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• U.S. tops three million known infections as coronavirus surges

  07-07-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. coronavirus outbreak crossed a grim new milestone of over 3 million confirmed cases on Tuesday as more states reported record numbers of new infections, and Florida faced an impending shortage of intensive care unit hospital beds.Authorities have reported alarming upswings of daily caseloads in roughly two dozen states over the past two weeks, a sign that efforts to control transmission of the novel coronavirus have failed in large swaths of the country.California, Hawaii, Missouri, Mon
  
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• He screamed, ‘I feel threatened’ at Florida Costco customers. Now he’s out of a job

  07-07-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida was the center of another coronavirus confrontation this week. This one involved a man who reacted badly after being asked to put on a mask in a Costco store.
  
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• Parents more interested in homeschooling after Florida's COVID-19 surge

  07-07-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With Florida school districts required to reopen in the fall, some parents are now more interested in homeschooling their children.
  
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• Data: Congress created virus aid, then reaped the benefits

  07-07-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least a dozen lawmakers have ties to organizations that received federal coronavirus aid, according to newly released government data, highlighting how Washington insiders were both author and beneficiary of one of the biggest government programs in U.S. history.Under pressure from Congress and outside groups, the Trump administration this week disclosed the names of some loan recipients in the $659 billion Paycheck Protection Program, launched in April to help smaller businesses keep America
  
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• Missouri kid camp virus outbreak raises questions of safety

  07-07-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Missouri leaders knew the risk of convening thousands of kids at summer camps across the state during a pandemic, the state's top health official said, and insisted that camp organizers have plans in place to keep an outbreak from happening.An overnight summer camp in rural southwestern Missouri has seen scores of campers, counselors and staff infected, the local health department revealed this week, raising questions about the ability to keep kids safe at what is a rite of childhood for many.Mi
  
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• US hits Chinese officials with visa bans over Tibet access

  07-07-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration fired a new shot in its diplomatic war with China on Tuesday by imposing travel bans on Chinese officials it says are restricting foreigners’ access to Tibet.While waging concurrent battles over Beijing’s policies in Hong Kong, human rights in western Xinjiang province, global trade practices and aggressiveness in the South China Sea, the administration hit an unspecified number of Chinese officials with visa restrictions, limiting or entirely eliminating the
  
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• Don Lemon to Terry Crews: Don't like Black Lives Matter? Start your own movement

  07-07-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN anchor Don Lemon invited Terry Crews to discuss the actor's recent Black Lives Matter tweets, leading to a heated debate about the movement's merits.
  
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• Brazil corporations urge action on illegal logging in Amazon

  07-07-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of Brazilian corporations are calling for a crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, expressing their concerns in a letter Tuesday to the vice president, who heads the government's council on that region.The letter to Gen. Hamilton Mourão said the country's business interests are being hurt by the "negative perception of Brazil’s image abroad in relation to socio-environmental issues in the Amazon.”It was also sent to Brazil’s prosecutor general and
  
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• NASA adds more safety fixes for Boeing's crew capsule

  07-07-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA has added more safety fixes for Boeing’s space capsule before it can fly astronauts following a pair of close calls during last year’s test flight.In closing out the seven-month investigation, NASA officials said Tuesday they have now identified 80 corrective actions, mostly involving software and testing, that must be done before the Starliner capsule launches again.“It’s a bit of a wake-up call for NASA and its contractors” across the board, said Steve Stich,
  
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• 2 female firsts at the Supreme Court announce retirements

  07-07-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the first-ever women to hold two prominent positions at the court, handling the justices' security and overseeing publication of the court's decisions, are retiring.Pamela Talkin's most public role in nearly two decades as the court's marshal has been opening court sessions by announcing the justices' entrance into the courtroom and banging a gavel before court begins.Christine Luchok Fallon's name wasn't on any Supreme Court decision, but part of her job as t
  
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• Trump news: President's niece claims he cheated on his SATs in sensational tell-all book, as he falsely insists US has lowest Covid mortality rate

  07-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has been accused of being a “co-conspirator of Covid” by New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who suggested the president had worsened the crisis by “making up facts” and declining to set an example to the public by wearing a face mask.With the US currently on almost 3m coronavirus cases and 130,000 deaths, top infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci has again sounded the alarm, warning the US situation is “really not good” and “still knee-de
  
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• Indiana officials probe alleged lynching of black activist

  07-07-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vauhxx Booker says he was attacked by men with a Confederate flag who threatened to 'get a noose'.
  
