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• White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil

  24-05-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Sunday further limited travel from the world's coronavirus hotspots by denying entry to foreigners coming from Brazil, which is second to the U.S. in the number of confirmed cases. Trump had already banned certain travelers from China, Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland and, to a lesser extent, Iran. Trump had said last week that he was considering limiting travel from Brazil.
  
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• AirPods 2 vs. original AirPods: What's changed with Apple's earbuds? - CNET

  24-05-2020 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you already have the original AirPods, you may not be missing much.
  
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• Dr. Birx said there's 'clear scientific evidence' masks help, but she assumes Trump doesn't wear one because he's 'able to maintain' social distancing

  24-05-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Birx said Americans should wear masks "out of respect for each other," but assumed Trump is able to socially distance "in a majority of cases."
  
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• Beach and party crowds across US break social distancing rules over Memorial Day weekend

  24-05-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite several weeks of warnings from health officials to follow “social distancing” measures and wear face coverings in public, Americans across the US crowded beaches and parties over Memorial Day weekend, among the first tests of a post-quarantine return to “normal” amid the coronavirus pandemic, as officials end “lock-down” measures to reopen their states.Video from a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office helicopter on Saturday captured dozens of people b
  
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• South African President Ramaphosa says outbreak will get worse

  24-05-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cyril Ramaphosa said the worst is still ahead while announcing an ease in lockdown measures.
  
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• Six women prisoners murdered by inmates in Honduras

  24-05-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six women were killed by alleged gang members at a women's prison near the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, the National Penitentiary Institute said on Sunday.The killers broke through gates and the roof of a building at the women's prison in Tamara, 10 kilometers to the north of Tegucigalpa, "to go to the gymnasium where six prisoners were staying and murdered them," said the INP.One prisoner had earlier caused a diversion by starting a fire in a dormitory where two inmates quarantined over the co
  
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• Biden wins Hawaii presidential primary delayed by coronavirus

  24-05-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden won the Hawaii Democratic residential primary on Saturday, which was delayed by more than a month because of the coronavirus. Biden defeated Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 63% to 37%.
  
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• Baby gorilla badly injured in family skirmish at Seattle zoo

  24-05-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A baby gorilla was badly injured at a Seattle zoo on Saturday when he was caught in a skirmish between his family group members, zookeepers said.Animal health experts at the Woodland Park Zoo say little Kitoko was bitten on the head, likely by accident when another gorilla tried to bite his mother, Uzumma.Kitoko sustained a fractured skull and a severe laceration, but zoo officials say the 2-month-old gorilla underwent surgery and may fully recover if he doesn't develop an infection.
  
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• Trump says he's finished hydroxychloroquine regimen to ward off COVID-19

  24-05-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FDA has cautioned against the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 treatment outside of hospitals or clinical trials.
  
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• Behind Trump and Sessions's Twitter fight, a key Senate seat

  24-05-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump are fighting on social media about a primary race in Alabama that may be key to Republicans retaining control of the U.S. Senate. Trump has targeted Sessions for punishment since Sessions recused himself in 2017 from a U.S. probe into Russian election interference.
  
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• Murder suspect with 'strong ties' to Newtown, Connecticut, is manhunt subject

  24-05-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peter Manfredonia, 23, is being sought in a Friday attack that left one dead and one injured, as well as the death of an acquaintance.
  
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• Kim Jong Un makes first public appearance in weeks

  24-05-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's his first public appearance since May 1​, when state-run media reported he attended at a factory opening after rumors flew that he was gravely ill.
  
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• Church opens doors to Muslim worshippers so they can have a place to pray

  24-05-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It is a great sign and it brings joy in Ramadan and joy amid this crisis," said Mohamed Taha Sabry, the mosque's imam.
  
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• ‘Jesus Is Essential’: These Churches Answered Trump’s Call and Defied Lockdown

  24-05-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Sunday, just days after Donald Trump encouraged houses of worship to reopen even in states under coronavirus lockdowns, churches from Maine to California defied the law and welcomed worshippers at live services.In Washington State—the early ground zero of COVID-19 in America—Covenant Christian Church in Spokane welcomed a sizeable, mask-less crowd for morning prayers, according to the local Spokesman-Review. The Reverend Ken Peters, who claims he’d been holding in-person ser
  
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• A study found that tech workers could flee dense San Francisco for suburban-like San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley amid remote working boom

  24-05-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  San Jose is much less dense, with only 5,300 residents per square mile compared to 17,000 in San Francisco.
  
