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• Brazil overtakes UK with world's second-highest Covid-19 death toll

  12-06-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tally published by coalition of news outlets compiling stats since Brazil’s health ministry was accused of seeking to conceal figuresBrazil has overtaken Britain as the country with the world’s second-highest Covid-19 death toll after a further 843 deaths pushed its total to 41,901.The tally was published on Friday night by a coalition of news outlets which has been compiling independent statistics since Brazil’s health ministry was accused of seeking to conceal the full figure
  
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• Head of Naval Aviation Schools Command, Another Navy Pilot Killed in Plane Crash

  12-06-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two naval aviators were killed when their civilian single-engine aircraft crashed in Alabama.
  
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• Former Chester County teacher arrested on sex assault charges

  12-06-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Chester County private school employee arrived back in Pennsylvania on Friday following his arrest on sexual assault charges in Florida.
  
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• U.S. unveils vision for more development in national forests

  12-06-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a memorandum to U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen, Perdue said more was needed to relieve burdensome regulations on industries and make federal forests and grasslands more productive."These lands are critical for the prosperity of rural communities, sustaining jobs and livelihoods in grazing, mining, oil and gas development, recreation and forestry," the letter said.
  
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• Old games, new content: Spider-man, GTAV, Destiny 2, now this is the way

  12-06-2020 23:24
  
  Over the last week we’ve become very aware of the fact that game developers are trying for a sea change. It might instead be that gamers are the ones that’ve made this change happen – maybe developers are only doing what the market demands they do in order to survive. In any case, we’ve seen three major games announced as … Continue reading
  
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• Protester hit in face by police rubber bullet wants answers

  12-06-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LaToya Ratlieff remembers the blood spilling from her head, covering her clothes, the car ride from a stranger to the hospital and the 20 stitches sewn into her head after being shot in the face by a police officer with a rubber bullet during a Fort Lauderdale protest.The 34-year-old was getting ready to leave on May 31 after several hours at a peaceful protest sparked by the death of George Floyd.Further away, she could hear a group of angry protesters becoming more agitated.
  
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• Taylor Swift Calls for the Toppling of Tennessee’s ‘Racist’ and ‘Evil’ Confederate Statues

  12-06-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Taylor Swift has no interest in preserving and protecting statues of racist leaders. In a lengthy Twitter thread posted Friday, the singer condemned several “racist” monuments in her home state of Tennessee.As protests have erupted across the country in support of Black Lives Matter, demanding justice for black Americans murdered by police, statues of various racist figures, most of them Confederate leaders, have toppled. As a result, a debate has begun to rage regarding these monume
  
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• Trudeau has 'serious questions' on arrest video

  12-06-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The events that have been brought to light over the past days highlight, without question, there is systemic discrimination within our institutions, including the RCMP."Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday demanded answers, after he viewed a newly released dashcam video that shows Royal Canadian Mounted Police arresting a prominent indigenous leader.In the video from March 10, Chief Allan Adam of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation accuses an officer of harassing him.About 7 minutes in
  
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• Lebanon protesters burn roads, clash with security in second night of unrest

  12-06-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lebanese protesters set fire to roadways and clashed with security forces in a second night of unrest on Friday, according to witnesses and Lebanese media.Protests erupted on Thursday in several Lebanese cities after a crash in the pound currency, which has lost about 70% of its value since October, when Lebanon was plunged into a financial crisis that has brought mounting hardship.Protesters, however, returned later on Friday for a second night, throwing fireworks and stones at security forces
  
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• Masks significantly reduce infection risk, likely preventing thousands of COVID-19 cases -study

  12-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mask-wearing is even more important for preventing the virus' spread and the sometimes deadly COVID-19 illness it causes than social distancing and stay-at-home orders, researchers said, in the study published in PNAS: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.Infection trends shifted dramatically when mask-wearing rules were implemented on April 6 in northern Italy and April 17 in New York City - at the time among the hardest hit areas of the world by the health crisis - th
  
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• 'Everybody I've talked to feels significantly safer': A protester living near Seattle's 'autonomous zone' explains why the neighborhood is better without cops

  12-06-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters have established their own cop-free neighborhood in Seattle, Washington amid the Black Lives Matter protests.
  
