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• Twitter fact-checks Trump tweet for the first time

  26-05-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twitter on Tuesday for the first time prompted readers to check the facts in tweets sent by U.S. President Donald Trump, warning that his claims about mail-in ballots were false and had been debunked by fact checkers.The move marked a dramatic shift for the social network, Trump's primary tool for getting an unfiltered version of his message out to his political base, after years of permissive policies around content on its platform.The company has been tightening those policies in recent years
  
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• Photos show how Wuhan tested 6.5 million people for the coronavirus in 9 days, while the US has tested only 14 million people in 4 months

  26-05-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On May 11, the Chinese city of Wuhan ordered all 11 million of its residents to be tested for the novel coronavirus after six new cases were reported.
  
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• Photos show how Wuhan tested 6.5 million people for the coronavirus in 9 days, while the US has only tested 14 million people in 4 months

  26-05-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On May 11, the Chinese city of Wuhan ordered all 11 million of its residents to be tested for the novel coronavirus after six new cases were reported.
  
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• House Republicans to sue Pelosi over remote proxy voting in pandemic

  26-05-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. House of Representatives Republicans will sue Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi over rule changes that allow members to vote on each other's behalf during the coronavirus pandemic, Republican aides said on Tuesday.The lawsuit, to be filed in federal court in Washington, will seek to block the new system passed by the Democratic-majority House and intended to allow the chamber to function while observing social distancing guidelines.It will argue that the rule changes are unconstitutional, the
  
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• NASA's chief brought back a famous old 'worm' logo for SpaceX to use during its historic first launch of astronauts

  26-05-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the matter was "personal" for him because he grew up with the worm-style logo.
  
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• Trump, for some reason, compares coronavirus death toll (over 98,000) to that of swine flu (under 20,000)

  26-05-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On a day when the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000, President Trump sought to direct the nation’s attention back to the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic as a way to smear the reputation of his Democratic rival Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.
  
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• 'Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it': Trump asks if he should use insulin at White House seniors event

  26-05-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's latest tangent ended up in a speculative riff about whether he should take insulin during a seniors event.
  
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• FX officially orders American Horror Story spinoff anthology series

  26-05-2020 23:38
  
  Earlier this month, American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy dropped a surprising piece of information in an Instagram post — there will be a spinoff series based on the popular horror TV show. Almost no details were provided at the time, but now, weeks later, more news has surfaced: FX has officially ordered the new anthology series. The spinoff show … Continue reading
  
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• Biden wins AFL-CIO endorsement as he seeks to recapture blue-collar vote

  26-05-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It became the latest labor group to back the former vice president as he seeks to reclaim support from blue-collar workers who voted for Trump in 2016, especially in key election battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.The 12.5 million-member, 55-union AFL-CIO is a reliable Democratic ally that was expected to endorse Biden after he became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.It endorsed Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in 2016.
  
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• Michigan Gov. Whitmer calls husband's boat launch request a 'failed attempt at humor' amid backlash

  26-05-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “He thought it might get a laugh. It didn’t," Whitmer said. "And to be honest, I wasn’t laughing either when it was relayed to me because I knew how it would be perceived."
  
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• Donald Trump Medical Style Face Mask

  26-05-2020 23:18 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
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• DOJ reportedly closes insider trading investigations into 3 senators

  26-05-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Insider trading investigations into three senators have reportedly been closed by the Justice Department.The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that investigations into Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and James Inhofe (R-Okla.), are being closed, although a probe of Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) remains open.The senators came under scrutiny following reports that they sold stock holdings earlier this year after receiving briefings about the coronavirus, shortly befor
  
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• The most-searched recipes on Google to inspire your next quarantine meal

  26-05-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Have you been looking for recipes during coronavirus quarantine? Here are six of the most-searched foods on Google, along with related recipes.
  
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• Tragic video highlights systemic problem: Minneapolis police kill black people 13 times more than white people

  26-05-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I can’t breathe” were some of the last words that a handcuffed George Floyd said as he was pinned on the ground, while a white Minneapolis police officer held a knee to his neck for several minutes on Monday. Floyd, a black man, is now dead.
  
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• Blizzard just cancelled their yearly convention: No BlizzCon 2020

  26-05-2020 22:51
  
  As of this afternoon, Blizzard made it official: There will be no BlizzCon 2020. This is an update to a previously-released statement that said they’d be considering the future. Now it’s become a more solid understanding that BlizzCon 2020 will, indeed, be cancelled outright. This does not mean that future BlizzCon events will be held, only that here in 2020, … Continue reading
  
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• A Florida teacher convicted of multiple sex crimes involving students begged a judge for castration instead of prison time

  26-05-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mark Lua, 32, pleaded guilty to the sex offenses last year. Last week, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
  
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• Sonar used to search Oklahoma pond for 2 missing children

  26-05-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Searchers used sonar on Tuesday to examine a Tulsa pond for two young children last seen days ago with their noncustodial mother, who was arrested after being questioned about their disappearance.The Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Tulsa firefighters joined Tulsa police in searching a pond near an east Tulsa apartment complex for 3-year-old Miracle Crook and 2-year-old Tony Crook.Tulsa police did not immediately return phone calls Tuesday for further comment.
  