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• U.S. will restrict visas for some Chinese officials over Tibet: Pompeo

  07-07-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, citing what he called human rights abuses by the Chinese government in Tibetan areas, said the United States would restrict visas for some Chinese officials because Beijing obstructs travel to the region by U.S. diplomats, journalists and tourists.Pompeo said in a statement the United States remained committed to supporting "meaningful autonomy" for Tibetans and respect for their fundamental human rights.
  
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• Australian man fights off deadly snake that attacked him in his car while he drove down the highway

  07-07-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man Queensland police identified as Jimmy was driving down the highway in Calliope, Australia, on June 15 when he saw a snake at his feet.
  
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• New York Attorney General Stops Donations to Black Lives Matter Foundation

  07-07-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Attorney GeneralStops Donations toBlack Lives Matter Foundation The nonprofit, unaffiliated with the global movement, was ordered to stop accepting donations in the state due to failure to file financial disclosures. Attorney General Letitia James emphasizedthe need for transparency among charitableorganizations in a statement. Letitia James,via statement The organization was in line to acceptmillions of dollars from corporationssuch as Apple and Microsoft. The investigation has brought
  
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• Senator who lost both legs in Iraq hits back at Tucker Carlson claim that she hates America

  07-07-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A senator who lost both her legs in Iraq has hit back at Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he claimed she and other Democratic officials “hate America”.Senator Tammy Duckworth, who became a recipient of the Purple Heart after she lost both her legs in a helicopter crash while serving in Iraq, was criticised by Carlson for comments she made on CNN on Sunday.
  
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• A Texas Medical Center employee who hasn't seen her husband in 4 months wants people to take the coronavirus seriously so she can go home

  07-07-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Danielle Jones says that there is a constant flow of COVID-19 patients from the moment she gets into the Houston hospital until she leaves.
  
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• Disney says Walt Disney World reopening is on track for Saturday

  07-07-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a statement on Tuesday, Disney's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Pamela Hymel, said new requirements from temperature checks, to face coverings and extra sanitation would enable guests to enjoy Disney World "responsibly.""While COVID-19, and the risk of contracting it, is present in public places, there are many important ways that we can all help promote each other’s safety," Hymel said.
  
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• As COVID-19 makes a comeback, so will lockdowns

  07-07-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With more coronavirus tests in the United States coming back positive now than ever before, and with infections currently rising in 39 states, many of them in the South and West, lockdowns in some form may be the only way to regain control over a virus that has ruthlessly exploited Americans’ eagerness to return to normal life.
  
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• California seemed to do everything right. So why are COVID-19 cases surging?

  07-07-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California’s response to the coronavirus drew widespread praise. Its current struggles offer a lesson about overconfidence born of success.
  
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• Gov. Noem: We can't allow a radical agenda destroy this country

  07-07-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on national debate over removal of statues and monuments.
  
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• U.S. withdrawal from WHO over claims of China influence to take effect July 2021: U.N.

  07-07-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States will leave the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 6, 2021, the United Nations said on Tuesday, after receiving notification of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of becoming a puppet for China during the coronavirus pandemic.Trump, who announced the decision over a month ago, has to give one-year notice of the U.S. withdrawal from the Geneva-based body and pay all Washington's dues under a 1948 joint resolution of the U.S. Congress.The Unite
  
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• Trump 'going with his gut' in fanning racism, frustrating some White House aides

  07-07-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Aides prefer him to focus on his wins and offer sharp criticism of his opponent, Joe Biden.
  
