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• 'We are the ones who keep us safe': How abolitionists see an America without police and prisons

  19-06-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser — whose city streets just blocks from the White House had been painted with massive yellow block letters reading "defund the police" — told CNN on 8 June that those words don't necessarily mean what some might assume."I think a lot of people have different meanings for what they mean when they say 'defund the police', and as I've listened and read, most people are saying they want reform," she said, "and they want good policing."
  
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• Disney+ no longer offers a free trial, but that’s not a big deal

  19-06-2020 23:44
  
  When Disney finally launched its Disney+ streaming service late last year, it offered multiple subscription options, including a bundle with Hulu and ESPN+, as well as a free one-week trial period. The free trial is common among streaming services — Hulu, for example, also has a seven-day trial. Things have changed, however, and new Disney+ customers no longer have that … Continue reading
  
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• China to Increase U.S. Agricultural Imports after Secret Trade Talks: Report

  19-06-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China will increase its purchases of U.S. agricultural products following secret talks between the two nations held in Hawaii, Bloomberg reported on Friday.China is a vital market for American soybeans, corn, ethanol, meat, and other agricultural products. But Beijing, which committed to buying $36.5 billion in American agricultural goods under the terms of a phase-one trade deal signed by President Trump and Chinese premier Xi Jinping, had only purchased $4.65 billion worth through the first fo
  
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• Trump to renew push to end DACA program

  19-06-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump slams Supreme Court ruling; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Navy Won't Reinstate Crozier, Holds 1-Star's Promotion Over Poor Decision Making

  19-06-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Navy won't reinstate the captain who was fired after warning of a serious health crisis on his ship.
  
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• Trump embraces immigration court fight as election boost

  19-06-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court’s rejection of one of Donald Trump’s key immigration measures reignites a hot-button issue in a presidential campaign already scorched by pandemic, economic collapse and protests over police brutality and racial injustice.The president is betting that he can energize his most loyal supporters by fighting the Supreme Court, which decided on procedural grounds Thursday that he couldn’t end legal protections for young immigrants.Trump, who often attempts to shift
  
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• 'Why not a Black woman?' Consensus grows around Biden's VP

  19-06-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden is facing growing calls to select a Black woman as his running mate as an acknowledgement of their critical role in the Democratic Party and a response to the nationwide protests against racism and inequality.The shifting dynamics were clear late Thursday when Amy Klobuchar took herself out of contention for the vice presidency.Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has already pledged to select a woman as his vice president to energize the party's base with the prospe
  
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• In Final Coronavirus Daily Briefing, Cuomo Says Experts Approve Phase 2 Reopening In NYC; 'From Worst To First'

  19-06-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With New York City on the verge of Phase 2 reopening, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday gave his final daily address of the coronavirus pandemic. CBS2's Alice Gainer reports.
  
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• Woman Charged With Burning Philadelphia Police Cars Must Remain In Jail Until Trial

  19-06-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal is charged with arson.
  
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• Did you learn about Juneteenth in school? Many history lessons fall short

  19-06-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One educator says black history curriculums in schools are either "inadequate, inaccurate, or simply non-existent."
  
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• Professor who told student to 'anglicize' her name placed on leave

  19-06-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "If I lived in Vietnam and my name in your language sounded like Eat a D---, I would change it to avoid embarrassment," the instructor allegedly wrote.
  
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• Rise in coronavirus cases in L.A. puts Latinos at even greater risk, doctors say

  19-06-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We can’t let the discrimination of this pandemic continue this way," a clinic director said.
  
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• Navy upholds firing of captain of USS Roosevelt

  19-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a stunning reversal, the Navy has upheld the firing of the aircraft carrier captain who urged faster action to protect his crew from a coronavirus outbreak.(June 19)
  
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• Shiny Pokemon GO weekend: Weedle, Clefairy, Dragon Boat!

  19-06-2020 22:55
  
  Over the next few days we’re going to see a set of events take place in Pokemon GO with Shiny Pokemon appearances aplenty. This includes a 2020 Solstice Event, a Community Day with Weedle, and a Dragon Boat event! UPDATE: The Dragon Boat event, it turns out, will only take place in Taiwan. If you do not play the game … Continue reading
  
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• More than 2 weeks after start of nationwide protests, little sign of COVID spike, but officials remain cautious

  19-06-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When protests started after the killing of George Floyd, health experts worried they could spark outbreaks of the coronavirus. There is little evidence that has happened, though officials caution it is far too early to draw conclusions. 
  