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• Jacinda Ardern stays cool as earthquake rattles New Zealand capital

  24-05-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An earthquake struck near New Zealand's capital on Monday morning, shaking many residents including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who continued with a live TV interview at the parliament building.The 5.8 magnitude earthquake was 37 kms deep and the epicentre was 30 km northwest of Levin, a city in New Zealand's North Island close to the capital Wellington, according to Geonet.Geonet first classified the earthquake as magnitude 5.9.
  
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• Britain’s Boris Johnson gambles on public forgiveness for top aide

  24-05-2020 22:21 via politico.com
  
  The prime minister said Dominic Cummings “acted responsibly” despite alleged lockdown breaches.
  
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• Fact check: Face masks can be unsafe for children under 2, but not for most adults

  24-05-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The CDC recommends people wear cloth face coverings in public, except for young children. But it is false to say wearing a mask is harmful to adults
  
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• Boris Johnson's decision to back Dominic Cummings could cost lives, Cabinet members fear

  24-05-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson stepped in to protect Dominic Cummings on Sunday night in a move that caused alarm among some members of the Cabinet. The Prime Minister made an unscheduled appearance at a Downing Street press conference in which he defended his chief adviser against accusations that he had breached lockdown rules, insisting that Mr Cummings had "acted responsibly and legally and with integrity". Cabinet colleagues, however, voiced fears that the move risked "seriously undermining" the Government&
  
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• Gov. Cuomo says US economy won't bounce back on its own post-pandemic because 'too many' small businesses have closed and corporations won't rehire laid-off workers

  24-05-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cuomo also said too many small businesses have closed and that the government will need to "stimulate" an economy transformed by the coronavirus.
  
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• Memorial Day weekend pool party in Ozarks draws national attention

  24-05-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Already, the pool party footage has picked up coverage from several media outlets, including TMZ, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and others.
  
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• Chile's hospitals under strain as coronavirus cases near 70,000, president says

  24-05-2020 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chile's healthcare system is under strain and "very close to the limit," President Sebastian Pinera said on Sunday, as the number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections approaches 70,000 after a rapid increase in recent days.The Ministry of Health reported 3,709 new cases in the last day, bringing the total to 69,102."We are very close to the limit because we have had a very large increase in the needs and demands for medical care, and for intensive care unit beds and ventilators," Pinera sai
  
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• Coronavirus is reportedly killing young people at unprecedented rates in developing countries

  24-05-2020 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Analysis by The Washington Post highlights the socioeconomic factors behind the groups of people most likely to be infected or killed by the virus.
  
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• Anti-lockdown sheriffs call on constituent power to push back on coronavirus restrictions

  24-05-2020 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Opposition to stay-at-home orders is the latest episode in a defiant law enforcement history that stretches back to the end of slavery.
  
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• South African president says lockdown to ease from June 1

  24-05-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday a further easing of South Africa's coronavirus lockdown from June 1, allowing the vast majority of the economy to return to full capacity.Africa's most industrialised economy has been largely shut down since late March, when the government enforced severe restrictions to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus which has so far infected 22,583 people and killed 429.Ramaphosa, who has been under pressure from rival political parties and a variety of i
  
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• Coronavirus 'cover-up' is China's Chernobyl: White House adviser

  24-05-2020 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top White House official on Sunday likened China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak to the Soviet Union's cover-up of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.National security adviser Robert O'Brien said Beijing knew what was happening with the virus, which originated in Wuhan, from November but lied to the World Health Organization and prevented outside experts from accessing information.The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in the former Soviet republic of
  
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• U.S. CDC reports total of 1.6 million coronavirus cases and 97,049 deaths

  24-05-2020 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by the new coronavirus, as of 4 p.m. ET on May 23, compared with its count a day earlier.The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
  
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• Gov. Cuomo: travelers from Europe 'brought the virus to New York'

  24-05-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cuomo said Trump's Europe travel ban — which initially excluded the UK and Ireland — triggered a rush of Americans who returned home with the virus.
  
