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• Pelosi urges Congress to remove Confederate statues from U.S. Capitol

  10-06-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Congress on Wednesday to immediately take steps to remove from the U.S. Capitol 11 statues representing Confederate leaders and soldiers from the Civil War.It was the latest in a long list of high-profile killings of black men and women by U.S. police.
  
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• Pence says no rise in U.S. coronavirus cases seen yet due to protests

  10-06-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday there had been no sign yet of an increase in coronavirus cases from two weeks of nationwide protests over police misconduct and racism."What I can tell you is that, at this point, we don't see an increase in new cases now, nearly two weeks on from when the first protests took effect," Pence said in an interview on Fox Business Network.Protesters thronged the streets of U.S. cities and spread around the world following the May 25 death of a 46-year
  
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• White House balks, again, at Bolton plan to publish memoir

  10-06-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House has told former national security adviser John Bolton that the manuscript of his forthcoming memoir still contains classified material and could present a national security threat.John Eisenberg, a deputy White House counsel, wrote Bolton attorney Charles Cooper this week raising concerns that the manuscript for “The Room Where It Happened” still “contains classified information.”
  
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• Pompeo confidant emerges as enforcer in fight over watchdog’s firing

  10-06-2020 23:25 via politico.com
  
  "All roads seem to go through Mr. Bulatao," a Democratic congressional aide said.
  
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• Young people turned out to protest. Now, will they vote?

  10-06-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Young adults have filled streets across the country on a scale not seen since the 1960s to protest for racial justice after the death of George Floyd. But whether that energy translates to increased turnout in November is another question.“In a normal election year, turning out the youth vote is challenging,” said Carolyn DeWitt, president and executive director of Rock the Vote, which works to build political power among young people.DeWitt said more people registered to vote throug
  
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• S&P 500 ends lower after Fed statement

  10-06-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Nasdaq continued its relentless climb to hit another record high, but the Dow and S&P 500 finished lower in a choppy session Wednesday. While the Federal Reserve reassured investors that it'll provide more support to the economy and keep rates low, it also forecast a 6.5% drop in economic growth this year and unemployment at a 9.3% rate.The Dow shed 1%, the S&P fell a half percent, but the Nasdaq closed above 10,000, adding two-thirds percent.Gerber Kawasaki CEO Ross Gerber praised F
  
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• Coronavirus live updates: U.S. cases top 2 million

  10-06-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here are the latest coronavirus updates from around the world.
  
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• Floyd’s Brother Pleads for Justice While GOP Says Cops Need More Cash

  10-06-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress’ first hearing about police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s murder was marked by raw and emotional testimony from his brother and some well-meaning words from members of both parties about working together to reform law enforcement in the U.S."The people elected you to speak for them, to make positive change. George’s name means something. You have the opportunity here to make your names mean something, too,” said Floyd’s brother, Philonise, in his
  
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• McEnany Reiterates Qualified-Immunity Reform Is a ‘Non-Starter’

  10-06-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany reiterated Wednesday that President Trump considers ending qualified immunity for police officers “a non-starter” as discussions about police reform continue in the wake of George Floyd’s death.McEnany’s comments come after she said Monday that qualified immunity — which shields cops from being sued in court for violating a civilian’s constitutional rights, unless their actions violated “clearly established fe
  
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• Monuments deemed racist topple in wake of George Floyd's killing

  10-06-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tracking the statues that have been taken down by governments or protesters during the worldwide protests.
  
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• Nikola's Badger Stakes Its Claim as the Cybertruck Killer

  10-06-2020 22:45 via popularmechanics.com
  
  The new electric pickup has a longer range than Tesla's eyesore.
  
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• Trump Writes In A Statement That He Will 'Not Even Consider' Renaming Army Bases Named After Confederate Officers

  10-06-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump Writes In A Statement That He Will 'Not Even Consider' Renaming Army Bases Named After Confederate Officers
  
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• Is international travel allowed yet? See when Jamaica, Bahamas, Austria plan to reopen borders

  10-06-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jamaica is preparing to welcome back international tourists June 15, while Austria requires negative coronavirus tests and won't allow direct flights.
  