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• The Navy Is Blaming the Captain It Fired for Accurate COVID-19 Warning

  19-06-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Navy Capt. Brett Crozier has been vindicated after warning of a dire coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt—just not by the Navy, which on Friday announced that it will not reverse Crozier’s firing for the infraction of trying to save his sailors’ lives. Instead, the Navy leadership implied that Crozier was responsible for the outbreak that he loudly warned he needed urgent help from the Navy to redress.“If Capt. Crozier was still in command today, I
  
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• Apple closes some stores again as COVID-19 spikes

  19-06-2020 22:35
  
  As some cities and states begin easing pandemic restrictions, we are unsurprisingly seeing spikes of COVID-19 cases in several states. Apple seems to be taking these spikes seriously, as it has announced that it will be closing down a total of 11 stores across four states. There’s no word on when these stores might open, and in fact, that almost … Continue reading
  
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• Galwan Valley: India PM Modi says military will keep borders secure

  19-06-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Narendra Modi says no foreign troops are on Indian territory, following deadly border violence.
  
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• Court set to rule on Trump attempt to stop aide's damning book

  19-06-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge weighed President Donald Trump's last-ditch bid Friday to stop former top aide John Bolton's bombshell book from publication, but with much of the damning contents already out there was little hope for the White House."It certainly looks difficult to me about what I can do about those books all over the country," Judge Royce Lamberth said at a hearing in Washington, DC, federal court, referring to copies of "The Room Where it Happened" that have already been distributed and dissected in
  
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• Maryland police chief latest to face reckoning amid protests

  19-06-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Maryland police chief resigned this week within hours of a court filing that portrayed his department, one of the state’s largest, as an agency poisoned by a racist culture.A complaint cited by the filing said a Prince George’s County police sergeant had a personalized license plate with an acronym for a vulgarity directed at President Barack Obama.A lieutenant derided Black Lives Matter protesters in comments quoted in a New York Times article.
  
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• This glorious new all-sky image of the universe gives you X-ray vision

  19-06-2020 22:05
  
  A stunning new image mapping the universe offers unprecedented detail, delivering groundbreaking visuals of our Milky Way’s features through to gigantic black holes as they grow in distant galaxies. It’s the handiwork of the eROSITA X-ray telescope aboard the Russian-German “Spectrum- Roentgen-Gamma” (SRG), and promises the deepest view of the sky from its 360-degree instruments. eROSITA launched almost a year … Continue reading
  
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• CERN approves 62-mile super-collider: now it just needs $23bn to pay for it

  19-06-2020 21:57
  
  The European Organization for Nuclear Research, more commonly known as CERN, has approved an ambitious plan to build a 62-mile super-collider in the pursuit of expanding humanity’s knowledge of physics. The endorsement came from the CERN Council today, June 19, with costs expected to hit a minimum of €21 billion (approx. $23.5 billion). CERN, of course, is best known for … Continue reading
  
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• Florida reports record-high spike in coronavirus cases and a 'plunging' median age of infection

  19-06-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite the surge, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wouldn't issue a statewide order requiring face masks.
  
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• Motorola Edge+ display issues may need replacement

  19-06-2020 21:43
  
  Today we’re taking a peek at the Motorola Edge+ and its “waterfall” curved-edge display. There’s a lot of goodness here, but it seems to depend on whether you’re one of the unlucky few to get a bad unit. Some Motorola Edge+ displays are misbehaving in ways that are not relegated to software. If you’re one of the people with extreme … Continue reading
  
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• Two Iowa men arrested in brutal, 'racially motivated' assault of Black man

  19-06-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dale Lee Millard and Jesse James Downs were both arrested and charged with willful injury. It's punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
  
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• UN Human Rights Council condemns abuse in Nicaragua

