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• University of Virginia changes logo to remove reminder of school's link to slavery

  16-06-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A logo for UVA athletics that was unveiled featured a nod to the campus' serpentine walls, which are connected to the university's history with slavery.
  
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• Show me the data: U.S. doctors skeptical of reported COVID breakthrough

  16-06-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Global pressure to find a cure or vaccine has accelerated the process of reporting coronavirus study results, feeding confusion over whether therapies have been proven effective.One influential COVID study was withdrawn this month by respected British medical journal The Lancet over data concerns.Trial results announced on Tuesday showed dexamethasone, used to fight inflammation in other diseases, reduced death rates by around a third among the most severely ill COVID-19 patients admitted to hos
  
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• People of color account for majority of coronavirus infections, new CDC study says

  16-06-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  African-Americans and Latinos are vastly overrepresented when it comes to coronavirus infections, according to an analysis released by the Centers for Disease Control on Monday morning. 
  
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• Family of Dreasjon Reed, Black Man Killed by Indianapolis Police Officer, File Lawsuit Against City's Police Department

  16-06-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The lawsuit says that the Indianapolis police department did not correctly train officers on how to engage with civilians
  
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• T-Mobile reportedly cuts hundreds of jobs following $26.5B Sprint merger - CNET

  16-06-2020 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The layoffs hit Sprint's small-business sales unit, a report says.
  
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• Brazil sees record daily coronavirus cases; official says outbreak under control

  16-06-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil reported a record 34,918 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the same day that one of the senior officials leading the country's widely criticized response to the crisis said the outbreak was under control.Brazil, the world's No. 2 coronavirus hotspot after the United States, is fast approaching 1 million cases, although experts say the true number is likely higher due to patchy testing.Brazil also registered 1,282 COVID-19 deaths since its last update on Monday, the Health Ministry said, b
  
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• Brazil reports record 34,918 new coronavirus cases in a day

  16-06-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil set record on Tuesday for new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in a single day, as its case load grew by 34,918 patients in 24 hours to 923,189 total infections, the most in the world outside the United States.Brazil also registered 1,282 COVID-19 deaths since its last update on Monday, the Health Ministry said, bringing confirmed fatalities in the country to 45,241.The record new daily case load comes as the pandemic continues to accelerate in Latin America, according to the Worl
  
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• A look at Trump's executive order on police procedures

  16-06-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at curbing police brutality by directing federal dollars to those police departments that meet certain credentialing standards on the use of force.Congress is also moving toward passing policing bills, but Trump was anxious to put his own stamp on the issue with a Rose Garden press conference in which he was flanked by representatives from the nation's leading law enforcement groups.The executive order would give police departments a
  
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• Polish leader may visit White House as Trump pushes troop shift in Europe

  16-06-2020 23:36 via politico.com
  
  The trip to Washington would come as the U.S. plans a controversial drawdown of troops in Germany.
  
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• Get the Beats Solo3 wireless headphones for just $140 - CNET

  16-06-2020 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These headphones, with their amazing 40-hour battery life, regularly sell for about $200.
  
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• It's no vaccine, but this is promising

  16-06-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A steroid may reduce COVID-19 deaths, researchers say. PG&E; pleads guilty to manslaughter. Trump signs police order. It's Tuesday's news.
  
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• ‘History in the making’? Seattle protest zone prompts rethink on policing.

  16-06-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Seattle’s “Capitol Hill Occupy Protest,” originally called the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” has become a focal point amid nationwide protests.
  
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• Tension in Peru amid coronavirus lockdown

  16-06-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tension on the streets of Lima, Tuesday, as riot police tried to remove hundreds of street vendors.Many vendors fought back… but were pulled away despite their efforts.Authorities took the forceful approach amid a nationwide lockdown to combat the country’s coronavirus outbreak.With over 230,000 cases of the virus and over 6,500 deaths in Peru, President Martin Vizcarra on Monday said the crisis was unprecedented.''We knew this disease was going to generate a most serious crisis in
  
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• NY family ordered to remove banner supporting Black Lives Matter

  16-06-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Westchester County family says it was threatened with a $1,000 per day fine and/or up to a year in jail if they didn't remove a banner hung in support of Black Lives Matter.
  
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• Instagram will top Twitter as a source for news, survey says - CNET

  16-06-2020 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Use of the Facebook-owned app for news has doubled since 2018, a report says.
  
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• Melissa Zarda Fought for Her Gay Brother at the Supreme Court—and Won a Landmark LGBTQ Rights Victory

  16-06-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Tuesday, Melissa Zarda was dealing with two things at home in Kansas City, Missouri: the loud barking and mischief of her new foster puppy Winnie, a cattle dog/pitbull mix, while—above the din—relishing the hard-fought, historic victory she had just won in the Supreme Court in the memory of her beloved, deceased brother Donald.His was one of three cases featuring LGBTQ people fired for their sexual orientation or gender identity that SCOTUS yesterday ruled, 6-3, were illegal under
  
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• Warner Bros. announces DC FanDome virtual convention - CNET

  16-06-2020 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The free 24-hour event will host panels with the cast and crew of Wonder Woman 1984, the Snyder Cut, The Suicide Squad and more.
  
