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• Race relations in Wisconsin capital are a tale of 2 cities

  25-06-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In this college town that considers itself a bastion of progressive politics and inclusion, race relations are really a tale of two cities.Demonstrators who toppled statues of figures with no racist history this week say they went after the sculptures because they wanted to shatter a false narrative that the state and the city support Black people and racial equity.“The crowd at large was absolutely conscious of the political motivations,” protester Micah Le told The Associated Press
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's victims can now collect more than $600 million from compensation fund

  25-06-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Victims who endured mental, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of wealthy Palm Beach hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators can now start filing compensation claims against his estate.
  
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• Rivian R1T electric truck gets its desert on - CNET

  25-06-2020 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rivian wants to prove that electric trucks can get dirty, too.
  
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• Rivian R1T electric pickup truck slays rocks and dirt in new video - Roadshow

  25-06-2020 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rivian uploaded a short video to YouTube with its upcoming electric truck drifting through corners and climbing up rocks.
  
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• Trump administration opens sensitive Arctic areas to oil development

  25-06-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration on Thursday released its plan to open environmentally sensitive areas in Arctic Alaska to oil development, overturning some protections that go back decades.The plan released by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management revokes an Obama-era management system for a huge swathe of federal land on the western North Slope, the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.The Trump plan, contained in a final environmental impact statement, opens 18.7 million acres of the 23
  
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• Coronavirus: US cases ‘may have topped 20 million’

  25-06-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Health officials say the true number of cases is about 10 times higher than the reported figure.
  
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• Amazon Big Style Sale: Get huge discounts on watches from Bulova, Casio, Fossil and other top brands - CNET

  25-06-2020 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brands like Nine West, Timex, MVMT and Armitron are just a few that are offering discounts for every horology lover.
  
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• UN Security Council to meet Monday on Ethiopia dam

  25-06-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council plans to meet Monday to discuss Egypt and Sudan's objections to Ethiopia's construction of a mega-dam on the Nile River, diplomatic sources said Thursday.The public video conference was called by the United States on behalf of Egypt, according to the sources.Ethiopia wants to start filling the reservoir for the 475-foot (145-meter) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in July, with or without approval from the two other countries.
  
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• Retired Police Officer Faces Charges After Restaurant Shooting

  25-06-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A retired NYPD officer faces assault charges after a shooting inside a Queens restaurant.
  
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• Dreamers, angry with Trump over DACA, ready counteroffensive

  25-06-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “We know that in order to defend immigrants, protect DACA and defend our democracy that Trump must be defeated this November," said United We Dream's Cristina Jiménez.
  
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• Robot actress to star in big-budget sci-fi movie - CNET

  25-06-2020 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The artificially intelligent actress named Erica was trained on the principles of method acting and has already done some filming.
  
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• Colorado reexamines Elijah McClain's death in police custody

  25-06-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Colorado governor on Thursday ordered prosecutors to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man put into a chokehold by police who stopped him on the street in suburban Denver last year because he was “being suspicious.”Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order directing state Attorney General Phil Weiser to investigate and possibly prosecute the three white officers previously cleared in McClain's death.McClain's name has become a rallyin
  
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• Beto O'Rourke thinks Texas is 'Biden's to lose'

  25-06-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Although his presidential bid failed to gain traction, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke came within a hair of becoming a senator from Texas in 2018 and performed better than any Democrat in a statewide race in nearly 30 years. 
  
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• Philly police head decries tear gas usage against protesters

  25-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Philadelphia's police commissioner, along with the mayor, apologized to the public Thursday for giving statements that were inaccurate in the days after tear gas, bean bags and pepper spray were used against protesters who were trapped on a highway.At least one high ranking commander took a voluntary demotion, and Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said a member of the city's SWAT team who was seen in videos spraying protesters with pepper spray will be notified Friday that he is suspended with the in
  
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• Families of 3 deceased workers sue Tyson over Iowa outbreak

  25-06-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The families of three workers who died after contracting the coronavirus in an Iowa meat plant outbreak sued Tyson Foods and its top executives Thursday, saying the company knowingly put employees at risk and lied to keep them on the job.The lawsuit alleges that Tyson officials were aware the virus was spreading at the Waterloo pork processing plant by late March or early April but kept that information from employees and the public.As the outbreak grew, the company failed to implement safety me
  
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• Police voted out of schools in Oakland, California

  25-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The board's unanimous vote on Wednesday night to disband the Oakland Unified School District police department, consisting of 10 officers and 57 unarmed security guards, capped years of pressure for dismantlement led by the local activist group Black Organizing Project.Under the newly adopted measure, some $2.5 million in money previously earmarked for school district police would be reallocated toward student-support positions, including social workers, psychologists and other mental or behavio
  
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• The US may have seen 8.7 million coronavirus cases in March alone, new research shows — meaning millions went undiagnosed

  25-06-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus spread far more rapidly across the US in March than scientists initially realized, a study found.
  