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• Donald Trump faces coronavirus backlash after being pictured without a face mask

  24-05-2020 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump was accused of violating official public health guidelines after he was pictured shaking hands with his opponent while playing golf without a face mask. Mr Trump was pictured enjoying his first round on a green since March 8 at his own Virgian golf course on Saturday. It came as the US coronavirus death toll approached 100,000. His behaviour appeared to flout recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control, the federal organisation that oversees the national epidemic response. "T
  
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• Democratic VP contender Demings slams Trump 'gall' over Biden black voters gaffe

  24-05-2020 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Congresswoman offers glimpse of running mate role* Opinion: Black Americans are in an abusive relationship* US politics live – rolling reportVal Demings, a Democratic representative from Florida among contenders to be Joe Biden’s presidential running mate, has castigated Donald Trump for having the “gall and nerve” to use a gaffe by Biden as a weapon on the campaign trail.Biden apologised on Friday, for saying that if African Americans “have a problem figuring out
  
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• Afghanistan: Taliban prisoner release amid Eid al-Fitr ceasefire

  24-05-2020 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The government says up to 2,000 prisoners will be freed, after the Islamist group proposed a truce.
  
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• UK PM Johnson backs key aide over lockdown breach claims

  24-05-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday defied pressure from within his own party and backed top aide Dominic Cummings over allegations he breached coronavirus lockdown rules.Cummings has been a highly divisive figure in British politics since masterminding the successful 2016 Brexit campaign alongside Johnson.Johnson said during Sunday's news briefing he believed Cummings "acted responsibly and legally and with integrity" after the pair held crisis talks.
  
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• Google Pixel 4A and 4A XL rumors: These are the most compelling ones so far - CNET

  24-05-2020 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  5G, a headphone jack, Android 11 and everything else we know (or think we know) about Google's next budget phones.
  
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• iPhone SE vs. iPhone 11 Pro: The choice between budget and flagship is not so obvious - CNET

  24-05-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We compare the specs and day-to-day performance of these two Apple phones to see how they stack up.
  
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• Coronavirus: Trump aide claims China guilty of cover-up akin to Chernobyl

  24-05-2020 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Trump spends second day on golf course as toll nears 100,000* China raises US trade tensions with warning of ‘new cold war’* Coronavirus US live – rolling reportThe White House on Sunday accused China of a cover-up that will “go down in history along with Chernobyl”, ramping up efforts to deflect attention from a Covid-19 death toll in the US fast closing on 100,000.Robert O’Brien, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, made the claim on two politic
  
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• iPhone 11 vs. iPhone 11 Pro vs. iPhone 11 Pro Max: The main differences you should care about - CNET

  24-05-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We compare the specs and features of iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max to help you choose the best Apple phone.
  
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• The inconvenient truth is that Boris Johnson needs an enforcer

  24-05-2020 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anyone who has ever worked closely with the Prime Minister will vouch that he cannot bear letting staff go. Countless aides have come and gone over the years and they have all departed with the echo of Boris Johnson’s voice pleading: “Don’t leave.” For, despite his beloved bravado, Mr Johnson hates any kind of confrontation whatsoever. Which is why he hired Dominic Cummings in the first place and why he refused to fire him despite the growing clamour for his resignation.
  
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• Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Africa - amid coronavirus

  24-05-2020 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With mosques closed in some countries because of Covid-19, Eid feels a bit different this year.
  
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• Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid-al-Fitr amid curfews, coronavirus restrictions

  24-05-2020 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many of the world's 1.8 billion Muslims will celebrate the festivities in private, over video calls, as mosques maintain social distance restirctions.
  
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• Yemeni gravediggers overwhelmed amid spike in virus deaths

  24-05-2020 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a cemetery in Yemen’s largest southern city, dozens of fresh graves were a testament to a spike in deaths amid the coronavirus pandemic.Mohammed Ebeid, a gravedigger in Aden, said there's been five times the normal traffic, with 51 burials in the last week at the cemetery where he works.The international aid group Doctors Without Borders has reported a spike in deaths and infections from coronavirus, including health workers at a facility it runs in the city.
  
