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• Jesse Jackson says white Americans are finally 'awakening' to the nation's racial crisis

  08-06-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For decades “white America tolerated lynching,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said. After George Floyd's death “white people feel embarrassed," he said.
  
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• Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said an anonymous Ben Lomond resident helped make the arrest of Steven Carrillo, the suspect accused of ambush shooting deputies.

  08-06-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A resident who wants to remain anonymous helped tackle the suspect who was armed with an AR-15, pipe bomb and pistol, the sheriff said in a press conference Monday.
  
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• Biden meets privately Monday with George Floyd's family before funeral

  08-06-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden met privately Monday with the family of George Floyd, whose death led to nationwide protests for racial justice.
  
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• At least 12 COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania have been tied to Jersey Shore house parties, officials say

  08-06-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pennsylvania's Bucks County Department of Health said on Saturday that at least 12 new cases in the state can be tied to one New Jersey resident.
  
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• Feds Charge Branden Wolfe, 23, in Connection With Minneapolis Police Station Fire

  08-06-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal authorities on announced Monday that a 23-year-old man has been charged in connection to to the March 28 fire set to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station during protests over the police killing of George Floyd. Branden Wolfe, of St. Paul, was charged with aiding and abetting arson at the police station after admitting the authorities he had been in the building, took property, and pushed a wooden barrel into the fire, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District
  
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• Air Force C-130 Hits Wall, Catches Fire During Iraq Night Landing; Crew Safe

  08-06-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules collided with a wall and caught fire at Camp Taji, Iraq.
  
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• This Creepy Cosmic Radio Burst Repeats Every 157 Days. Where Is It Coming From?

  08-06-2020 23:39 via popularmechanics.com
  
  We can't rule out aliens.
  
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• Virginia has the most Confederate memorials in the country, but that might change

  08-06-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some Richmond leaders argue that all monuments to Confederate leaders in the city should come down and that streets and highways named after them should be renamed.
  
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• George Floyd murder suspect Derek Chauvin has bail set at $1.25m

  08-06-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ex-policeman Derek Chauvin is accused of murdering the unarmed black man by kneeling on his neck.
  
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• Black Lives Matter: Ghana protest leader arrested

  08-06-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ernesto Yeboah's lawyer says that charges that he breached rules about gatherings were "baseless".
  
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• Protesters in Smithtown met by large group of counter protesters

  08-06-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters in Smithtown were met by a large group of counter protesters Sunday, as police tried to quell the tension and prevent violence.
  
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• KKK leader drove vehicle into crowd of peaceful protesters, prosecutor says

  08-06-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An “admitted” Ku Klux Klan leader has been arrested and is being investigated for hate crime charges after he allegedly drove through peaceful protesters occupying a Virginia highway, prosecutors have said.Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor said in a statement that Harry Rogers was driving recklessly in the vicinity of the protest, he then proceeded to drive up to the protesters, revved his engine and then drove into the group.
  
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• Prince Andrew ‘falsely portraying himself as eager to cooperate’ in Epstein investigation, US lawyer says

  08-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prince Andrew has tried to “falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to cooperate”, according to a US lawyer involved in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.His comments came after the Duke of York’s lawyers claimed the prince had offered to serve as a witness at least three times this year.
  
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• Prince Andrew ‘falsely portraying himself as eager to cooperate’ in Epstein investigation, US lawyer say

  08-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prince Andrew has tried to “falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to cooperate”, according to a US lawyer involved in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.His comments came after the Duke of York’s lawyers claimed the prince had offered to serve as a witness at least three times this year.
  
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• Flights Stopped at Hill Air Force Base After F-35A's Landing Gear Collapses

  08-06-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The pilot was able to evacuate the aircraft "and is undergoing a routine medical evaluation."
  
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• White House: 'No regrets' on clearing protesters from Lafayette Square for Trump photo op

  08-06-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended last week’s widely condemned move to violently disperse peaceful protesters from a park so that President Trump could walk to a church and pose there holding a Bible.
  
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• Schiff demands answers from Pentagon on monitoring domestic unrest

  08-06-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Adam Schiff wrote the Pentagon Monday expressing concerns that the Defense Department might be involved in “unlawful or unethical activities” in response to recent nationwide protests.
  