  19-06-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations Human Rights Council condemned what it called serious human rights violations in Nicaragua and urged President Daniel Ortega to cease such tactics Friday.The council approved the resolution with a vote of 24 to 4 with 19 abstentions at its seat in Geneva, Switzerland.The resolution said the council “expresses grave concern at the continuing reports of serious human rights violations and abuses since April 2018, and the persisting disproportionate use of force by the poli
  
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• AMC does a lightning fast about-face on mask rule

  19-06-2020 21:35
  
  Yesterday, AMC started detailing its plans to reopen many of its movie theaters next month. The company initially said that it wouldn’t require guests in some areas to wear masks, and it didn’t take long for the backlash to hit. Now, just a day later, AMC has made an abrupt about-face, announcing that it will indeed require customers to wear … Continue reading
  
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• Ontario school reopening plans give parents option to keep children at home

  19-06-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Friday parents will have the option to keep their children at home to continue with remote learning under the three scenarios school boards have been asked to consider, as the province prepares to reopen classrooms for the 2020-21 school year.Ontario's three scenarios are: a return to pre-pandemic education, with all students attending in person and strict cleaning guidelines in place; a modified routine allowing a maximum of 15 students per day into classrooms
  
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• US Navy will not reinstate aircraft carrier captain fired after sounding alarm about coronavirus outbreak

  19-06-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Navy upheld Capt. Brett Crozier's firing, a reversal of an earlier recommendation that he be reinstated.
  
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• Former Atlanta officer Rolfe waives first court appearance in Rayshard Brooks case

  19-06-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Byran Llenas reports from Atlanta.
  
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• U.S. "not going to allow Russia and China to continue" increasing nuclear stockpiles, top negotiator says

  19-06-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. is set to sit down with Russia and possibly China on Monday to discuss limiting all three countries' nuclear stockpiles. CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk spoke to Ambassador Robert Wood, the U.S. top arms control negotiator, about his growing concerns over Russia and China's nuclear arsenals.
  
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• In California, Hanging Deaths of Two Black Men Summon a Dark History and FBI Scrutiny

  19-06-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PALMDALE, Calif. -- Poncitlan Square in the center of this high desert city is a tidy expanse of green lawn with a gazebo and a fountain. On one side is City Hall, on the other, a fire station. There is a cafe and the Whispering Palms Apartments. This time last year, for the first time, it was filled with revelers celebrating Juneteenth, the annual holiday to mark the end of slavery.Today, it is a place of mourning, anger and suspicion after a black man was found dead in the park, in the early h
  
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• Air Force Probing Use of RC-26 Spy Plane in US Cities

  19-06-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The investigation was prompted by lawmakers' concern over use of military equipment during protests across the country.
  
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• In This Coronavirus Wave, China Tries Something New: Restraint

  19-06-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At an apartment complex in southern Beijing that is under lockdown, residents could not leave their homes in a gated cluster of low-rise brick buildings. Uniformed security guards and medical workers in protective gear watched the gate.Around the corner in the Baizhifang neighborhood lay a different world. Shops were open. A supermarket was doing a brisk business. Residents came and went and seemed unfazed by a new coronavirus outbreak."It should not be as serious as last time," said Johnny Zhao
  
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• What Supreme Court? Trump's HHS pushes LGBT health rollback

  19-06-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration Friday moved forward with a rule that rolls back health care protections for transgender people, even as the Supreme Court barred sex discrimination against LGBT individuals on the job.It also signals to religious and social conservatives in President Donald Trump's political base that the administration remains committed to their causes as the president pursues his reelection.The Trump administration rule would overturn Obama-era sex discrimination protections for trans
  
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• In Cuba, families fear shortages will worsen as coronavirus affects the economy

  19-06-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “We cannot choose. We buy whatever appears in the stores,” said one Havana resident.
  
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• Poland accuses Putin of re-writing history over WWII surrender jibe

  19-06-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Poland has accused Vladimir Putin of manipulating history after he wrote an article claiming the pre-war Polish government threw “its own people under Hitler’s machine of destruction”. The article comes out just a week before Mr Putin is to host the annual Victory Day parade previously cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak, and ahead of a nationwide vote that could allow him to stay in power until 2036. Mr Putin has used the Soviet Union’s decisive contribution to
  
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• Meet All the Weapons Kim Jong-Un Wishes He Could Get His Hands On

  19-06-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thankfully sanctions will make it harder for him.
  
