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• California Man Fatally Shot by Police Amid Floyd Protests Was Kneeling and Had a Hammer Not Gun: Chief

  04-06-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sean Monterrosa, 22, was suspected of stealing from a pharmacy in the San Francisco Bay Area amid national protests
  
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• Hulu ends all support for old Roku players: Here are your new options

  04-06-2020 23:54
  
  If you’re still clinging to your ancient Roku player, now is the time to move on. Hulu has ended all support for several of these aging devices, meaning the classic app no longer works. This effectively ends Hulu’s presence on the old hardware, a change that has been expected for a while. The news follows Netflix’s own decision to end … Continue reading
  
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• 'No more tolerance': NYPD breaks up peaceful protests after curfew

  04-06-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The NYPD changed tactics during a tamer night of protests Wednesday, breaking up peaceful demonstrations after the curfew had passed, angering some elected officials.
  
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• Colorado Ethics Commission Votes Unanimously to Hold Hickenlooper in Contempt for Ignoring Subpoena

  04-06-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Colorado governor and current Democratic Senate candidate John Hickenlooper skipped a remote hearing and ignored a subpoena by the state’s Independent Ethics Commission over his alleged violations of Colorado’s gift ban.When Hickenlooper did not appear at the virtual hearing — which suffered from technical difficulties — the commission voted unanimously to have the state attorney general’s office enforce the subpoena. After the vote, Ethics Commission chair E
  
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• Raw feelings abound as Senate turns back to Russia probe

  04-06-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Republican-led Senate committees have launched election-year investigations into the Justice Department’s Russia probe, resurrecting the issue at the urging of President Donald Trump while reigniting the partisan hostility that comes along with it.In two committee rooms Thursday, tensions boiled as lawmakers considered a raft of subpoenas for current and former Justice Department officials.With the country suffering through civil unrest over police brutality, mass unemployment and the
  
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• Military Leaders to Troops: It's Time to Talk About Racism and Protests

  04-06-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As of Wednesday, leaders from each of the services had published memos to their force addressing Floyd's death.
  
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• 70% of people infected with the coronavirus did not pass it to anyone, preliminary research shows. Superspreading events account for most transmission.

  04-06-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new study showed that just 20% of coronavirus cases account for 80% of transmission. Superspreading plays a key role in the growth of outbreaks.
  
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• 70% of people infected with coronavirus did not pass it to anyone, preliminary research shows. Super-spreading events account for most transmission.

  04-06-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new study revealed that just 20% of coronavirus cases account for 80% of transmission. Super-spreading plays a key role in the growth of outbreaks.
  
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• Trump's relations with military veer toward breakdown

  04-06-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of Defense Mark Esper's rebuff of President Donald Trump over deploying troops to quell protests and sharp blasts from previous Pentagon leaders including Jim Mattis have left Trump's relations with the US military dangerously frayed.Esper's announcement Wednesday that he opposed deploying active military to quell nationwide protests over police brutality was an extraordinary pushback to the official armed forces commander in chief."I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act," Espe
  
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• In 1985, A Nuclear Submarine Explosion Contaminated Russia's Far East

  04-06-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The accident scene was heavily contaminated with radioactivity.
  
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• Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley puts hold on Trump nominees in clash over firing of two watchdogs

  04-06-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The move by Sen. Chuck Grassley escalates his feud with President Trump over the president's decision to remove two inspector generals.
  
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• Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond to come down 'as soon as possible,' Va. gov says; 4 others on Monument Avenue to be removed, too

  04-06-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Robert E. Lee statue and other Confederate monuments on Richmond's Monument Avenue will be removed amid protests over George Floyd's death.
  
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• Top Journal Yanks Study Questioning Effectiveness of Malaria Drug Pushed by Trump

  04-06-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Lancet, a top scientific journal, has pulled a major paper questioning the effectiveness of the malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19. The Thursday reversal came after the three authors of the May 22 paper—Mandeep Mehra, Frank Ruschitzka, and Amit Pate—disavowed their own work. Their paper, entitled “Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis,”
  
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• Mark Cuban commissioned a 3-way poll last month as he considered running as an independent against Biden and Trump in the 2020 presidential election

  04-06-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I dominated the independent vote," Cuban said of his performance against Biden and Trump in the poll. "I got like 77% of it."
  