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• Chile's military moves through shadows to spot coronavirus curfew breakers

  12-06-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The armored vehicle rumbles through the near-empty, darkened streets of a scruffy neighborhood in the Chilean capital Santiago, bristling with heavily-armed troops.Captain Nicolas Zamora told Reuters he and his men are mindful of the growing poverty and hunger also caused by the pandemic, and the risk it could exacerbate simmering tensions that remain from the social protests that exploded in October last year.The army, mandated to safeguard curfews and lockdowns under a state of catastrophe to
  
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• Star Wars: Squadrons confirmed after leak: full reveal details

  12-06-2020 23:00
  
  It looks like a new Star Wars game is on the way, and this time around, we’ll get to hop in the cockpit of various Star Wars fighters and do battle in space. The game leaked on the Microsoft store earlier this morning, and after that cat was let out of the bag, EA confirmed the title by scheduling a … Continue reading
  
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• Android 11 Beta Voice Access update makes a big difference

  12-06-2020 22:45
  
  This afternoon Google released Android 11 Beta for Pixel 2, 3, and 4, with a very obvious upgrade to Voice Access. This is a feature in Android that allows the user to make commands – it’s part of the “OK Google” and Google Assistant family. This feature now, far more accurately than ever before, understands screen context and content, so … Continue reading
  
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• Judge rules that Hertz can sell $1 billion worth of new stock, dealing a blow to investors who gobbled up shares after its bankruptcy

  12-06-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hertz stock has seen wild fluctuations, even gaining hundreds of percents following a bankruptcy filing, thanks to traders looking for an edge.
  
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• Does Fauci wear a mask when he goes running?

  12-06-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a dedicated runner, answers a question at the center of his two passions: Does he wear a mask when going for a run?
  
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• Fed's Bostic calls for end to racism, says Fed can play a role

  12-06-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I have shared in the outrage of the truly horrific events that brought us to this point," Bostic wrote on the bank's website, referring to the May 25 killing of George Floyd during an arrest by Minneapolis police, as well as police brutality and racism more broadly.It is rare for a Fed policymaker to take a public stance on an issue traditionally seen as outside the U.S. central bank's wheelhouse, especially one seen as politically fraught.Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday called out "the pa
  
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• One killed in blast in Pakistan's Rawalpindi

  12-06-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least one person was killed and a dozen others wounded in a rare bomb blast in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Friday, officials said.Rawalpindi, Pakistan's fourth-largest city, is known for its military garrison and adjoins the capital Islamabad.The explosion took place Friday evening at a popular market, a stone's throw from Pakistan's heavily guarded military headquarters.
  
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• US high school investigating student's 'racist' yearbook photo with photoshopped image of Martin Luther King Jr

  12-06-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A doctored photo of a student standing with Dr Martin Luther King, and a message refering to a racial slur, was somehow included in a Georgia high school’s yearbook, to the confusion and horror of the school’s staff.The photo shows a student standing next to a smiling Martin Luther King, Jr, who has been photoshopped in and whose hand rests on the student’s shoulder. The student is holding a binder with a piece of paper on top that says “Official n-word Pass”.
  
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• Android 11 Beta changed trashing files forever

  12-06-2020 22:33
  
  A brief period of safe-keeping appears in Android 11 for 3rd-party apps trashing files (like photos and videos), thanks to MediaStore API. Storage access with Android 11 includes a sort of recycling bin – or safety net between the trashing of a file and that file’s actual complete annihilation. This could be good news for the clumsy, or bad news … Continue reading
  
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• Trump news – live: Administration rolls back LGBT+ health protections as president demands end to Seattle 'autonomous zone'

  12-06-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has blamed the scenes of police brutality recorded at George Floyd protests across the US on “bad apples”, claiming to have “dominated the streets with compassion” to maintain law and order and pledging an executive order to establish a use-of-force standard, stopping short of broader reforms.Speaking at a roundtable event in Dallas, Texas, the president sought to allay ongoing frustrations by commenting: “We have to work together to confront bigotry an
  
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• Kentucky state representative says he can unseat Mitch McConnell

  12-06-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker, a progressive candidate for the Democratic Senate nomination, told ABC News that Democrats can’t defeat Mitch McConnell from the “soft center.”
  
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• In 1972, The U.S. Air Force Saved South Vietnam From Certain Defeat

  12-06-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Salvation came from the skies.
  