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• Houston police chief: Communities of color need good policing

  10-06-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Houston police chief Art Acevedo cautions against defunding the police during congressional hearing on police reform.
  
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• Coronavirus infections appear to spike in U.S. even as they decline elsewhere

  10-06-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While many countries are seeing a decline in COVID-19 cases, infections in the United States appear to be spiking, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News.
  
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• Trump fails to correct Republican consultant who accused cable hosts of killing more black people than KKK

  10-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Republican consultant, while sitting a few feet from a silent Donald Trump, on Wednesday incorrectly accused two black journalists of killing more African Americans than the Klu Klux Klan.Raynard Jackson, during a White House event on race relations, was in the middle of slamming media outlets and journalists when he singled out CNN's Don Lemon and MSNBC's Joy Reid. Like Mr Jackson, both cable news hosts are black.
  
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• Professor says liberal college campuses could be breeding ground for Antifa ideology

  10-06-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump and several police officials have blamed Antifa for the recent looting and vandalism that have occurred amid peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd. Some experts say the most common place to find political correctness and Antifa is on college campuses.
  
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• Dan Bongino Goes Full ‘All Lives Matter’ During Congressional Hearing on Police Brutality

  10-06-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  George Floyd’s brother was among the witnesses invited by Democrats to speak at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on police brutality Wednesday morning. Republicans invited Fox News contributor Dan Bongino. Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent who has made several unsuccessful bids for Congress, used his opening statement to endorse the “few bad apples” theory of police misconduct. But by the time he was getting questioned by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), he was go
  
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• Yes, the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship Is Actually Getting Better

  10-06-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lots of upgrades have arrived.
  
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• Need to buy a face mask? Here's where to find them on sale

  10-06-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If you're looking for a face mask sale, we've compiled a list of 11 retailers who are offering discounts on these useful face coverings—find out more.
  
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• LaGuardia Airport just took the wraps off its newest terminal building designed to help revolutionize New York's worst airport — take a closer look

  10-06-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden once likened LaGuardia Airport to being in "some third-world country" due to its aging infrastructure.
  
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• PM vows IS will never again overrun Iraqi territory

  10-06-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State group will never again overrun Iraqi territory, Iraq’s prime minister vowed Wednesday in an official visit to northern Iraq.The visit by Mustafa al-Kadhimi came amid a recent increase in militant attacks and the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces in a planned drawdown.In Baghdad, a rocket struck a few hundred meters (yards) from the U.S. Embassy inside the capital's fortified Green Zone, according to a military statement, hours before the U.S. and Iraq are to hold hi
  
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• White House proposals on police reform being finalized, reduced immunity off table

  10-06-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House said on Wednesday it was putting the finishing touches on proposals to reform the police following George Floyd's killing while in police custody, but warned that reducing immunity for officers was a non-starter.Speaking at a White House briefing, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said administration plans to address protester concerns about police brutality were reaching "final edits," adding she hoped the proposals could be made public in the "coming days.""The president has spe
  
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• Louisville police release the Breonna Taylor incident report. It's nearly blank.

  10-06-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly three months after police fatally shot Breonna Taylor, the department has released the incident report. Except, it is almost entirely blank.
  
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• After military opens door, Trump rejects removing names of Confederate leaders from U.S. bases

  10-06-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump ruled out renaming U.S. military bases that are named for Confederate leaders on Wednesday even as NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from its races and Democrats sought the removal from Capitol Hill of statues of people representing the pro-slavery South in the 1860s Civil War.With Americans more conscious about race issues in the wake of the death of African American George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, Trump drew a line in favor of keeping the names of 10 m
  
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• Stepdad of 2 missing Idaho kids hid remains of children on property, police say

  10-06-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A criminal complaint said Chad Daybell "did willfully conceal and/or did aid and abet another to willfully conceal human remains."
  