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• Reversing type-2 diabetes study reports overwhelming success

  04-06-2020 23:09
  
  A new study out of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar has found that an “intensive” year-long program successfully sent type-2 diabetes into remission for 61-percent of the participants, highlighting a potentially very effective treatment option. Rather than focusing on drugs, the protocol involved an overall lifestyle, tasking the participants with eating a low-calorie diet, losing weight, and more. Type-2 diabetes, also called … Continue reading
  
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• Detained US Navy veteran freed by Iran as part of deal

  04-06-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. Navy veteran whose family said his only crime was falling in love left Iran on Thursday after nearly two years of detention, winning his freedom as part of a deal that spared an American-Iranian physician from any additional time behind bars.Michael White flew from Tehran to Zurich, where he was met by diplomat Brian Hook, the U.S. special envoy for Iran who has led the negotiations for the release of White and other American detainees in Iran.White and Hook then departed Zurich on a U.S.
  
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• A bunch of Electronic Arts games just went live on Steam

  04-06-2020 23:05
  
  Years ago, many of Electronic Arts’ PC games could be found on Steam. New EA releases were published there frequently, but then one day, Electronic Arts decided that it wanted to take the fight to Steam, launching Origin as a storefront all its own. Many of EA’s existing games were left on Steam after Origin launched, but from that point … Continue reading
  
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• Photos show thousands of Hong Kongers defying a police order to attend vigils memorializing the victims of the Tienanmen Square massacre

  04-06-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hong Kong banned residents from memorializing the Tiananmen Square massacre for the first time, but thousands of protesters gathered Thursday anyway.
  
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• U.S. schools lay off hundreds of thousands, setting up lasting harm to kids

  04-06-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Macias, a 26-year-old English teacher, had attended Castle Park High School herself as a student.Macias, along with 204 other teachers in San Diego’s Sweetwater Union High School District, will lose her job when the school year ends June 5.Macias will join the staggering number of public school personnel across the United States who have lost their jobs in the wake of school closures amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
  
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• Slack shares plunge over 17% after earnings report that suggests the remote work boom hasn't boosted it as much as Wall Street hoped

  04-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Slack's revenue showed 50% growth from a year prior, barely above the 49% growth that it saw in the previous two quarters.
  
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• Las Vegas Strip reopening scenes: Foot traffic light, but Bellagio fountains dancing

  04-06-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After being closed for nearly three months, Las Vegas Strip hotels and casinos were getting ready to open their doors.
  
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• Adoptee's historic court case could change how adoptees use the legal system

  04-06-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kara Bos’s lawsuit could help her find out why she was abandoned and who her mother was. It could also change how adoptees use the legal system.
  
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• Politically explosive Senate investigations run through a very reluctant Mitt Romney

  04-06-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Mitt Romney has his foot hovering over the brakes for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s ongoing probe into alleged — and so far unsubstantiated — malfeasance by Obama-era intelligence officials during the 2016 and 2017 Russia investigations.And that’s where it remained on Thursday, as the Utah Republican voted in lockstep with his party’s majority on the panel, 8-6, to approve nearly three dozen subpoenas for top ex-Obama offi
  
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• Heat-trapping carbon dioxide in air hits new record high

  04-06-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world hit another new record high for heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, despite reduced emissions because of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists announced Thursday.Measurements of carbon dioxide, the chief human-caused greenhouse gas, averaged 417.1 parts per million at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, for the month of May, when carbon levels in the air peak, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.Carbon dioxide can stay in the air for centuries, so the short-term reductio
  
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• Anti-racism protest targets British PM Johnson's aide Cummings

  04-06-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A small group of protesters chanting "Black Lives Matter" gathered on Thursday outside the London home of Dominic Cummings, a close aide to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the centre of a scandal that has damaged the government.Anti-racism protests have taken place in Britain in recent days, in solidarity with U.S. demonstrations sparked by the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck.The brief protest outside Cumm
  
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• Ex-Minneapolis cop told other officers 'you shouldn't do this' during George Floyd's arrest, lawyer says

  04-06-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorneys for two of the officers, charged with aiding and abetting murder, claimed the men tried to express concern during Floyd's deadly arrest.
  