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• Read Trump's exact response when he was asked what people protesting George Floyd's death want

  12-06-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump gave a long, rambling answer in which he suggested that many people are protesting because they're "following the crowd."
  
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• More than 21,000 have signed petition to keep Disneyland closed amid coronavirus pandemic

  12-06-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A petition addressed to the Walt Disney Company has garnered more than 21,000 signatures to delay Disneyland's reopening, planned for July 17.
  
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• 'No peace until justice is had': A Black transgender woman's body was pulled from the river in Philadelphia

  12-06-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police are investigating the murder of Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, whose dismembered body was pulled from the banks of the Schuylkill River on Tuesday.
  
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• Appeals court appears unlikely to stop Flynn case

  12-06-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Flynn's lawyers are seeking order directing a federal district judge to let the Department of Justice drop the case.
  
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• COVID-19 virus may cause healthy people to develop diabetes

  12-06-2020 21:51
  
  As if the threat of permanent lung damage weren’t enough, a new initiative has found evidence that the novel coronavirus behind COVID-19 may cause yet another unexpected health complication: the onset of diabetes. The disease may be developed by patients who are otherwise healthy, the report states, and it may also cause ‘severe complications’ for anyone who is already suffering … Continue reading
  
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• Tyrus says he’s ‘against’ defunding the police

  12-06-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News contributor Tyrus reacts to protesters increasing calls to defund police on ‘The Daily Briefing.’
  
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• Q&A: What's next for Seattle protesters' 'autonomous zone'?

  12-06-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For nearly a week, people opposing police brutality and racial injustice have turned a Seattle neighborhood into ground zero for their protests, creating a carnival-like atmosphere with speakers and drum circles near a largely abandoned police station.While protesters say it shows how people can manage without police intervention, it's drawn scorn from President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to “go in” to stop the “anarchists" he says have taken over the liberal c
  
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• Trump campaign's waiver won't block coronavirus lawsuits: experts

  12-06-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A waiver on the Trump campaign's website absolving it from coronavirus-related lawsuits stemming from the June 19 event is "poorly lawyered" and would not be enforceable because it is not specific enough, said David Noll, a law professor at Rutgers University."There are a lot of boxes you have to check in order to have an enforceable liability waiver, and the language they have added to their website is not enough," Noll said.The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for commen
  
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• Biden's VP list narrows: Warren, Harris, Susan Rice, others

  12-06-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden’s search for a running mate is entering a second round of vetting for a dwindling list of potential vice presidential nominees, with several black women in strong contention.Democrats with knowledge of the process said Biden’s search committee has narrowed the choices to as few as six serious contenders after initial interviews.Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California, as well as Susan Rice, who served as President Barack Obama's national security a
  
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• UN health chief: Fighting virus very hard in divided world

  12-06-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of the World Health Organization said Friday he is “truly concerned” about divisions the coronavirus has created globally and within individual countries, calling it an “invisible but a very small virus causing havoc.”“The world has never seen anything like this since the flu in 1918,” WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing, comparing the ongoing pandemic to the Spanish influenza pandemic more than a century ago that
  
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• 25 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America

  12-06-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Research has extensively documented the differences between the Black and white experience in the US, from wealth and education to incarceration.
  
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• Trump says he will 'do other things' if he loses 2020 election

  12-06-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump said he will go on to other things if he loses the Nov. 3 election, after Democratic opponent Joe Biden said the Republican might cheat and refuse to leave the White House.As the race between Trump and Biden heats up ahead of the election, the two have increasingly asserted that the other side intends to cheat their way to victory.Biden, who is leading Trump in most national polls, earlier this week said his greatest concern was that Trump would try to "steal" the ele
  
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• The PS5 reveal was huge: Here’s what mattered

  12-06-2020 21:12
  
  Yesterday, Sony gave the fans what they wanted and revealed some of the games that are currently in development for the PlayStation 5. It was a big event that stretched on for more than an hour, and much of that time was taken up by trailers for upcoming games. There were a lot of reveals both big and (relatively) small, … Continue reading
  
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• Fired Florida scientist builds coronavirus site showing far more cases than state reports

  12-06-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fired scientist Rebekah Jones’ site shows thousands more people with COVID-19 than the site run by the Florida Health Department.
  