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• Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie called out by opponent for displaying Confederate battle flag at home

  10-06-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie's staff did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails seeking comment on whether the flag is still hanging.
  
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• US general sees Baghdad keeping American troops in country

  10-06-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Iraqi government will want to keep a US military presence on its territory to fight the Islamic State group, a US general predicted Wednesday on the eve of strategic negotiations between the two governments."It is my belief that the government of Iraq is going to want to retain US and coalition forces," General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of US forces in the region, said in an online conference sponsored by a Washington think tank."And as you know, from my perspective, we're in Iraq to f
  
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• Top prosecutor overseeing Justice Department criminal division to depart

  10-06-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department's top prosecutor overseeing itscriminal division is leaving his post early next month, department officials announced on Wednesday.Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski will step down on July 3, the department said.President Donald Trump nominated the former Kirkland & Ellis law partner to the top Justice Department post in the criminal division, and he was later confirmed by the Senate in July 2018.
  
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• US coronavirus cases spike in fortnight since easing of lockdown measures

  10-06-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Birthday parties and funerals have been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases as figures showed 21 US states have seen a rise in cases since the country began easing lockdown restrictions. The number of Covid-19 cases has increased in 21 states in the last fortnight, when many states lifted restrictions to coincide with the three-day weekend for Memorial Day on May 25, according to analysis by the New York Times. Health officials warned that the US could be facing a second spike of the virus a
  
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• U.N. chief regrets North Korea decision to cut hotlines with South

  10-06-2020 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regrets that North Korea has severed hotlines with South Korea, warning that such channels "are necessary to avoid misunderstandings or miscalculations," a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday.Pyongyang's decision, announced by the KCNA state news agency on Tuesday, marks a new setback to stalled efforts to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric noted that June was a symbolic month representing the second anniversa
  
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• Elon Musk Wants to Make Sure Space X Gets to Mars

  10-06-2020 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was only a little over a week ago when SpaceX successfully launched two astronauts to the International Space Station, but the company’s CEO Elon Musk is already planning for the future. And this time, his eyes are squarely set on Mars.
  
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• US general: Taliban not yet met conditions for US withdrawal

  10-06-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Taliban have not yet met conditions required for a complete U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by next May as envisioned in a U.S.-Taliban deal signed in February, the commander overseeing U.S. forces there said Wednesday.Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said the U.S. is ahead of schedule for an initial drawdown by July to 8,600 troops.McKenzie stressed, however, that going to zero troops by May is dependent on conditions.
  
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• The human remains found in doomsday author Chad Daybell's yard belong to his missing stepchildren, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, their family says

  10-06-2020 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JJ Vallow, 7, and his sister Tylee Ryan, 17, were last seen in September. Their mother, Lori Vallow, was arrested in February.
  
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• Zimbabwe dismisses rumours of coup, says country stable

  10-06-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Zimbabwe's National Security Council (NSC) in a maiden news conference on Wednesday accused allies of the late former leader Robert Mugabe and some opposition officials of peddling rumours of an impending military coup and said the country was stable.Zimbabwe's worst economic crisis in more than a decade and rising public anger have stoked concern the military, which ended Mugabe's more than three-decades rule in November 2017, might step in again.The NSC is chaired by President Emmerson Mnangag
  
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• Tehran will execute an Iranian for spying for the United States and Israel

  10-06-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tehran said Tuesday it will execute an Iranian for spying for the United States and Israel after his conviction was upheld for helping the U.S. to locate a top Iranian general killed in a drone strike in January.
  
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• Pompeo Fired Me for ‘No Valid Reason,’ Inspector General Says

  10-06-2020 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick told Congress that he was “shocked” to find out President Trump decided to remove him from his post last month and said that senior officials in the State Department had consistently told him they were satisfied with the office’s work.“I can tell you… that I've been given no valid reason that would justify my removal,” Linick said, according to his interview transcripts released by multiple congressional
  
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• Officer in Breonna Taylor shooting accused of sexual assault

  10-06-2020 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "LMPD is aware of these allegations and investigators are looking into them," a spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department said.
  
