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• Forrest Fenn confirms $1m treasure chest found in Rocky Mountains after decade-long hunt

  07-06-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The decade-long hunt for a treasure chest containing $1m (£790,000) in gold and jewels has ended with its discovery in the Rocky Mountains.Art dealer Forrest Fenn sparked the search for the loot after publishing clues pointing to its location in his 2010 autobiography “The Thrill of the Chase.”
  
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• Black Lives Matter co-founder explains what 'defund the police' actually means

  07-06-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The demand is a major step that combines rerouting funds from police departments and redistributing duties within community groups.
  
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• AG Barr says pepper spray 'is not a chemical irritant.' But the company that makes pepper-spraying balls says otherwise.

  07-06-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to PepperBall company, their products contain "a proprietary chemical irritant that's proven more effective from even greater distances."
  
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• Biden to meet with George Floyd's family before funeral

  07-06-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden plans to travel to Houston to meet with the family of George Floyd and will provide a video message for Floyd's funeral service.A Biden aide on Sunday described the plans of the Democratic presidential candidate.Biden expects to give the family his condolences, said the aide, who discussed Biden's plans on condition of anonymity.
  
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• Trump drifts from constitution, former military chief warns

  07-06-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colin Powell, who served as America's top military officer and top diplomat under Republican presidents, said Sunday he will vote for Democrat Joe Biden, accusing Donald Trump of drifting from the US constitution and Republicans of failing to hold him accountable.In a scathing indictment of Trump on CNN, Powell denounced the US president as a danger to democracy whose lies and insults have diminished America in the eyes of the world.
  
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• Fact check: It is not a felony for Virginia concealed-carry permit holders to wear masks

  07-06-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Online confusion about state law on face coverings included how a state of emergency affected rules about concealing one's identity.
  
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• Coronavirus news and updates: Global deaths top 400K; US officials urge demonstrators to get tested; New York to allow in-person graduations

  07-06-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Global deaths top 400,000. U.S. officials urge demonstrators to get tested. NY to allow in-person graduations. The latest coronavirus news.
  
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• Cool off with this 350-square-foot portable air conditioner for $300 - CNET

  07-06-2020 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As temperatures start to rise, self-isolate in comfort while saving $70.
  
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• National Weather Service confirms tornadoes in Orlando area

  07-06-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Video of the tornado shared on social media showed a funnel cloud leaving a path of destruction.
  
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• US Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for NYPD to be defunded

  07-06-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The call to defund police departments in the wake of the George Floyd protests has support from a high-profile voice in the US House of Representatives.New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voiced her support for reducing and redirecting police department funds as a way to address systemic racism and excessive use of force in law enforcement agencies.
  
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• Local lockdowns could see entire cities placed back under strict regulations

  07-06-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Local lockdowns could see entire cities placed back under strict regulations, Matt Hancock has said. The Health Secretary said if there were to be a spike in the number of infections in a particular city, the Government’s starting point would be “to find a much more localised area within a part of a city”. Mr Hancock said the aim would be to spot the virus spread early on in order to “get quite a localised area of the outbreak”. “The focus is to get as early a
  
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• Local coronavirus lockdowns could see cities put back under restrictions

  07-06-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Local lockdowns could see cities placed back under strict regulations, Matt Hancock has said. The Health Secretary said that, if there were to be a spike in the number of infections in a particular city, the Government’s starting point would be "to find a much more localised area within a part of a city". Mr Hancock said the aim would be to spot the virus spread early on in order to "get quite a localised area of the outbreak". "The focus is to get as early as possible, as local as possibl
  
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• Chile coronavirus death toll jumps sharply after new cases added

  07-06-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chile revised its death toll linked to the novel coronavirus outbreak sharply higher on Sunday, adding fatalities from databases that previously had not been included.Health Minister Jaime Mañalich said 653 additional deaths linked to COVID-19 had to be counted, bringing the total number to 2,290.Chile has one of the highest numbers of cases in Latin America, which has become an epicenter of the pandemic even as countries worldwide have begun to reopen.
  