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• National security adviser predicts 'terrible brain drain' in Hong Kong if China strips autonomy

  24-05-2020 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After the coronavirus pandemic slowed the momentum of anti-government, pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, the protest movement picked up steam again Sunday after Beijing signaled it would directly impose national security laws on the city. Now, many of the young protesters believe the only two outcomes are either independence or the loss of autonomy promised in China's 1997 territorial exchange with the United Kingdom.If the latter takes place, U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O'Bri
  
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• North Dakota Governor Chokes Up as He Calls on State Residents to Avoid 'Mask Shaming'

  24-05-2020 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mask orders have been met with threats and videos have surfaced of crowds ridiculing people for choosing to wear face coverings
  
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• Manhunt Underway for Armed-to-Teeth UConn Student Wanted in Deadly Rampage

  24-05-2020 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A manhunt is underway for a University of Connecticut student suspected of killing two people and stealing guns and cars in a three-day rampage.“We know that he is armed and dangerous,” Connecticut State Trooper Christine Jeltema said at an afternoon press conference. “Do not approach him.”The suspect, Peter Manfredonia, 23, is believed to be driving a stolen black Volkswagen Jetta that has a bumper sticker paying tribute to victims of the Sandy Hook massacre in his homet
  
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• Manhunt Underway for Armed-to-Teeth UConn Student Wanted for Murder

  24-05-2020 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Connecticut police were scouring a state park on Sunday in search of a college student suspected of brutally killing a 62-year-old man who offered him a ride and then breaking into a home to steal guns.“Do NOT approach,” state police warned the public as SWAT officers swarmed Osbornedale State Park in Derby, hunting for 23-year-old Peter Manfredonia.Law enforcement zeroed in on the park after Manfredonia, who is enrolled at the University of Connecticut, apparently abandoned a stolen
  
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• SoCal restaurant offers 'drive-in, dine-out' service amid pandemic

  24-05-2020 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Southern California restaurant has decided dine-in service is just too dangerous, so the owners came up with another way to keep business flowing during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Trump Sows Doubt on Voting. It Keeps Some People Up at Night.

  24-05-2020 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON -- In October, President Donald Trump declares a state of emergency in major cities in battleground states, like Milwaukee and Detroit, banning polling places from opening.A week before the election, Attorney General William Barr announces a criminal investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden.After Biden wins a narrow Electoral College victory, Trump refuses to accept the results, won't leave the White House and declines to allow the Biden transition team custom
  
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• Best Xbox One games for 2020 - CNET

  24-05-2020 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  These are the best Xbox titles you can buy right now.
  
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• Charlamagne Tha God Reacts to Joe Biden’s ‘You Ain’t Black’ Apology

  24-05-2020 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MSNBC’s Joy Reid opened her interview with Charlamagne Tha God on Sunday morning by congratulating him on his interview this past week with former Vice President Joe Biden—even if all anyone wants to talk about are the final few seconds. Biden came under swift fire on Friday when he pushed back against the popular radio host’s suggestion that he might still have “questions” for the candidate before the 2020 election. “You’ve got more questions?&rdqu
  
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• As nation approaches 100,000 dead, NY continues downtrend

  24-05-2020 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The daily coronavirus death toll increased slightly though the trend continues down, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.Cuomo said the state was now “decidedly in the reopening phase.”The latest tally from Cuomo came as the nation's death toll from the coronavirus was approaching 100,000 on the eve of Memorial Day.
  
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• Former FDA commissioner expects people can 'enjoy some semblance' of normal life in summer months

  24-05-2020 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday that the coronavirus outbreak hasn't been "contained yet," but he did tell CBS's Margaret Brennan that he believes there will be a "seasonal effect" that may allow Americans to "enjoy some semblance of the lives they want to enjoy" particularly in the summer months of July and August as cases go down. Of course, people will need to continue practicing good hygiene and modified social distancing.That said, he also anticip
  
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