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• Man accused of terror plot seeks to withdraw guilty plea

  08-06-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Coast Guard lieutenant accused of plotting politically motivated killings inspired by a far-right mass murderer asked a federal appeals court on Monday to let him withdraw his guilty plea or else throw out his sentence of more than 13 years in prison.In a court filing, a defense attorney argued that Christopher Hasson’s 160-month prison term was roughly four times longer than sentencing guidelines would have called for if U.S. District Judge George Hazel had not mistakenly applied
  
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• Hong Kong seethes one year on, but protesters on the back foot

  08-06-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hong Kong on Tuesday marks a year since pro-democracy protests erupted, but a resumption of city-wide unrest is unlikely as activists reel from mass arrests, coronavirus bans on public gatherings and a looming national security law.Seven months of massive and often violent rallies kicked off on June 9 last year when huge crowds took to the streets to oppose a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China.Student groups and unions have also announced plans to canvas members over possible strike ac
  
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• Weekend of violence lashes Mexico, sparks dispute

  08-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After a weekend of drug-gang killings left almost three dozen people dead in the industrial state of Guanajuato, Mexico’s president cited it Monday as an example of “neoliberal polices that have been a resounding failure.”A group of men attacked a drug rehabilitation center in Irapuato, Guanajuato on Saturday and killed 10 people there, but those were just part of 34 murders committed in the state over the weekend.“During the whole neoliberal period Guanajuato has grown b
  
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• A Philadelphia police officer smacked a protester in the head with a metal baton. His police union is selling T-shirts defending him.

  08-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joseph Bologna has been charged with aggravated assault for beating a protester with a metal baton. "Bologna Strong" T-shirts go on sale Tuesday.
  
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• Biden's 'compassion' meant world to Floyd family: lawyer

  08-06-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden met with Floyd's relatives in Houston for more than an hour, said lawyer Benjamin Crump, who posted a picture of himself on Twitter after the meeting with Biden, Floyd's uncle Roger, civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton and Representative Cedric Richmond."He listened, heard their pain, and shared in their woe," Crump said of the private meeting."That compassion meant the world to this grieving family."
  
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• Falwell apologizes for tweet that included racist photo

  08-06-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. apologized Monday for a tweet that included a racist photo that appeared on Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page decades ago.“After listening to African American LU leaders and alumni over the past week and hearing their concerns, I understand that by tweeting an image to remind all of the governor’s racist past I actually refreshed the trauma that image had caused and offended some by using the image to make a political poi
  
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• Mourners gather to honor George Floyd as push to reform U.S. police intensifies

  08-06-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congressional Democrats wearing African kente cloths knelt in silence Monday in tribute to George Floyd before unveiling sweeping legislation to combat police violence and racial injustice.(House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying):"We cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change."The Democrats’ bill comes amid increasing pressure for dramatic changes to policing after two weeks of mass protests - sparked by the death of Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer
  
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• Ku Klux Klan leader drove truck into crowd of peaceful protesters, Virginia officials say

  08-06-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “We lived through this in Charlottesville in 2017," Henrico Commonwealth Attorney Shannon Taylor said. "This egregious criminal act will not go unpunished.”
  
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• Judge dismisses lawsuit against Michigan governor over coronavirus orders

  08-06-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman in Detroit said on Friday the U.S. Constitution's ban on federal lawsuits by citizens against states barred the Michigan plaintiffs from suing Whitmer in her role as governor.Friedman also said the case had become moot, and the idea that Whitmer might reimpose restrictions was "pure speculation."The plaintiffs, including a landscaper and a married couple who had been unable to travel between their two homes, claimed that Whitmer's orders deprived them of due
  
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• Coronavirus shutdowns prevented 60 million infections in the USA, study says

  08-06-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The report looked at lockdown measures in other countries, including China, South Korea, Italy, Iran and France.
  
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• America Is Using Its Navy to Deter China Around Taiwan and the Spratly Islands

  08-06-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  How do these partrols work?
  
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• Joe Biden won't support defunding the police as part of his 2020 campaign message

  08-06-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden supports police-community engagement, greater police department diversity, and the use of body-worn cameras
  
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• Coronavirus economy: What can 2008 recession teach us about this one?

  08-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What lessons must we learn from 12 years ago to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past?
  
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• Business of Pride: How LGBTQ Pride Month went from movement to marketing

  08-06-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and in the past 50 years, it has grown into a massive money-making machine with an estimated 1,500 Pride events globally.
  
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• U.S. sanctions imposed on Iranian shipping network over proliferation take effect

  08-06-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran's shipping network took effect on Monday, months after they were announced in December following accusations of supporting proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement on Monday warned commercial and maritime industries, governments and others that they risked U.S. sanctions if they did business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and its Shanghai-based subsidiary, E-Sail Shipping Company.The S
  
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• Guard Won’t Punish Soldiers Who Took a Knee at Protests

  08-06-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  But Army leaders are reminding troops of the rules regarding demonstration in uniform.
  