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• Ex-Minneapolis cop told other officers 'you shouldn't do this' during George Floyd arrest, lawyer says

  04-06-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorneys for two of the officers, charged with aiding and abetting murder, claimed the men tried to express concern during Floyd's deadly arrest.
  
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• Under-fire New York mayor booed at George Floyd vigil

  04-06-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York's mayor was widely booed Thursday during a vigil for George Floyd, an unarmed African American killed by police, after the official defended heavy handed policing of protesters defying the city's curfew.Hundreds of mourners jeered over Bill de Blasio's brief remarks at the Brooklyn service following a night in which videos circulating online showed police officers using batons on peaceful demonstrators.De Blasio told reporters he had not seen the footage but defended how the curfew was
  
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• Large hydroxychloroquine study is retracted

  04-06-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "A first-year statistics major could tell you about major flaws in the design of the analysis," one expert said.
  
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• George Washington University Law School Faculty Tried To Get Bill Barr’s Honorary Degree Revoked

  04-06-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Faculty members at George Washington University Law School pushed this week for the school to rescind the honorary degree it had bestowed upon alumnus Bill Barr following the Attorney General’s efforts to clamp down on protests in the nation’s capital, sources tell The Daily Beast. The push, which one source described as “serious,” was met by opposition from other members who argued that Barr’s actions—while aggressive and controversial—did not meri
  
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• Grassley vows to block Trump nominees over watchdog firings

  04-06-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says he is blocking two Trump administration nominees until the White House provides adequate reasons for the termination of two inspectors general.The Iowa senator, a longtime advocate for the watchdog role of inspectors general, pledged to block Senate consideration of Christopher Miller to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center and Marshall Billingslea to be undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, indefinitely.Grassley h
  
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• US Air Force relaunches effort to replace MQ-9 Reaper drone

  04-06-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's take two as the service reaches out to industry for more info on technologies for building a new combat drone.
  
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• Dyson poured $629 million into an electric car before abandoning it — here's what its Tesla competitor was supposed to look like

  04-06-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New images released by the British design firm show a futuristic Tesla competitor that ultimately was scrapped due to high costs.
  
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• Houston's police chief wins national praise — but faces local anger over shootings

  04-06-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chief Art Acevedo has been lauded for marching with protesters. But on Tuesday, some of them confronted him over his record on police violence.
  
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• Study on safety of malaria drugs for coronavirus retracted

  04-06-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several authors of a large study that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs for coronavirus patients have retracted the report, saying independent reviewers were not able to verify information that’s been widely questioned by other scientists.Thursday’s retraction in the journal Lancet involved a May 22 report on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs long used for preventing or treating malaria but whose safety and effectiveness for COVID-19 are unknown.The study leaders als
  
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• Barr defends use of non-identified officers in D.C. as Democrats demand answers

  04-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats have called for a special prosecutor to look into Attorney General William Barr’s handling of law enforcement’s attack on protesters.
  
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• Under questioning, Barr says Trump's Bible photo op was 'entirely appropriate'

  04-06-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that it was “entirely appropriate” to forcibly remove protesters from the area surrounding the White House ahead of President Trump’s seemingly impromptu photo opportunity in front of St. John’s Church.
  
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• Republican senator says she's 'struggling' with supporting Donald Trump as protests continue

  04-06-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump was facing questions about whether military chiefs fully back his handling of the anti-racism protests on Thursday after an excoriating rebuke by his former defence secretary gained the public support of a Republican senator. The US president tried to wave away a searing critique by Jim Mattis, his Pentagon chief until December 2018, by claiming he fired Mr Mattis - who resigned over Syria policy disagreements - and calling him “the world’s most overrated general”.
  
