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• New York City Council to vote on $1 billion NYPD budget cut

  30-06-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic leaders push to slash law enforcement budgets as crime rates in many cities rise; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Human remains found during search for missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen

  30-06-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The search for Vanessa is now over," said Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller. He described the area as a "shallow grave."
  
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• Fact check: Democratic Party did not found the KKK, did not start the Civil War

  30-06-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Frequent claims that the Democratic Party of the 19th century either started the Civil War or formed the KKK are false, according to historians.
  
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• How the explosive YouTube war between James Charles and Tati Westbrook brought the value of vitamin supplements into question

  30-06-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Westbrook and Charles' falling out and Westbrook's apology video raised questions about the value of supplements.
  
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• 1 of 2 Oklahoma officers shot during traffic stop dies

  30-06-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the two Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officers who were shot during a traffic stop has died, authorities said Tuesday.Police Chief Wendell Franklin said Sgt. Craig Johnson died Tuesday.Franklin described Johnson's death as a “tremendous loss” to the police department.
  
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• Hong Kong security law: Life sentences for breaking China-imposed law

  30-06-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People in the city face life in jail for a host of offences under the new Chinese legislation.
  
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• COVID-19 vaccine rules see FDA try to win over anti-vaxxers

  30-06-2020 23:45
  
  Fearing skepticism or even outright refusal among some Americans to consider a COVID-19 vaccination, the US Food and Drug Administration has preemptively published its guidelines for the development of a lasting coronavirus treatment. The recommendations, released today, cover the process by which the FDA will eventually approve potential COVID-19 vaccines, at least in part to try to bring “anti-vaxx” advocates … Continue reading
  
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• Google Stadia Controller wireless Android update and July’s free games

  30-06-2020 23:42
  
  Today we’re taking a peek at the latest update for Google Stadia, complete with a bump for the Stadia Controller. The official Stadia Controller previously required a USB connection to an Android device in order to play Stadia games on an Android device. Now, with this latest update, users can play Stadia games on Android devices with the Google Stadia … Continue reading
  
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• Texas bars sue state’s governor and alcohol commission over coronavirus closures

  30-06-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bar owners in Texas are suing governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission after they were ordered to close amid rising coronavirus cases in the state.The businesses have argued in court documents that Mr Abbott’s recent executive order, which paused the further reopening of the state and forced them to close, has singled them out unfairly, according to CBS News.
  
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• Driver In Deadly Crash Has Been Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

  30-06-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman who caused a deadly crash last February has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
  
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• Disney Plus: Everything you need to know (including new movies during lockdown) - CNET

  30-06-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hamilton is the next big release, coming July 3, followed by a Beyonce visual album and some X-Men movies over the course of the summer. Here's everything to know.
  
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• Republicans, with exception of Trump, now push mask-wearing

  30-06-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In Republican circles -- with the notable exception of the man who leads the party -- the debate about masks is over: It’s time to put one on.As a surge of infections hammers the South and West, GOP officials are pushing back against the notion that masks are about politics, as President Donald Trump suggests, and telling Americans they can help save lives.Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, on Tuesday bluntly called on Trump to start wearing a mask, at least some of the time, to
  
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• New Brazil minister resigns amid scrutiny of his credentials

  30-06-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s latest education minister reportedly offered his resignation Tuesday just days after his appointment, creating a new headache for the embattled leader as he struggles to start a new chapter at the ministry and shore up flagging support.Economist Carlos Alberto Decotelli, facing a slew of allegations that he embellished his academic credentials, tendered his resignation in the afternoon, Brazilian media said, including a report in the newspaper Folha de
  
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• Sen. Rand Paul on grilling Dr. Anthony Fauci over re-opening schools amid coronavirus pandemic

  30-06-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Republican member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, joins Neil Cavuto with insight on 'Your World.'
  
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• Scribd ebook subscription plan expands with 1,000 premium magazines

  30-06-2020 23:14
  
  Scribd, the company best known as a platform for hosting documents, is also home to an ebook subscription service that provides access to a large library of fiction and non-fiction digital books. Though the service revolves around ebooks, Scribd has dabbled with other types of content in the past — it offered digital comic books for a while, for example, … Continue reading
  
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• Disney Plus: Every show, movie, original and surprise release to come - CNET

  30-06-2020 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Disney's Hamilton and X-Men movies are coming to Disney Plus this summer. What's going on with Marvel original shows during coronavirus lockdown? Here are all the big titles still coming -- and when.
  
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• Fact check: Chick-fil-A has not resumed donations to groups that oppose LGBTQ rights

  30-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The restaurant chain has faced past criticism for donations to various organizations, but a viral claim about giving to anti-LGBTQ groups is untrue.
  