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• Kentucky panel votes to remove Davis statue from Capitol

  12-06-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Kentucky commission voted Friday to take down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol, adding its voice to a global push to remove symbols of racism and slavery.The Historic Properties Advisory Commission met remotely through video teleconferencing at the request of Gov. Andy Beshear and then voted 11-1 to move the 15-foot (4.5-meter) marble statue of Davis to a state historic site in southern Kentucky where the Confederate leader was born.The commission is res
  
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• Local Businesses Love the ‘Domestic Terror’ Zone in Seattle, Actually

  12-06-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump says Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, a largely police-free community space fashioned amid protests, is run by “domestic terrorists.” Seattle’s police department made (and walked back) a claim about anarchists “extorting” businesses in the area.But actual businesses around the zone say they’re watching Ava DuVernay films, handing out granola bars, and having a nice time.Following several nights of showdowns between police an
  
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• ISS lab test success on path to coldest lab in known universe

  12-06-2020 21:01
  
  Aboard the International Space Station, physicists worked in a unique laboratory to create a Bose-Einstein condensate. With this quantum matter, scientists will be able to further (and better) explore the wide universe of quantum physics. The results of the proof-of-principal released in a research paper in Nature this week show that this Cold Atom Lab can “successfully exploit the microgravity … Continue reading
  
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• Google Pay might soon become a one-stop-shop in the US, as the company reportedly plans to add merchant buttons inside the app

  12-06-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google Pay could become a lot more useful in the US, as the company reportedly plans to expand its features with in-app merchant buttons.
  
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• Minneapolis City Council resolves to replace police with community-led model

  12-06-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The move comes days after a veto-proof majority of the council voted to disband the police department after the country erupted in protest over the killing of Floyd, a black man who died when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes."The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, by Minneapolis police officers is a tragedy that shows that no amount of reforms will prevent lethal violence and abuse by some members of the Police Department against members of our community, esp
  
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• Nkurunziza death: Burundi court rules to end power vacuum

  12-06-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Burundi's Constitutional Court says the president-elect should be sworn in as soon as possible.
  
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• 5 great power tool deals to shop for Father's Day

  12-06-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shop top-rated power tools at up to 50% off at Home Depot, Northern Tool and other retailers—find out more.
  
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• Forget acid rain. Plastic rain is now falling across the U.S.

  12-06-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Researchers say that more than 1,000 tons of tiny plastic microparticles falls upon the western U.S. each year.
  
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• Under Armour made a face mask: Good luck trying to find one

  12-06-2020 20:47
  
  Under Armour is the latest company to release its own reusable cloth face mask, one that you will have a lot of trouble acquiring at any point in the near future. The mask is shaped to fit one’s face, unlike plain rectangular medical masks that often leave gaps. The new mask offering joins similar products launched by a number of … Continue reading
  
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• Sarah Sanders: we must have law and order to be a country without chaos, anarchy

  12-06-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former White House press secretary and Fox News contributor Sarah Sanders reacts to Trump's 'law and order' message.
  
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• Trump Goes After George Floyd Protesters and Lincoln’s ‘Questionable’ Legacy in Bizarre Fox News Interview

  12-06-2020 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News host Harris Faulkner gave President Donald Trump every opportunity to calm tensions over racist police brutality during an interview in Dallas that aired, in part, Friday afternoon. He either had no interest in doing so or was ultimately incapable. Faulkner began her interview by asking Trump if he was the right president to “unite all of us, given everything that’s happening right now.” “Well, I certainly think so and I certainly hope so,” Trump
  
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• Light dumps multi-camera phone plans for autonomous car focus

  12-06-2020 20:36
  
  Computational photography trailblazer Light has quietly given up its smartphone camera ambitions, despite inking deals with Nokia, Sony, and others to use complex multi-sensor tech for better images. The company’s approach eschewed the “one big sensor” angle that was most prevalent in smartphones, replacing it with a cluster of multiple sensors the data of which would be combined to produce … Continue reading
  
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• Bomb in Pakistani city of Rawalpindi kills 1, wounds 15

  12-06-2020 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A powerful bomb exploded at a crowded bazaar in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday, killing at least one person and wounding 15, police and government officials said.No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place while people were buying fruit from street vendors.The slain victim was a fruit seller.
  
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