more - CNET

  17-05-2020 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Expand your digital library with titles like Mission: Impossible, La La Land and The Matrix.
  
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• Albania protesters clash with police over theatre demolition

  17-05-2020 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Albanian police on Sunday clashed with protesters including opposition supporters angry over the demolition of the national theatre and detained nearly 40 people.Workers at dawn began tearing down the theatre in the capital's main square, constructed in 1939 by Italians occupying Albania at the time.Dozens of opposition supporters, activists and actors battled with police as they tried to break through a security cordon, an AFP correspondent said.
  
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