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• Anthony Fauci tells Congress new coronavirus cases could reach 100,000 a day without changes

  30-06-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New cases have been increasing by about 40,000 a day, Fauci told Congress Tuesday, adding that could rise to 100,000 a day without changes.
  
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• Get the Beats Solo3 wireless headphones for just $130 - CNET

  30-06-2020 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These headphones, with their amazing 40-hour battery life, regularly sell for about $200.
  
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• Russia tells IAEA it is incident-free after nuclear particle increase

  30-06-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia has told the U.N. atomic watchdog there have been no nuclear incidents on its territory that could explain elevated but still harmless levels of radioactive particles detected on the Baltic Sea last week, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday.A separate body, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), which watches for nuclear weapon tests, said on Friday a monitoring station in Sweden had found higher-than-usual levels of caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103.
  
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• Sen. Joe Manchin on calls for national mandatory mask order, White House response to COVID crisis

  30-06-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, Democratic member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joins Neil Cavuto on 'Your World.'
  
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• The 10 best car insurance companies in the US - Roadshow

  30-06-2020 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Auto insurance is essential for safe, legal driving.
  
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• FTC warns of COVID-19 scam claiming to give funds for bank info - CNET

  30-06-2020 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scammers are sending emails claiming to be government officials giving money for a "Global Empowerment Fund."
  
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• Feud ends in gunfire as pastor kills two in front of his daughter, Las Vegas cops say

  30-06-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man, a pastor at a Las Vegas church, killed his 71-year-old neighbor and her friend with a shotgun, police say.
  
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• Facebook ad boycott: Why big brands 'hit pause on hate' - CNET

  30-06-2020 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The "Stop Hate for Profit" campaign is gaining steam in a way that Facebook can't exactly ignore.
  
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• Top Trump aide says president is 'eager to return to the campaign trail' amid reports a planned rally was scrapped

  30-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh held a press conference call with reporters on Tuesday where he said the president is “eager to return to the campaign trail and to keep campaigning and keep connecting with Americans.” 
  
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• McEnany on the PDB: ‘The president does read’

  30-06-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a press briefing on Tuesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said President Trump reads the President’s Daily Brief, and added that he is “the most informed person on planet earth when it comes to the threats that we face.”
  
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• Coronavirus: Fauci warns of 100,000 US cases per day

  30-06-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US infection rate is surging, with over 40,000 people currently infected each day.
  
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• FDA warns public to trash this hand sanitizer for fear of methanol

  30-06-2020 22:52
  
  Wood alcohol may have found its way into a certain set of hand sanitizer bottles released to the public earlier this year. One voluntary recall was announced on behalf of Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer, for their 1-liter bottles of consumer-level product. The recall was done after a news alert from the Food and Drug Administration for related toxic hand sanitizer … Continue reading
  
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• Apple nixes some future Arcade games to drive subscribers, report says - CNET

  30-06-2020 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company is looking for games that better hook players, according to a report from Bloomberg.
  
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• Next SpaceX launch includes 57 Starlink satellites, all wearing visors - CNET

  30-06-2020 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Elon Musk looks to be making good on his pledge to reduce the brightness of his growing broadband constellation.
  
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• We found the best deals to shop during Home Depot's massive 4th of July sale

  30-06-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retailers such as Wayfair and Walmart are also offering major savings.
  
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• Europe Portrays Both America and Iran As Rogue States At the UN

  30-06-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pompeo finally had his chance to face off with Iran, Russia, and China. He may have gotten more than he bargained for.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway's 15-year-old daughter is defiantly posting anti-Trump and pro-Black Lives Matter TikToks 'to inform people and spread love'

  30-06-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Claudia Conway said her mother, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, asked her to delete the TikTok videos, but she "respectfully declined" to do so.
  
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• Venezuela general accused with Maduro unable to pay attorney

  30-06-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Venezuelan general who was organizing a volunteer army to overthrow Nicolas Maduro says he is unable to afford a legal defense in a U.S. narcotics case that charges him alongside gis homeland's socialist president.Gen. Cliver Alcala surrenderedin March to face U.S. accusations that he led with Maduro and two others for two decades a narcoterrorist conspiracy that sent 250 metric tons of cocaine a year to the U.S. and turned the Venezuelan state into a platform for violent cartels and Co
  
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• There's no comprehensive database of police killings in the US, so a group of volunteers is making one

  30-06-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EBWiki, or "End Bias Wiki," is reminding the public that police forces kill Black Americans every day and agitating for justice.
  