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• Russia Declares Emergency Following Spill of 20,000 Tons of Oil in the Arctic Circle

  04-06-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin was shocked to discover local authorities only learned about the incident two days after it happened—from social media.
  
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• Cowboy 3 e-bike arrives with new transmission and smart app features

  04-06-2020 22:06
  
  Belgian company Cowboy has announced Cowboy 3, the third-generation version of its electric bicycle. The Cowboy 3 brings a number of improvements over the previous generation and launches alongside an updated companion app that packs new smart features. The company promises a more comfortable ride from its new model, one that includes more durability, faster climbing, and more. Electric bicycles … Continue reading
  
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• Epic Games Store’s next free game is a surprise

  04-06-2020 22:05
  
  Several weeks ago, a very interesting leak detailed a number of upcoming free games for the Epic Games Store. The leak went largely unnoticed at first, but after it correctly predicted that Grand Theft Auto V and Civilization VI would be offered, people started to pay more attention to it. That leak predicted the third free game – Borderlands: The … Continue reading
  
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• Ponzi king Bernie Madoff's bid for early release rejected by judge

  04-06-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The judge said he'd reviewed public statements made by Madoff, 82, and found they “show that he has never fully accepted responsibility for his actions and that he even faults his victims."
  
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• Active-duty troops deployed to DC region start to leave

  04-06-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several hundred active-duty troops brought in to help if needed with the civil unrest in the nation’s capitol are leaving Washington, D.C. Thursday, just a day after their initially planned departure was abruptly delayed.The soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division have been kept at military bases outside the city, and will now return to Fort Bragg, N.C., according to a defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss impending troop movements.The official said Defense Secr
  
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• Utah Guard Sends Green Berets to DC to Assist in Civil Unrest Response

  04-06-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  So far, about 32,400 Guard troops have been activated in 32 states and in D.C. to support the civil unrest response.
  
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• Amy Cooper: Central Park dog walker who called police on black man has pet returned

  04-06-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amy Cooper has got her dog back 10 days after she gave it up following a public outcry over her calling the police on a black man in Central Park.In a video of the 25 May incident, Cooper claimed in a phone call to police that bird watcher Christian Cooper was threatening her life - after he’d asked her to place a leash on her dog.
  
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• iPhone 12 Pro leaks usher in new set, with all prices

  04-06-2020 21:55
  
  Today we’re taking a look a seemingly release date-ready lineup for the iPhone 12 and friends. These devices will likely be called iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Max, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Based on our latest available leaked info and insider tips from the past several weeks, we’re able to outline four individual smartphones, each with their … Continue reading
  
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• Grassley Says He Will Hold Up Trump Appointees Until Admin. Gives Explanation for Fired Watchdogs

  04-06-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said Thursday that he would block the confirmation of two Trump appointees over unanswered questions about the administration’s firing of two inspectors general, on the grounds that the White House has failed its legal requirement “to provide clear reasons” for the removals.Grassley said his refusal to advance the nominations of Christopher Miller as head of the National Counterterrorism Center and Marshall Billingslea as undersecretary for arm
  
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• Pentagon intelligence employees raise concerns about supporting domestic surveillance amid protests

  04-06-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The government’s increasingly militarized response to nationwide protests has sparked concern among employees of a Pentagon intelligence agency, who fear they might be compelled to help conduct surveillance on American demonstrators, sources tell Yahoo News.
  
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• Breaking with party, GOP senator says rebuke of Trump 'necessary'

  04-06-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Republican senator broke with her party Thursday to describe a former Pentagon chief's searing rebuke of Donald Trump as "necessary and overdue," and revealed she was struggling with whether to support the US president's re-election. Lisa Murkowski's comments marked a major break with Trump within the Republican camp, which has largely held together through various crises including his impeachment process and the president's current threat to use military force against protesters. Murkowski wa
  
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• Esper orders hundreds of troops from 82nd Airborne home from D.C. area

  04-06-2020 21:44 via politico.com
  
  This is the second time this week Esper has ordered the troops to head home.
  
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