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• Oklahoma coronavirus rate surges as Trump rally nears

  16-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * State confirmed 591 new cases on Monday, a 7.7% increase* Vice-president will attend Saturday’s election rally in TulsaShortly after the Trump campaign again insisted its first campaign rally since March would go ahead in Tulsa this weekend, it was reported that Oklahoma confirmed 591 new coronavirus cases on Monday, a 7.7% increase and the highest in the US.The news, reported by Yahoo and citing an internal document from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), came
  
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• Boy Scouts to require diversity merit badges for Eagle Scouts

  16-06-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Using the word “murders,” the Irving, Texas-based organization also condemned the police killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor.
  
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• More victims come forward as allegations of abuse against Oklahoma church grow

  16-06-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Church of the Harvest in Oklahoma City is facing harsh allegations, including physical, mental, and sexual abuse.
  
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• 'She has found her voice': Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms steps into national spotlight amid policing debate

  16-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Atlanta mayor, mentioned as a possible running mate for Joe Biden, has faced her own policing crisis with the shooting of Rayshard Brooks.
  
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• India-China clash: 20 Indian troops killed in Ladakh fighting

  16-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It is the first deadly skirmish in decades between the two regional powers at their disputed border.
  
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• 'Kroger Karen' is going viral for using a stroller to block a Black woman from leaving a grocery store parking lot

  16-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shaneeka Montgomery-Strickland live-streamed the incident in which a white woman barred her from exiting a Kroger parking lot.
  
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• First Army Unit Gets New Squad Designated Marksman Rifle

  16-06-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division this month became the first combat troops to receive the Army's new M110A1.
  
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• Trump says a million people have requested tickets to his Tulsa rally, but it could just be because TikTok users are trolling him

  16-06-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TikTok users are calling on people to register for tickets and then not show up, in an attempt to have there be empty seats at Trump's Oklahoma rally.
  
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• Russia's Putin protected from coronavirus by disinfection tunnels

  16-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from thecoronavirus by special disinfection tunnels that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow or meeting him in the Kremlin must pass through, his spokesman said on Wednesday.One such special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company based in the town of Penza, has been installed at Putin's official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow and two more in the Kremlin, said Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman.
  
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• Russia's Putin protected from coronavirus by disinfection tunnel - RIA

  16-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through, the state-controlled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday.The special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company based in the town of Penza, has been installed at his official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow where he receives visitors, it said.The Russian news agency described the disinfectant as a fine cloud of liquid
  
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• Nasrallah says Lebanon should not observe US Syria sanctions

  16-06-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of Hezbollah group on Tuesday said Lebanon should not observe new U.S. sanctions against Syria which he described as deeply hurtful to his country if implemented.Sayed Hassan Nasrallah also blamed the United States for the dollar shortage in Lebanon, saying Washington is preventing the foreign currency from coming into Lebanon and is pressuring its central bank not to inject fresh amounts into the economy.Lebanon is facing an unprecedented confluence of economic and financial crises &md
  
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• Atlanta megachurch pastor apologizes for saying that people might find 'white blessing' more palatable than 'white privilege'

  16-06-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People "miss the blessing of slavery that it actually built up the framework for the world that white people live in and lived in," said Louie Giglio.
  
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• 351 feet worth of controversy: Confederate monument stands tall in this Kentucky town

  16-06-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jefferson Davis' birthplace in Kentucky is a place that waffles on the line of idolizing and preserving a dark chapter in American history.
  
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• Amid George Floyd protests, weaponized misinformation floods social media - CNET

  16-06-2020 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Confusion runs rampant on Twitter and Facebook.
  
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• India-China clash: An extraordinary escalation 'with rocks and clubs'

  16-06-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The deadly border clash could alter the future of the relationship between the two neighbours, say experts.
  
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• SUVs likely contribute to higher pedestrian fatality rate, study shows - Roadshow

  16-06-2020 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pedestrian deaths climbed between 2009 and 2018 in the US, just as SUVs became more popular.
  
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• Alleged 'Boogaloo' extremist charged in killing of federal officer

  16-06-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Steven Carrillo and his alleged accomplice "came to Oakland to kill cops," said John Bennett, special agent in charge of the San Francisco division of the FBI.
  