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• 'A Karen in the wild': More than $22,000 in donations pour in for a Starbucks employee who refused to serve a customer not wearing a face mask

  25-06-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "She flipped me off, and she said, 'No, I don't need one,' and she started cursing up a storm," Lenin Gutierrez said. San Diego County requires masks.
  
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• Stranger Things 3: The Game is free from Epic this week - CNET

  25-06-2020 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New week, new games: Epic is offering two games worth $25 for free.
  
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• NASCAR releases photo of noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage

  25-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Bubba Wallace has done nothing but represent this sport with courage, class and dignity," NASCAR president Steve Phelps said. "It is offensive seeing anyone suggest otherwise."
  
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• Lobbyist Abramoff to plead guilty in cryptocurrency fraud case

  25-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Abramoff and Rowland Marcus Andrade, the chief executive of NAC Foundation, were accused of conspiring to make false and misleading statements to potential purchasers of the cryptocurrency.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday announced parallel charges against NAC, Andrade and Abramoff.Abramoff, who once served four years in prison for bribing U.S. officials in a case thatbecame synonymous with government corruption, also agreed to settle with the SEC.
  
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• US Military’s Deployment to the Southern Border Has Been Extended Another Year

  25-06-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Thursday signed off on a new deployment of personnel to the southern U.S. border, a mission to be handled mostly by National Guard members.
  
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• 'Dixie' Chicks no more: As Confederacy loses its luster, bands and brands rush to abandon its symbols

  25-06-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The decision by the Dixie Chicks to change their name follows weeks of demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and is the latest instance of a nationwide move to abandon symbols of the Confederacy, slavery and Jim Crow.
  
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• Lightning kills more than 100 in northern India

  25-06-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PM Narendra Modi said relief efforts were under way and expressed condolences to victims' families.
  
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• Mazda3 turbo will officially be a thing in July - Roadshow

  25-06-2020 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mazda was sneaky on social media and subtly hinted at the turbocharged compact car with a new video.
  
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• Virus whistleblower alleges retribution has only intensified

  25-06-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A government whistleblower ousted from a leading role in battling COVID-19 alleged Thursday that the Trump administration has intensified its campaign to punish him for revealing shortcomings in the U.S. response.Dr. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, said in an amended complaint filed with a federal watchdog agency that he has been relegated to a lesser role in his new assignment at the National Institutes of Health, unable to lend his fu
  
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• Rep. McCarthy says he’s ‘frustrated’ Democrats told Sen. Scott police reform bill was a ‘token’ approach

  25-06-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy blasts Democrats for blocking GOP police reform bill and tells ‘The Daily Briefing’ Sen. Tim Scott’s speech was from ‘the heart of his life.’
  
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• Top Trump officials and Republicans are encouraging followers to migrate to Parler, an alternative social network beloved by far-right agitators kicked off Facebook and Twitter

  25-06-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to data from Apptopia, Parler has around 1 million lifetime downloads, and had its biggest spike ever in daily installs on Wednesday.
  
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• Brad Parscale, Other Trump Staff in Quasi-Quarantine After Tulsa COVID Cases

  25-06-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump’s reelection campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is one of a group of campaign staffers in quasi-quarantine after he attended a rally in Oklahoma last weekend where eight campaign aides tested positive for the novel coronavirus.Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh announced on a conference call Thursday that, “as a precaution,” staff who made the trip to Tulsa were “working remotely” and would be tested for COVID before returning to work. Asked by The Dai
  
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• No, the Gewehr 43 Was Not a German M1 Garand

  25-06-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Gewehr 43 or G43, a semi-automatic rifle, has erroneously been described as the German’s M1 Garand. However, while both were fine weapons the only thing that the two had in common was that both were semi-automatic.
  