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• Nursing homes, coronavirus and the future of elder care

  07-07-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 54,000 residents and workers at nursing homes and other elder-care facilities have died of COVID-19 in the United States. Will the virus lead to a revolution in how we care for the elderly?
  
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• China could have done more to aid world's COVID-19 response, top U.S. health official says

  07-07-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a panel held by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. think tank, Birx said the United States would have been more focused on identifying COVID-19 patients without symptoms if China has shared information about the frequency with which COVID-19 patients, particularly young people, are asymptomatic."I have to say if we had known about the level of asymptomatic spread, we would have all looked at thisdifferently," Birx said at the panel.
  
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• Small business program scrutinized for loans to big firms

  07-07-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress set aside $659 billion to throw a lifeline to small businesses and organizations side-swiped by the coronavirus pandemic and to help paychecks keep flowing to workers who might otherwise head to the unemployment line.Among the 650,000 companies on the partial list of recipients released Monday by the Treasury Department were fashion designers such as Oscar de la Renta, the clothing retailer Candie's and companies that own hundreds of fast-food restaurants including P.F. Chang’s an
  
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• Why hundreds of scientists are asking WHO to say the coronavirus is 'airborne,' and why WHO isn't jumping to do so

  07-07-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scientists are stressing that the virus "needs a lot of people, breathing the same air, and it needs somebody contaminating that air with virus."
  
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• Why hundreds of scientists are asking the WHO to say the coronavirus is 'airborne,' and why the WHO is not jumping to do so

  07-07-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scientists are stressing that the virus "needs a lot of people, breathing the same air, and it needs somebody contaminating that air with virus."
  
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• Scared whites will pick up a gun, but are too scared to face the truth about themselves | Opinion

  07-07-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  So now, Karen’s got a gun.
  
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• BMW wants customers to pay a subscription fee to use features the car already has installed, like a heated steering wheel or adaptive cruise control

  07-07-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BMW's new setup is similar to Tesla's, which famously offers over-the-air updates for customers long after purchase.
  
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• Black Lives Matter protesters face rare leak charge in Iowa

  07-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors in Iowa have filed a rarely used leak charge against Black Lives Matter protesters accused of stealing a confidential police document and displaying it during a television news broadcast.Two protesters are charged with unauthorized dissemination of intelligence data, a felony that carries up to five years in prison.The Iowa Judicial Branch says it's only the second time that the charge has been filed since 2010.
  
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• Murtaugh: It's a bad idea to interrupt the educational development of children

  07-07-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh weighs in on Trump's efforts to reopen schools in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson were criticized for wearing face masks early in the pandemic. Here's what changed.

  07-07-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Though masks don't provide full protection, health officials urge the public to wear them to prevent virus spread.
  
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• Whitmer Says She Won’t Be ‘Bullied’ into Reopening Michigan Too Soon, Could Reimpose Restrictions

  07-07-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday that she could reimpose social-distancing restrictions if cases of the coronavirus continue to rise in the state, adding that she refuses to be “bullied” into reopening before it is safe to do so.“I want to re-engage this economy more than anyone, but I’m not going to do it if it is too risky to do so, and that's why we’re staying focused on the epidemiology,” Whitmer said in a CNN interview.“If they keep m
  
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• No Bail For Reginald Merrill, Accused Getaway Driver In Slaying Of 7-Year-Old Natalia Wallace On July 4th

  07-07-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 33-year-old man has been ordered held without bail, after police and prosecutors say he acted as the getaway driver in the July 4th shooting death of 7-year-old Natalia Wallace. Katie Johnston reports.
  
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• Mexico finds remains of another missing student, attacks 'false' history of events

  07-07-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Investigators have found a bone fragment belonging to one of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico in September 2014, prosecutors said on Tuesday, only the second set of remains to be definitively identified in a case that roiled the country.The abduction and apparent massacre of 43 student teachers from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College became a symbol of Mexico's chronic failure to tackle gang violence and corruption.When President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office 19 months ago, he
  
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• Microsoft Surface Book 3 Review - Jack Of All Trades, Master Of...