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• NYPD boss says 'cut smartly' as defund police drumbeat grows

  16-06-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As chants of “defund the police” thunder at protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, New York City's police commissioner has found himself trying to avoid deep cuts to what has long been among the world's best-funded law enforcement agencies.Over the last three months, the coronavirus crisis has dealt an estimated $9.5 billion blow to New York City’s budget, leading some elected officials to peer closely at police department funding.Last Friday, city council leaders
  
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• Texas Democrats ask Supreme Court to expand mail-in voting

  16-06-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Texas Democratic Party said on Tuesday it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to accept its case seeking to expand vote-by-mail in the state ahead of this year's elections, saying the coronavirus pandemic is likely to discourage turnout at the polls.The move comes after a series of defeats in federal and state courts that upheld Texas law blocking provisions allowing voters to mail their ballots if they fear contracting the virus.Early voting begins on June 29 for the July 14 primary run-offs in Te
  
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• Supreme Court decision 'catalyst' for change: LGBT activists

  16-06-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (New York resident Roger McKinsey): "It's about time, I mean, we are human beings, too, you know what I mean. Why shouldn't we get equal rights just as everyone else?”Supporters of LGBT rights hailed a landmark decision from the Supreme Court, calling it a catalyst for change, but long overdue. (New York resident Drew Ginsburg): "It's right. It should've happened a lot time ago”(New York/Trinidadian resident Wendy Dumas-John): "We've been fighting this fight for so long...it's like i
  
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• Mexico's coronavirus death surge puts testing regime under the microscope

  16-06-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico went into the coronavirus outbreak insisting it would beat the pandemic without mass testing, but with deaths surging as it prepares to exit lockdown, the strategy looks increasingly untenable.Mexico's coronavirus czar, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell, has doggedly eschewed widespread testing for new cases in favor of a lighter regime based on a model drawn up over a decade ago, arguing it made more efficient use of medical resources.Government allies are also breaking ranks, and
  
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• El Salvador loosens tightest pandemic restrictions in region

  16-06-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After nearly three months of mandatory stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19 in El Salvador, the most locked down country in Latin America slowly began opening Tuesday.President Nayib Bukele finally relented after repeated decisions by the constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court found his mandatory quarantine orders unconstitutional.El Salvador’s reopening will be gradually extending into August.
  
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• AT&T is laying off thousands of workers and shutting down at least 250 stores

  16-06-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AT&T; is cutting 3,400 jobs and closing more than 250 stores as part of its efforts to focus on growth areas and respond to the impacts of COVID-19.
  
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• Elon Musk and Grimes saved a surprise for son X Æ A-12's birth certificate - CNET

  16-06-2020 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  X marks the spot.
  
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• Top coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says he hasn't talked to Trump in two weeks

  16-06-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Fauci said attending a protest would be "putting you and others at risk"
  
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• Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets Chevy Corvette gear - Roadshow

  16-06-2020 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Want a Corvette shirt for your resident? Chevy has that and more covered.
  
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• Behind troop cut, bitter spite between Trump and Merkel

  16-06-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has clashed with plenty of US allies.Trump's abrupt announcement that he will reduce US troops in Germany by half to 25,000 -- a decision that has brought concern across NATO -- is the culmination of mounting tensions between the leaders of the Western alliance's two most populous nations.Trump called Germany a "delinquent" to NATO -- a reference to its failure to meet a target of spending two percent of GDP on defense -- and said, "they treat us very badly on trade."
  
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• Apple Arcade: The full list of games for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV - CNET

  16-06-2020 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The $4.99-a-month service now includes more than 120 games.
  
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• He was fired for being gay. Seven years later, his Supreme Court win sent a 'clear message.'

  16-06-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When history is written, Gerald Bostock’s name will grace the landmark case that won LGBTQ people nationwide protection from workplace discrimination.
  
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• Franklin Graham claims he’s not homophobic despite asking hospital volunteers to oppose same-sex marriage

  16-06-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has insisted that he is not homophobic, despite asking volunteers in his hospital to oppose same-sex marriage, and criticising Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that protects LGBT+ Americans from discrimination at work.Mr Graham’s Christian charitable group, Samaritans’ Purse, set up a makeshift field hospital in New York, in April, to help treat coronavirus patients.
  
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• Violent counter-protesters mobbed a small-town BLM demonstration in Ohio amid false rumors of antifa

  16-06-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A small demonstration against racism in Bethel, Ohio, turned violent when hundreds counter-protesters arrived after learning of the event online.
  
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• Indian Army Confirms 20 Troops Died after Clash with Chinese Forces

  16-06-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Indian army has confirmed that at least 20 of its soldiers have died after a clash in the Himalayan Mountains on Monday."Indian and Chinese troops have disengaged at the Galwan area where they had earlier clashed on the night of 15/16 June," the Indian army said in a statement. "17 Indian troops were critically injured in the line of duty…and exposed to sub-zero temperatures in the high altitude terrain have succumbed to their injuries, taking the total that were killed in action to 2
  
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• French submarine burns in ‘unbelievably fierce fire’ for 14 hours

  16-06-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The fire broke out at 10:35 a.m. local time at the front of the submarine, which was in basin No. 3 in the Missiessy zone of the port. Workmen first noticed smoke on the lower deck.
  
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