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• DOJ ends coronavirus insider trading investigations into 3 senators but continues probing Richard Burr

  26-05-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Justice Department has notified lawyers for Senators Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, Dianne Feinstein of California and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma that it will not charge the lawmakers with insider trading for stock sales they or their family members made shortly after some had attended non-public intelligence briefings about the coronavirus crisis earlier this year.The DOJ is still probing transactions executed in February by Senator Richard Burr, who stepped down as Intelligence chairman last week
  
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• As Georgia reopens, is it creating a model for America?

  26-05-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Georgia’s rapid reopening one month ago had many officials predicting a new spike in cases. So far that hasn’t happened.
  
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• Michigan governor’s husband under fire for asking to take his boat out during lockdown

  26-05-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Whitmer said her husband made a ‘failed attempt at humor’ in asking if boat could be put in the water by Memorial Day weekend* Coronavirus – live US updates* Live global updatesMichigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has come under fire this weekend as allegations have arisen that her own husband has been trying to flout her strict shutdown rules – in what she says was a “failed attempt at humor”.Affectionately nicknamed “Big Gretch”, Whitmer
  
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• Bay Area woman arrested for posting notes on homes targeting Asian Americans

  26-05-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The notes read: “If you are a woman or man and was born in other country, return, go back to your land immediately, fast, with urgency.”
  
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• Bay Area woman accused of posting notes on homes targeting Asian Americans

  26-05-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The notes read: "If you are a woman or man and was born in other country, return, go back to your land immediately, fast, with urgency."
  
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• Orthodox Jews arrested over wedding in Argentina

  26-05-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eight people were detained as they were preparing to celebrate an Orthodox Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires despite a lockdown, the local public prosecutor said on Tuesday.The wedding couple, the godparents and the rabbi who led the ceremony were arrested for "flagrantly" flouting the lockdown, the capital city's prosecutor Juan Bautista Mahiques told the A24 channel.The arrests came about after a video was shared of the wedding the previous Wednesday involving 150 guests in the Once neighborhood,
  
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• New York looks to 'turn the page' on coronavirus and focus on reopening economy

  26-05-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday and announces that more regions of the state will reopen this week.
  
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• Mike Pence predicted the pandemic would be 'behind us' by Memorial Day. Instead, hospitalizations are rising as deaths near 100,000.

  26-05-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US deaths from the virus neared the devastating milestone of 100,000 over the holiday weekend and US hospitalizations are ticking up again.
  
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• Woman sacked after calling police on black man

  26-05-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The woman, identified as Amy Cooper, called police saying an African-American man was threatening her life.
  
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• Trump news - live: President mocks reporter for not taking mask off after asking whether he should be taking insulin during diabetes event

  26-05-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A widower is calling on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to remove tweets posted by President Donald Trump and his allies promoting a debunked conspiracy theory that claims his wife was murdered by former congressman-turned TV personality Joe Scarborough.The husband of Lori Klausutis, who previously worked for Scarborough during his time in office, wrote in an open letter to Mr Dorsey that the president’s false tweets be removed as they are false and in violation of the platform’s policies. H
  
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• Certain exercises linked to improved blood flow in key brain regions

  26-05-2020 22:24
  
  It’s no secret that aerobic exercise can help protect and even improve brain health, and now a new study can potentially explain why. According to researchers with UT Southwestern Medical Center, aerobic exercise may improve blood flow in two key parts of the brain. This may be particularly beneficial for older adults who are risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Both … Continue reading
  
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• 'Deeply disturbing' report into Ontario care homes released

  26-05-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Canadian armed forces report documented cases of insect infestation, force feeding, and neglect.
  
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• Zuckerberg reportedly brushed aside internal research that showed Facebook exposed users to more and more extreme views, saying he never wanted the topic brought to him again

  26-05-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After Facebook researchers found the site contributed to divisive rhetoric, executives reportedly nixed proposed changes for fear of appearing biased.
  
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• Incoming PS4 State of Play is all about The Last of Us Part II

  26-05-2020 22:13
  
  As Sony prepares to close out this hardware generation, there are two big games still on the way to the PlayStation 4: Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us Part II. A couple of weeks ago, we got to see a lot of Ghost of Tsushima in a special State of Play, and now it’s The Last of Us … Continue reading
  
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• A plastic surgeon points out the 3 changes on Khloe Kardashian's face after she shared a new look on Instagram

  26-05-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Beverly Hills-based Dr. Arash Moradzadeh said it looks like Khloe got a nose job and fillers, but photo filters may be involved too.
  