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• Naval Academy alumni board member resigns after accidentally broadcasting racial slurs

  07-06-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scott Bethmann resigned from his position Saturday after a video broadcast him and his wife speaking about the Black Lives Matter movement with racist comments and racial slurs.
  
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• Embattled NY Times Opinions Editor James Bennet Resigns After Staff Revolt

  07-06-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Times opinion editor James Bennet on Sunday announced that he has resigned, effectively immediately, following an internal revolt over Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” column published last week.The newspaper announced that Katie Kingsbury, will step in as an interim opinion page editor through the election; and that Bennet’s deputy editor Jim Dao is being reassigned back to the newsroom.In a statement, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said: &ldqu
  
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• Embattled NY Times Opinion Editor James Bennet Resigns After Staff Revolt

  07-06-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Times opinion editor James Bennet on Sunday announced that he has resigned, effectively immediately, following an internal revolt over Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” column published last week.The newspaper announced that Katie Kingsbury will step in as an interim opinion page editor through the election; and that Bennet’s deputy editor Jim Dao is being reassigned back to the newsroom.In a statement, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said: &ldquo
  
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• When protesters cry 'defund the police,' what does it mean?

  07-06-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters are pushing to “defund the police" over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement.Supporters say it isn’t about eliminating police departments or stripping agencies of all of their money.“Why can’t we look at how it is that we reorganize our priorities, so people don’t have to be in the streets during a national pandemic?" Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza asked during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press
  
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• Tropical Storm Cristobal to make landfall in Louisiana after spawning tornado in Orlando

  07-06-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Cristobal is set to make landfall in Louisiana late on Sunday with the potential to cause widespread flooding as heavy rains batter the Gulf Coast.The storm has already spawned a tornado in Central Florida and more could form in parts of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi as Cristobal moves northwards.
  
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• 80% of Americans feel that the country is 'out of control' these days, new poll finds

  07-06-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll comes amid protests over George Floyd's death, more than 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, and an uncertain economy.
  
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• Democrats' legislation would overhaul police accountability

  07-06-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats are proposing to overhaul legal protections for police, create a national database of excessive-force episodes and ban police choke holds in legislation coming Monday in response to the deaths of black Americans at the hands of law enforcement, according to a draft outline obtained by The Associated Press.“We’re in a real moment in our country,” Rep. Karen Bass, D-Ca., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,"
  
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• India's bodybuilders flex muscles, call for gyms to open

  07-06-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gym owners and trainers in several Indian cities held protests over the weekend against a ban on opening fitness centres over fears of spreading the coronavirus, even as many lockdown restrictions are set to ease."We are running in losses for last three months and there is no clarity when the government plans to open the gyms," Amritsar Gym Owners Association's president, Dharminder Verma, told AFP on Sunday.Gym owners were still paying rent and staff salaries despite being shut, Verma said.
  
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• Treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains finally found

  07-06-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables worth more than $1 million and hidden a decade ago somewhere in the Rocky Mountain wilderness has been found, according to a famed art and antiquities collector who created the treasure hunt. Forrest Fenn, 89, told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Sunday that a man who did not want his name released — but was from “back East” — located the chest a few days ago and the discovery was confirmed by a photograph the man s
  
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• Tropical Storm Cristobal path moving closer to Gulf Coast; landfall expected today

  07-06-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Cristobal was expected to make landfall Sunday along the Louisiana coast with flooding rain, dangerous storm surge and blustery winds.
  
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• Disney World's resort hotels return June 22 from COVID-19 shutdown: Here's what to expect

  07-06-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Disney Resort hotels are reopening on June 22, a few weeks ahead of the return of Walt Disney World on July 11. Here's what to expect if you visit.
  
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• Hillary Clinton questions how 'anybody with a beating heart and a working mind' can still support Trump after disastrous coronavirus and protest response

  07-06-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out about her 2016 presidential rival Donald Trump, calling his time in office a "failure" and questioning how anyone could continue to support him.Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Ms Clinton lashed out at President Donald Trump, criticising his leadership and characterising him as uncaring and incompetent.
  