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• Barr says he's 'very troubled' with what he's seen from Durham's investigation

  10-06-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reaction from former independent counsel Ken Starr.
  
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• AP Exclusive: Police officers' personal info leaked online

  10-06-2020 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Personal information of police officers in departments nationwide is being leaked online amid tense interactions at demonstrations across the U.S. over the police custody death of George Floydand others, according to an unclassified intelligence document from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, obtained by The Associated Press.The document warns that the effort, known as “doxxing,” could lead to attacks by “violent opportunists or domestic violent extremists” or cou
  
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• George Floyd: How an incorrect image ended up on the news

  10-06-2020 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A picture of a New York Jets player with the same name was shown to mourners at the service.
  
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• June is a big month for Xbox Game Pass

  10-06-2020 19:51
  
  Xbox Game Pass subscribers have a lot to look forward to in June, as Microsoft has detailed the games that will landing on the service throughout the month. We already had prior confirmation of June’s headliner, No Man’s Sky, but today, Microsoft confirmed that it’ll be landing on Game Pass tomorrow, June 11th. It’ll go live across the console and … Continue reading
  
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• Wealthy San Francisco homebuyers are fleeing the dense city and snatching up houses in the affluent wine country as remote work powers an exodus from city life

  10-06-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As tech firms continue to embrace work-from-home policies, it may not be as necessary to be located near corporate offices.
  
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• An abridged history of the Trump administration defending baseless claims

  10-06-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday sought to defend the president’s baseless claim that a 75-year-old man who was seen knocked to the ground by police in Buffalo, N.Y., last week during a protest over George Floyd’s death was a member of antifa and that the incident was “a setup.” Watch an abridged history of instances of President Trump and his administration attempting to use a similar defense.
  
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• Android 11 Beta just released for your phone, if it’s a Pixel 2+

  10-06-2020 19:39
  
  Today Google VP of Android Engineering Dave Burke revealed the update Android fans had been waiting for: Android 11 Beta. As of today, Android 11 Beta is available for a variety of smartphones (starting with Google Pixel 2 and newer). If you’d like to download this software, you’ll need to agree with Google on a set of rules, including but … Continue reading
  
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• ‘They Folded Like House of Cards’: McConnell Mocks NYT for Caving to Critics of Tom Cotton’s Op-ed

  10-06-2020 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday accused the New York Times of lying about the substance of Senator Tom Cotton's controversial op-ed for which the paper later apologized after an outcry from readers and Times journalists.During a floor speech, McConnell mocked the Times for bowing to criticism of the paper's decision to publish Cotton's opinion op-ed, titled “Send in the Troops,” which called for military intervention to
  
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• Just 27% of registered voters think President Donald Trump is a religious man, poll finds

  10-06-2020 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two out of five Evangelicals agreed President Donald Trump is religious, making them the subgroup with the highest percentage believing so in a new poll.
  
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• Jacksonville is front-runner for Trump convention speech

  10-06-2020 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jacksonville, Florida, is the front-runner to host the GOP celebration marking President Donald Trump’s acceptance of his party’s nomination to run for reelection, the Republican National Committee chairwoman said Wednesday.Ronna McDaniel said reports of a final decision were “definitely premature."
  
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• Eternal Darkness fixed with Windows 10 update

  10-06-2020 19:23
  
  You’ll want to take a peek at the latest Windows 10 security update this week, as it fixes a flaw with two names. One name for this latest and exis SMBGhost, the other is Eternal Darkness. A new patch from Microsoft is ready to roll to Windows 10 computers right this minute, if you’d like to take a gander and … Continue reading
  
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• S. Korea moves to stop anti-Northern activists

  10-06-2020 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Korea's government says it will take legal action against two organizations there who, it says, are endangering efforts to keep peace with the North -- efforts that have already seen a marked plunge in recent months.And it comes only a day after North Korea cited such groups to justify cutting some diplomatic channels, including daily phone calls.The two groups are called the Kuensaem Education Center and the Fighters for a Free North Korea.They're both run by people who defected from Nort
  
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