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• States are trying to lure the Republican National Convention away from North Carolina

  26-05-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The wooing comes after President Trump threatened to move the convention unless he gets a "guarantee" there won't be any health restrictions.
  
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• Factbox: Biden wants a woman to be his running mate. Here are some names under consideration

  26-05-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden has vowed to choose a woman as his potential vice president.A number of advisers have pressed Biden's campaign to pick Harris, 55, because the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants could help excite black voters, a key Democratic constituency.Harris endorsed Biden after dropping out of the race, but her earlier criticism of him during a Democratic primary debate about his opposition to school busing rankled some people close to Biden.
  
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• Clyburn: I 'cringed' at Biden 'you ain't black' comment but compare him 'to the alternative, not the Almighty'

  26-05-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “We sometimes say things we do not really mean, they come out a little bit wrong, and that's what happened here. I think all of us know Joe Biden,” Clyburn said.
  
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• The DOJ is closing its insider trading inquiries into 3 senators but is still investigating GOP Sen. Richard Burr

  26-05-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Burr stepped down as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee last week after it surfaced that the FBI had seized a cell phone belonging to him.
  
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• NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are slated to fly SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship this week. Here's how they've prepared.

  26-05-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Crew Dragon is expected to launch a new era of US spaceflight for NASA. It's slated to carry astronauts for the first time this week.
  
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• America returns to space: Why Wednesday's launch matters

  26-05-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. returns to space Wednesday, but the flight’s significance goes beyond patriotic notions.
  
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• Watchdog who found hospital shortages unfazed by Trump barbs

  26-05-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The author of a federal report that found U.S. hospitals faced severe shortages of coronavirus test supplies says she is not intimidated by criticism from President Donald Trump, even after he moved to replace her as chief watchdog of the Department of Health and Human Services.Christi Grimm, who has served as acting inspector general since January, told a House panel that there was no “chilling effect” from Trump's criticism of herlast month and his subsequent move to replace her.&l
  
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• Fact check: Anthony Fauci hasn't served on the board of the Clinton or Gates foundations

  26-05-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a target of misinformation. The claim he has served on Clinton Foundation or Gates Foundation boards is false.
  
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• Calls in Congress for probe on how former Trump aide won $3 million respirator contract

  26-05-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Before leaving the Trump administration, Zachary Fuentes was a deputy to John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Trump’s second chief of staff.
  
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• Coronavirus world round-up: Brazil's daily death toll highest in world

  26-05-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Follow the latest coronavirus news in our daily live blog Read all our coronavirus coverage here Brazil's death toll highest in world for fifth straight day Brazil reported the highest daily Covid-19 death toll in the world on Tuesday with 1,039 people killed, the fifth straight day the country has topped the list. Latin America's largest country, which has emerged as a new epicenter in the pandemic, has seen its daily death toll surge past that of the US, the hardest-hit country so far. The US
  
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• Anger as white woman reports black birdwatcher in Central Park to police

  26-05-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A video of a white woman calling the police about a black birdwatcher in New York's Central Park has gone viral, sparking anger about African Americans being falsely reported to cops.The clip, posted on Twitter and viewed 30 million times, was filmed by the man, Christian Cooper, who said he had asked the woman to leash her dog.As the woman struggles to control the dog, she approaches Cooper and is then seen making a phone call.
  
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• Feinstein cleared by Justice Department in husband's stock trades

  26-05-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Justice Department on Tuesday informed Sen. Dianne Feinstein that she was not a target of any investigation into stock trades.
  
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• McEnany defends Trump’s promoting 'Morning Joe' conspiracy theory

  26-05-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday defended President Trump’s promotion of a murder conspiracy theory about 'Morning Joe' host Joe Scarborough.
  
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• Is it safe to send children to daycare? Experts weigh in

  26-05-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the country re-opens and parents return to workplaces, some are wondering if it's safe for kids to return to childcare facilities.
  
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• Supreme Court refuses to block lower court order demanding action against coronavirus at Ohio prison

  26-05-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The high court's action represented its most significant intervention to date related to the deadly impact of COVID-19 inside federal prisons.
  
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• Bones of approximately 60 mammoths discovered in Mexico

  26-05-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The discoveries will provide an "unprecedented opportunity to delve into more than 30,000 years of history," the country's National Institute of Anthropology and History said.
  
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• CBS' 'Criminal Minds' team sued in sexual harassment case

  26-05-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California agency brings sexual harassment lawsuit against the studios and producers of the CBS drama "Criminal Minds."
  
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• Pentagon's former top inspector general resigns after demotion by President Trump

  26-05-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon's former top inspector general resigned Monday after being pushed from his post by President Trump last month.
  
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