  07-07-2020 21:23 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Two disinfectants proved lethal against COVID-19 for first time, lab testing shows

  07-07-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of other products meet criteria for use against the virus.
  
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• US general skeptical that bounties led to troops' deaths

  07-07-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The top U.S. general for the Middle East said Tuesday that the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was worrisome, but he is not convinced that any bounties resulted in U.S. military deaths.Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command said in a telephone interview with a small group of reporters that the U.S. did not increase force protection measures in Afghanistan as a result of the information, although he asked hi
  
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• Op-Ed: Mexico's president and Trump have this in common: They both trample human rights

  07-07-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Donald Trump, who meet face to face for the first time Wednesday, have parallel — and dismal — records on human rights.
  
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• Vanessa Guillen: Army confirms remains are of missing soldier

  07-07-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Specialist Vanessa Guillen, who went missing in April, was allegedly killed by a fellow soldier.
  
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• Breonna Taylor's family argues police had no cause for raid

  07-07-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisville police called off a warrant search of Breonna Taylor’s apartment after a drug suspect was located elsewhere, but then went ahead with the deadly raid to look for other suspects with no connection to Taylor, her family says in a new court filing.Taylor, a emergency medical technician who had settled down for the night at her Louisville apartment, was fatally shot when officers burst into her apartment in the early morning hours of March 13.The shooting set off weeks of protests,
  
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• Nurses Who Battled Virus in New York Confront Friends Back Home Who Say It's a Hoax

  07-07-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nurses who traveled from across the country to work in New York City hospitals saw the horrors of the coronavirus up close. They rushed patients to overcrowded intensive care units, monitored oxygen levels and held the hands of the sickest ones as they slipped away.But now that many of the nurses have returned home to states in the South and the West, they're facing a new challenge: persuading friends and family to take the virus seriously."A few times I've lost my temper," said Olumide Peter Ko
  
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• Opinion: As colleges try to navigate coronavirus, Trump already has a cruel plan for foreign students

  07-07-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration will demand foreign students attend in-person college classes or leave the country.
  
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• Nearly half of Brits back plan to give 3m people from Hong Kong path to citizenship

  07-07-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly half of British adults support the Government's proposal to welcome Hong Kongers, a poll has revealed. The Savanta ComRes survey found just one in four oppose the proposal to offer Hong Kongers that hold British National Overseas (BNO) Passports and their dependents a bespoke five-year visa, with the pathway to later apply for full UK citizenship. Over two in five Brits (42 per cent) expressed support for Boris Johnson having made this offer, with just one in four (25 per cent) expressing
  
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• Commonwealth history hides no 'dirty secrets', says Professor, as Prince Harry provokes debate

  07-07-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Commonwealth is not harbouring "dirty secrets" in its history, an Oxford professor has said, as the Duke of Sussex’s plea to acknowledge its “uncomfortable” past provokes debate. The Duke, whose grandmother the Queen is head of the Commonwealth, has warned that the “wrongs” of its history must be recognised to move forward. His words, which were supported by one High Commissioner, have seen him accused of failing to understand the complexities of the Commonwealt
  
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• Texas overpaid unemployed workers by the millions — and now wants the money back

  07-07-2020 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Texas Workforce Commission says “there’s no exception for hardship.”
  
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• Days after Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest, Epstein accuser demands investigation into sexual battery allegation

  07-07-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alicia Arden, a model, accused Jeffrey Epstein of groping her inside a hotel room during what she thought was supposed to be an interview.
  
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• Head-on crash blocks U.S. 1 traffic in Florida Keys. Child among those injured

  07-07-2020 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One child and one adult were flown to a Miami-Dade County hospital Tuesday afternoon following a head-on crash involving as many as three cars near a Florida Keys bridge.
  
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• Black Americans report hate crimes, violence in wake of George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter gains

  07-07-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Across the U.S., Black people have reported incidents of alleged hate crimes and violent backlash as Black Lives Matter has gained broad support.
  
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