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• Not just George Floyd: Police departments have 400-year history of racism

  07-06-2020 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From slave patrols to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter social justice movement, police departments have long been seen as anti-black.
  
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• Amid pandemic, Iran doubles down on social media 'modesty,' arrests hundreds

  07-06-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As authorities in Iran crack down on social media users, young people are mired not only in a pandemic but also a growing cultural battle.
  
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• Democrats grapple with U.S. protesters' demand to defund the police

  07-06-2020 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Democrats have largely embraced the activists packing into streets nationwide to decry the killings of black men and women by law enforcement but so far express wariness at protesters' calls to defund the police.Senator Cory Booker said during an interview Sunday on NBC News that he understood the sentiment behind the "defund the police" push but would not use that phrase."We are over-policed as a society," he said, adding that spending on police departments was not solving problems.
  
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• Storm Cristobal slows advance, dropping heavy rains on Louisiana

  07-06-2020 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Cristobal on Sunday slowed its advance through the Gulf of Mexico, bringing a coastal storm surge, high winds and rain to southeast Louisiana, where it is expected make landfall later today.The storm was about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, at 1 p.m. on Sunday and moving at north at about 5 miles per hour.It is not expected to become a hurricane but will drop up to 12 inches (30 cm) of rain in some areas as bands move through the central and eastern Gulf Coas
  
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• Quarantine policy to be decided in court as 500 travel and hospitality firms attempt to stop restrictions

  07-06-2020 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson’s quarantine policy is set to be decided in court with more than 500 travel and hospitality businesses expected on Monday to join a legal bid by airlines to reverse the restrictions. A new group called Quash Quarantine, which includes major names such as hotelier Sir Rocco Forte, will announce how it plans to stop the policy in its tracks, with options including backing a judicial review or seeking its own injunction. They claim the quarantine rule — which comes into fo
  
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• YouTube reschedules virtual graduation with Obamas, Lady Gaga - CNET

  07-06-2020 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Celebration was postponed out of respect for George Floyd's memorial service.
  
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• Emmett Till's lynching ignited a civil rights movement. Historians say George Floyd's death could do the same

  07-06-2020 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many protesting the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have invoked the name of Emmett Till, who was lynched in 1955, to demand change.
  
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• Colin Powell calls Trump a liar, says he skirts the Constitution, will vote Biden

  07-06-2020 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several other former military leaders condemned the president during appearances on the Sunday shows.
  
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• India sends 'man-eater' tiger to lifetime in captivity

  07-06-2020 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A tiger blamed for killing three people will spend the rest of its life in captivity, Indian officials said Sunday, saying the big cat was "too dangerous" to be allowed to roam free.The five-year-old male predator, also blamed for attacking cattle, had embarked on a trek more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) long from western Maharashtra state to central India's Betul district in Madhya Pradesh state in 2018."We gave it several chances to re-wild but it habitually went into human habitations," Ma
  
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• Colin Powell says Trump rhetoric 'dangerous for our democracy,' will vote for Biden

  07-06-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colin Powell, a retired four-star Army general, joins a growing list of former senior military officials who have denounced Trump
  
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• Giuliani on push to ‘defund the police’

  07-06-2020 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’
  
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• Iran says it is ready for more prisoner exchanges with U.S.

  07-06-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael White, a U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran since 2018, was freed last Thursday as part of a deal in which the United States allowed Iranian-American physician Majid Taheri to visit Iran - a rare instance of U.S.-Iranian cooperation.White’s release came two days after the United States deported Sirous Asgari, an Iranian professor imprisoned in the United States despite having being acquitted of stealing trade secrets.
  
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• US Attorney General Barr says there is racism in US but denies that 'the law enforcement system is systemically racist'

  07-06-2020 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Barr joins other administration officials, including HUD Secretary Ben Carson and national security adviser Robert O'Brien, who made similar comments.
  