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• Trump a ‘coward or complicit’ over Russia bounty claims, says ex-Navy SEAL in new ad

  30-06-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former US Navy SEAL has hit out at Donald Trump in a new attack ad released by a Republican political group, calling him a "coward" or "complicit" regarding the allegations that Russia has been paying bounties to Afghans who kill US military members.The minute-long ad by the Lincoln Project features former US Navy SEAL Dr Dan Barkhuff — now an emergency room doctor and the founder of the Veterans for Responsible Leadership PAC — chastising the president for his response to reports
  
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• Huawei and ZTE officially designated national security threats by FCC - CNET

  30-06-2020 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Chinese tech giants are risks to America's 5G future, says the chair of the US Federal Communications Commission.
  
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• YouTube TV is getting another price hike and it’s a big one

  30-06-2020 22:08
  
  YouTube TV subscribers are getting a mix of good and bad news today. The good is that YouTube TV is getting more channels and some new features. The bad, unfortunately, is that those new channels and features are coming at the cost of yet another price hike, and this is a big one. In a blog post today, YouTube announced … Continue reading
  
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• Google Search gets realistic Jurassic World dinosaurs with AR

  30-06-2020 22:04
  
  Google users on mobile can now experience a realistic dinosaur in their own environment using the Google Search app. With this new experience, Google offers AR dinosaurs based on the movie Jurassic World to let users experience the extinct creatures in an entirely new way — and, of course, using the smartphones they already own. Have you ever wondered what … Continue reading
  
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• The B-52 Bomber Once Had Fake Missiles To Fool Russia (Or Anyone) in a War

  30-06-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This platform gave the B-52 one interesting way to trick its opponents.
  
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• Staying Apart, Together: A sore throat made me grateful for my health in the time of COVID

  30-06-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Quarantine has been hard, don't get me wrong, but I've been fighting my bouts of depression, boredom, loneliness without the burden of being ill.
  
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• McConnell eyes next coronavirus package after July recess

  30-06-2020 21:53 via politico.com
  
  Negotiations are likely to be even more painful in this round of talks.
  
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• GMC Sierra finds new buyers thanks to diesel engine option - Roadshow

  30-06-2020 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's been a long time since GMC offered a full-size pickup with a diesel engine, and buyers are digging it, the automaker says.
  
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• Baseball is coming back: Dates, locations and how to watch MLB's return - CNET

  30-06-2020 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It took awhile, and some players are sitting out the shortened 2020 season entirely, but most of the boys of summer will start play in late July.
  
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• ‘People like you getting shot.’ Miami man arrested after pointing gun, racist tirade.

  30-06-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dwayne Wynn was over at his next-door neighbor’s house chatting about an alligator spotted in a nearby lake. Then, Wynn spotted something else: a red Jeep Cherokee pulling into his driveway, driven by a man delivering fliers to mailboxes.
  
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• 'I Can't Focus on Abortion Access if My People Are Dying'

  30-06-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Like many young Americans, Brea Baker experienced her first moment of political outrage after the killing of a Black man. She was 18 when Trayvon Martin was shot. When she saw his photo on the news, she thought of her younger brother, and the boundary between her politics and her sense of survival collapsed.In college she volunteered for the NAACP and as a national organizer for the Women's March. But when conversations among campus activists turned to abortion access, she did not feel the same
  
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• Russian voters agree to let Putin seek 2 more terms

  30-06-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian voters approved changes to the constitution that will allow President Vladimir Putin to hold power until 2036, but the weeklong plebiscite that concluded Wednesday was tarnished by widespread reports of pressure on voters and other irregularities.With the nation's polls closed and 30% of all precincts counted, 74% voted for the constitutional amendments, according to election officials.For the first time in Russia, polls were kept open for a week to bolster turnout without increasing cro
  
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• Russia nears end of vote on extending Putin's rule to 2036

  30-06-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A vote on amendments to Russia’s constitution that could allow President Vladimir Putin to hold power until 2036 entered its final day Wednesday amid widespread reports of pressure on voters and other irregularities.For the first time in Russia, polls were open for a week to bolster turnout without increasing crowds casting ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic — a provision that Kremlin critics denounced as an extra tool to manipulate the outcome.Putin is all but guaranteed to get t
  
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• Pompeo warns Taliban against attacking Americans

  30-06-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Afghanistan's Taliban against attacks on Americans, the State Department said Tuesday, amid outrage over alleged Russian bounties to target US troops.In a telephone call Monday with Taliban negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Pompeo "made clear the expectation for the Taliban to live up to their commitments, which include not attacking Americans," a State Department statement said.
  
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