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• Trump fumes after CNN poll finds 7-point drop in approval in one month, Biden leading by 14

  08-06-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president has regularly attacked news organizations when he does not like poll results, even though they are generally conducted by third parties.
  
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• McEnany bashes Romney for supporting Black Lives Matter movement

  08-06-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday criticized Sen. Mitt Romney for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement after he marched with demonstrators in Washington, D.C.
  
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• Canada border opens to foreign families of Canadians

  08-06-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of foreign nationals will be able to reunite with their families in Canada after the government in Ottawa moved Monday to exempt them from its travel ban.In late May, a deal was reached with the United States to extend the closure of their shared border but still allow a select few, including health care workers, to cross back and forth until at least June 21."This is an incredibly difficult time to be apart from a spouse or a child or mom and dad," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told r
  
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• The LAPD won't stop traumatizing black Angelenos until it abandons its 'warrior culture'

  08-06-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many great cops understand the proper role of police in communities, but they are a minority, both within the LAPD and across the country.
  
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• WHO Says Transmission by Asymptomatic Covid Patients ‘Very Rare’

  08-06-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spread of the coronavirus by asymptomatic patients is "very rare," the World Health Organization said Monday, calling into question research that suggested asymptomatic cases could be spreading the disease on a large scale.“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who leads the WHO’s diseases and zoonosis unit, during a press briefing in Geneva, where WHO
  
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• Tennessee sheriff apologizes after using racial slur in recording

  08-06-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Lauderdale County sheriff issued an apology after he admitted it was his voice caught on a recent recording using a racial slur in a conversation about a case.
  
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• Boris Johnson told to give legally-binding Huawei 5G exit date or face Commons defeat

  08-06-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson must provide a legally-binding date to strip Huawei from Britain's 5G network or face a Commons defeat, senior Tory MPs have warned. Conservatives are pressing for a concrete pledge by the Government within the next two months, while crucial legislation is expected to go through Parliament. Writing in The Telegraph, Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Bob Seely said: "Parliament is feeling increasingly restless about the UK's dependency on China. More and more legislators are recognising tha
  
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• Biden campaign announces LGBTQ steering committee

  08-06-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Out for Biden” brings together a coalition of activists and politicians to pursue America’s 11 million estimated LGBTQ eligible voters.
  
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• Fauci is "Very Concerned" That George Floyd Protests Will Spread Coronavirus

  08-06-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “It’s a difficult situation. We have the right to peacefully demonstrate and the demonstrators are exercising that right.”
  
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• Analysis: Why the Government introduced quarantine despite their own scientists' doubts

  08-06-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was in late March that it first emerged Priti Patel was pressing for quarantine to restrict arrivals coming to the UK from high-risk countries like Iran, the US and China but it was not until late last month that it was officially announced. Home Office figures show 18.1 million people entered the UK between January 1 and end of March without any health checks, including people from coronavirus hotspot countries. Of these, just 273 were quarantined and as many as 20,000 infected people may ha
  
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• George Floyd murder suspect Chauvin granted bail at $1.25m

  08-06-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The white police officer is accused of killing the black man whose death sparked global protests.
  
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• Florida chapter of Fraternal Order of Police tells disciplined, jailed cops 'we are hiring'

  08-06-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Fraternal Order of Police chapter is being criticized for a Facebook post telling the "Buffalo 57" and "Atlanta 6" to join local police departments.
  
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• George Floyd: What we know about the officers charged over his death

  08-06-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Files show two of the Minneapolis officers charged over George Floyd's death were days into the job.
  
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• UK's Johnson says emotions triggered by Floyd's death can not be ignored

  08-06-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the emotions triggered by the death of George Floyd in the United States could not be ignored, and the British government had to do more to fight prejudice towards people from black and minority ethnic groups.The death of Floyd, an unarmed African American, has sparked demonstrations around the world over police brutality.More than 100,000 people took part in anti-racism protests around Britain over the weekend.
  
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• Hurricane season off to historically fast start: What does that mean for the rest of the year?

  08-06-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With Tropical Storm Cristobal's landfall along the Gulf Coast on Sunday, the 2020 hurricane season is off to a historically fast start.
  
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• Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia to resume dam talks Tuesday

  08-06-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia will resume negotiations on Tuesday over the filling of a controversial mega-dam Addis Ababa is building over the Nile, Khartoum said.Irrigation and water ministers from the three Nile basin countries will meet via videoconference, Sudan's irrigation ministry said in a statement."Three observers from the United States, the European Union and South Africa will attend," it added.
  
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• Tesla's China sales tripled from April to May as the world's largest auto market staged a surprise turnaround

  08-06-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China bucked a nearly year-long decline in monthly auto sales by posting an uptick in May as the country recovers from the coronavirus.
  
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