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• Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV will usher in luxury brand's electric era this August - Roadshow

  25-06-2020 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The electric SUV was meant to debut earlier this year, but Cadillac rescheduled the event due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Pelosi says the House won't impeach AG Barr: 'Let's solve our problems by going to the polls and voting on Election Day'

  25-06-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "One hundred and thirty one days from now, we will have the solution to many problems, one of them being Barr," Speaker Pelosi said.
  
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• Invisible collision of monstrous black holes may have been seen for the first time - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An explosive flare erupted in deep space. It may have been caused by two black holes colliding.
  
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• Safari 14 will let you log in to websites with your face or finger - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's an important step on the path to dumping passwords altogether.
  
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• CDC Head Estimates U.S. Coronavirus Cases Might be 10 Times Higher Than Data Show

  25-06-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The estimate is based on wider testing for antibodies, which detect people who have been infected
  
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• NYPD Seeks Suspect In Baseball Bat Attack Outside Home Depot In The Bronx

  25-06-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The NYPD wants the public's help identifying the suspect in a baseball bat attack. According to police, a 34-year-old man was out front of the Home Depot at Bronx Terminal Market at 8:10 p.m. on June 14 when the suspect walked up and hit him on the head with a bat. Katie Johnston reports.
  
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• McDonald's says it has made more Black millionaires than any other company. But Black franchisees say they face systemic inequality.

  25-06-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McDonald's Black franchisees netted $68,000 less a month, on average, than McDonald's overall franchisee average, as of late 2019.
  
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• Brave New World trailer from NBC's Peacock is decadent, creepy sci-fi - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first batch of originals for NBCUniversal's new streaming service includes a reboot of Aldous Huxley's classic.
  
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• Apple will re-close another 14 stores in Florida as COVID-19 cases surge - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Apple already re-closed some of its Florida Apple Stores last week, along with closings in Arizona, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina.
  
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• Apple is taking even more control of its iPhones, iPads and Macs - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The tech giant is building long-requested features into iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and MacOS Big Sur that tie the devices together, giving people fewer reasons to try competing options.
  
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• The best rowing machines in 2020 - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Get a great workout at home with these rowing machines for every budget and space.
  
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• 'We need to talk about the money': Leslie Odom Jr.'s 'Hamilton' duels, onstage and off

  25-06-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tony-winning "Hamilton" actor Leslie Odom Jr. gets candid about thoughtfully originating Aaron Burr, and the lack of diversity and profit-sharing in the theater industry.
  
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• Lawmakers propose indefinite nationwide ban on police use of facial recognition - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The proposed law would prevent police, both federal and local, from using facial recognition until Congress passes a bill lifting the ban.
  
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• Fortnite Season 3 challenges and where to find Deadpool floaties - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And the second Aquaman task is ready to be completed.
  
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• EU's Borrell says Turkish gas drills off Cyprus 'must stop'

  25-06-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Thursday that "illegal" Turkish drilling for gas off the divided island of Cyprus "must stop", as he met Cypriot officials in Nicosia."Turkish illegal drillings must stop," Borrell tweeted after meeting the Republic of Cyprus' foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides.
  
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• Scientists spot nearby super-Earths that could potentially host life - CNET

  25-06-2020 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just 11 light-years away. We're practically neighbors.
  
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• Meet the South Korean Marines Who Could Be Used One Day to Destroy North Korea

  25-06-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wherever in North Korea they land, the ROK Marines are in for a very tough fight.
  
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• Israel says it reached deal with UAE to jointly fight virus

  25-06-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his government and the United Arab Emirates will soon announce a partnership in the fight against the coronavirus.The deal, which the UAE later said involved two private companies, comes despite recent warnings from UAE officials that Israel's planned annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank would harm its efforts to improve relations with Arab states.In a speech to graduating Israeli fighter pilots, Netanyahu said an announcement
  
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• When the Toppled Statue Is of Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather

  25-06-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Clayton Wickham, 28, said he used to think of the statue of his great-great-great-grandfather as "just a statue that had my name on it that was kind of cool to walk by every now and then."But as Wickham learned more about his ancestor, the statue became a source of discomfort, and then of shame.And so when protesters in Richmond, Virginia, recently tore down the bronze statue of Williams Carter Wickham, a Confederate general and plantation owner, Wickham was glad to see it fall.Not all the Wickh
  
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• That face mask exempt card going viral is totally bogus - CNET

  25-06-2020 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "These postings were not issued by the Department and are not endorsed by the Department," the DOJ makes clear.
  
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