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• Kayleigh McEnany on Supreme Court DACA ruling

  19-06-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany addresses reporters’ questions during a briefing.
  
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• In Minneapolis, Looking for Police Recruits Who Can Resist Warrior Culture

  19-06-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS -- Even as the Minneapolis Police Department reels in the aftermath of its officers' involvement in the killing of George Floyd, the department has been recruiting a new crop of trainees who will face the same challenge of every rookie: navigating the dramatic difference between what is preached at the academy and what is practiced on the street.In the Minneapolis Police Academy, cadets are trained to be mindful of their own biases, to treat the public with respect and to use force o
  
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• WH press secretary says she'll attend Trump's Tulsa rally, but won't wear a mask

  19-06-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Health experts warn that Trump’s rally, which will pack nearly 20,000 attendees into Tulsa’s Bank of Oklahoma Center, represents a perfect storm for the transmission of COVID-19.
  
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• McEnany won't wear mask at Tulsa Trump rally

  19-06-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Centers for Disease Control recommends that Americans wear masks in public.
  
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• CDC says most Americans support COVID-19 prevention measures

  19-06-2020 21:00
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new report stating that the majority of Americans support measures intended to prevent or slow the spread of the novel coronavirus behind COVID-19. The statement is based on a survey of thousands of Americans from across the nation; the data was recently published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly … Continue reading
  
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• Trump turns virus conversation into 'US vs. THEM' debate

  19-06-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s push to resume big rallies despite concern he's putting the public's health at risk is part of a broader reelection campaign effort to turn the national debate about the coronavirus into a political fight that he frames as “US vs. THEM.”Trump went so far as to complain in a Wall Street Journal interview this week that some Americans wore facial coverings not as a preventive measure but as a way to signal disapproval of him.The president appears to be ca
  
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• How Pokemon GO got daily free boxes and “guaranteed” encounters

  19-06-2020 20:47
  
  Today we’re taking a peek at a note delivered by Niantic about the near-future of Pokemon GO. In this note, the folks at Niantic responsible for keeping Pokemon GO popping suggested that they’d be testing two new updates. “In our continued efforts to adapt Pokemon GO’s gameplay to individual settings,” said the note, “we’re excited to announce that we’ll be … Continue reading
  
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• Congressman: Remove Confederate traces from West Point

  19-06-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Military Academy has been asked again to rename buildings honoring Confederate officers like Robert E. Lee by the Democratic congressman who represents the area.Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney sent a letter co-signed by 21 other members of Congress to the secretaries of the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense on Thursday saying there shouldn't be facilities at West Point named for those who “betrayed their Country during the Civil War.”
  
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• 'Hurt and angry', India leader warns China over border clash

  19-06-2020 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that his country was "hurt and angry" after a border clash with China that left 20 troops dead, and warned that the army has been given free reign to respond to any new violence.India and China have blamed each other for the high altitude clash on their contested Himalaya frontier on Monday which also left Chinese casualties after brutal fights with nail studded batons, rocks and rods covered in barbed wire.Modi called a rare meeting with oppositi
  
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• Tim Murtaugh weighs in on Trump’s upcoming Tulsa rally

  19-06-2020 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump 2020 campaign Communications Director Tim Murtaugh joins Dana Perino on ‘The Daily Briefing.’
  
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• Space tourism startup plans big-ticket balloon rides to the atmosphere’s edge

  19-06-2020 20:32
  
  A startup aims to take space sightseers to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere, with Space Perspective planning to launch balloon rides from Space Florida. The latest example of space tourism, the six hour balloon trips will include two hours at the very fringes of space, 100,000 feet above sea level. It should be enough for a mesmerizing view, Space Perspective … Continue reading
  
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• Iran slams U.N. nuclear watchdog resolution, says it worked with body

  19-06-2020 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday blasted a resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA, saying Tehran has cooperated with the body, in a statement by state media."While Iran has the highest level of cooperation with the IAEA, the issuance of a resolution by the Board of Governors is a completely unconstructive and disappointing step," ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in the statement.
  
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