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• Palestinian Islamic Jihad group buries ex-leader in Damascus

  07-06-2020 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad buried its former leader Ramadan Shalah in Syria Sunday, an AFP correspondent said, a day after he died in neighbouring Lebanon.The 62-year-old died in a Beirut hospital before his body was transported across the border to Syria, a Palestinian source said.Shalah led Iran-backed Islamic Jihad from 1995 until 2018 when he was replaced by his deputy Ziad al-Nakhala.
  
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• Black Lives Matter protesters in the UK toppled a 125-year-old slave trader statue and sank it in a river

  07-06-2020 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cheers and applause from protestors accompanied the toppling of the controversial statue of Edward Colston, a former slave trader.
  
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• 2020 election: Trump support leaky in Midwest strongholds which clinched his 2016 victory as Biden gains

  07-06-2020 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Recent polling in Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin suggests Donald Trump is trailing 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in many of the midwestern states that propelled the president to victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 by razor thin margins.Mr Trump’s 2016 triumphs in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, which he won by a combined 77,744 votes, were enough to swing the electoral college in his favour even though he lost the nationwide popular tally by nearly 3m votes.
  
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• Libya's unity forces in battle to retake strategic Sirte

  07-06-2020 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fighters loyal to Libya's UN-recognised government Sunday kept up their counter-offensive against forces of strongman Khalifa Haftar, but fighting stalled on the outskirts of the strategic city of Sirte.The Mediterranean coastal city -- the home of former dictator Moamer Kadhafi who was ousted and killed in a 2011 NATO-backed uprising -- is also a key gateway to the country's major oil fields in the east, still held by pro-Haftar forces.The Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) base
  
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• This dual dashcam is $80 off and has never been cheaper - CNET

  07-06-2020 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Vantrue N2 dashcam has Father's Day written all over it.
  
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• CDC warns sniffing disinfectants and bleaching skin won’t prevent COVID-19

  07-06-2020 18:58
  
  Many people are experiencing health anxiety related to the COVID-19 pandemic and adopting enhanced hygiene practices in an effort to avoid contracting the novel coronavirus. The CDC has looked into the best preventative practices and detailed them in a new report, but has also found that some people are taking extreme, dangerous measures in a futile effort to protect themselves. … Continue reading
  
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• UN says 'encouraged' by Libyan calls to resume peace talks

  07-06-2020 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations on Sunday said it was encouraged by calls to resume talks on ending the conflict in Libya, a day after Egypt announced a unilateral peace initiative supported by the eastern Libyan camp.The U.N. support mission in Libya said the fighting over the capital, Tripoli, for more than a year “has proven, beyond any doubt, that any war among Libyans is a losing war.”The statement urged Libyan parties to “engage swiftly and constructively” in the U.N.-brokered m
  
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• Re-energized Tropical Storm Cristobal bears down on U.S. Gulf Coast

  07-06-2020 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency to prepare for the storm’s possible arrival.
  
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• Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader buried in Syria

  07-06-2020 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement was laid to rest Sunday in the Syrian capital Damascus, a day after he died following a long illness.Ramadan Shallah was on the U.S. “most wanted list” of terrorist suspects with a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction.Hundreds of people attended the funeral of Shallah, who had been in a coma for more than three years after heart surgery.
  
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• Deputy killed in California ambush by Air Force sergeant

  07-06-2020 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Northern California sheriff’s deputy was killed and two law enforcement officers wounded Saturday when they were ambushed with gunfire and explosives while pursuing a suspect, authorities said.The U.S. Air Force confirmed Sunday that the suspect was an active duty sergeant stationed at Travis Air Force Base.Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was shot and killed in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated area near Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said.
  
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• Criminals stealing unemployment benefits as claims surge

  07-06-2020 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Criminals are seizing on a surge in job losses to steal unemployment benefits from Americans nationwide.This complicates an already tough situation for millions of financially strapped Americans and overwhelmed state unemployment offices.While there’s no exact measure of how many fraudulent claims have been made, states from Washington to Maine say they’ve seen an increase and numerous federal agencies are working to fight it.
  
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• 'A Long Time Coming': Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee Statue to Be Removed in Virginia

  07-06-2020 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Richmond leaders have also committed to taking down four other Confederate memorials in the city
  
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