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• Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey just announced he will be funding a universal basic income experiment that could affect up to 7 million people

  09-07-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jack Dorsey's fellow Silicon Valley billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg think a universal basic income could help poor Americans, too.
  
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• 'Creepy Trump': New attack ad focuses on president's statements about women and his own daughters

  09-07-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new political attack advert against Donald Trump has hit out at the president’s past behaviour around women, including his own daughters.The two-minute clip uses comments made by Kellyanne Conway against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to highlight the president's own behaviour.
  
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• He said he was owed $220. Another man ended up in the hospital, police say

  09-07-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Florida Keys man was flown to a mainland hospital Wednesday night after he was seriously injured in an attack by another man, Monroe County sheriff’s deputies say.
  
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• Google working on tablet experience, “Android Beyond Phones” soon

  09-07-2020 23:45
  
  Google spoke up today about their future in Android and/or Chrome OS tablets. Only very briefly, of course, and not in a way that definitely guaranteed they’d be making any sort of new hardware any time soon. But still, it has been acknowledged that Google is, indeed, “working on the tablet experience, both for users and for developers” according to … Continue reading
  
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• How the Supreme Court Delivered Trump a Short-Term Political Win — and a Long-term Loss to His Quest for Broader Power

  09-07-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Supreme Court rulings on Thursday were ultimately a long-term loss to his claims of sweeping executive power.
  
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• Gen. Milley addresses Department of Defense's role in civilian law enforcement

  09-07-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley delivers opening statement to the House Armed Services Committee.
  
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• Trump erupts after Supreme Court rules to release his tax returns: 'Not fair to this Presidency!'

  09-07-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump fired in all directions Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled to release his tax returns, claiming he's a victim of "political prosecution" and accusing Democrats, New York prosecutors and former FBI officials of "spying" on him. The president made the unsubstantiated charges in a fusillade of frantic tweets after the high court gave the green light for Manhattan ...
  
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• The governor of Florida is getting roasted online for comparing attending school with shopping at Home Depot or Walmart

  09-07-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I want our kids to be able to minimize this education gap that I think has developed," Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Thursday.
  
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• Japan Has an All-New Jet Fighter In the Works

  09-07-2020 23:27 via popularmechanics.com
  
  The unnamed fighter will replace the F-2 currently in service with the Japanese air force.
  
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• Pelosi Weighs In On Baltimore Columbus Statue Destruction

  09-07-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the toppling of Baltimore's Christopher Columbus statue on the Fourth of July, saying at a news conference Thursday that, "if the community doesn't want the statue there, the statue shouldn't be there."
  
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• Cats were seducing humans for care more than 1,000 years ago

  09-07-2020 23:25
  
  A popular saying claims that cats choose their people, not the other way around. This feline seduction has been traced back more than 1,000 years thanks to a newly detailed ancient cat skeleton, a new study reports. The skeleton reveals that humans traveling the Silk Road trade routes likely cared for cats along the way, treating them as pets similar … Continue reading
  
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• Medical experts: Floyd's speech didn't mean he could breathe

  09-07-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As George Floyd repeatedly pleaded “I can’t breathe” to police officers holding him down on a Minneapolis street corner, some of the officers responded by pointing out he was able to speak.One told Floyd it takes “a lot of oxygen” to talk, while another told angry bystanders that Floyd was “talking, so he can breathe.”“The ability to speak does not mean the patient is without danger,” said Dr. Mariell Jessup, chief science and medical officer
  
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• Man who flies Nazi flag from his car to show he is in ‘total opposition of Black Lives Matter’ claims he was attacked because of it

  09-07-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man who flies a Nazi flag on the back of his car to show his opposition to Black Lives Matter protests and gay people, claims he was attacked last month because of it.Jesus Seineke, who lives in Alpine, San Diego, flies a Nazi flag on the back of his SUV when he drives around his local area.
  
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• Body cam footage shows man in crisis point gun at BPD officers before being shot

  09-07-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Baltimore Police on Thursday released body worn camera footage from a July 1 officer involved shooting.
  
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• Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused of echoing white supremacist slogan on air

  09-07-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been accused of echoing a 14-word white supremacist phrase during one of his on-air segments.During a segment on his Monday evening show, Mr Carlson showed side-by-side images of Representative Ilhan Omar and Senator Tammy Duckworth, both of whom are Democrats on Capitol Hill and were born overseas.
  
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• Florida’s coronavirus death rate is trending up again after rising hospitalizations

  09-07-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It’s too early to tell how much worse the death rate will get.
  
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• Elon Musk already reconsidering his endorsement of Kanye West for president

  09-07-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What goes up must come down. And like his SpaceX rockets, Elon Musk's support of Kanye West for president appears to have fallen back to Earth.Musk's new-found scepticism came after West's first interview as a presidential candidate in Forbes revealed plans to run the White House like Wakanda, which would assume the fictional home of Black Panther was also anti-abortion and anti-vaccinations.
  
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• Rep. McClintock: Democrats will use anything out of context to attack Trump

  09-07-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock weighs in on Democrats' push for release of Trump's tax returns.
  
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• Trump signs executive order as he courts Hispanic voters

  09-07-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that creates an advisory commission tasked with improving Hispanic Americans' access to economic and educational opportunities, a push that comes as the president hopes to win a bigger share of the Latino vote than he did four years ago.The commission has broad marching orders to foster school choice efforts and promote public-private partnerships in Hispanic-American communities.“You are a treasure,” Trump told a friendly cro
  
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• What A Second Stimulus Payment Could Look Like

  09-07-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A second stimulus payment grows more likely by the day, with coronavirus surging and the fate of the economy hanging in the balance. Katie Johnston reports.
  
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• Trump's top general appears to contradict president on military bases named for Confederates

  09-07-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mark Milley has recommended a commission consider renaming American military bases that bear the name of Confederates, which Donald Trump has said he won't even consider.The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the president's top military adviser told the House Armed Services Committee that "those generals fought for the institution of slavery" and condemned the Confederacy's attempt to secede from the US as "an act of treason".
  
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• Mississippi seeing big virus outbreak in state legislature

  09-07-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People standing close to each other and talking, sometimes leaning in to whisper, without a mask in sight.Among those testing positive in the heavily Republican body are the GOP presiding officers, House Speaker Philip Gunn and Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann.None of the lawmakers has been hospitalized, according to state officials.
  
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• Airline passengers are finding 'creative ways' to remove masks, American pilot says

  09-07-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An American Airlines pilot says it's hard to enforce their mask policy without a federal mandate and wants FAA and DOT chiefs to see for themselves.
  
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• Trump Tower gold doorstep now reflects New York's Black Lives Matter mural

  09-07-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York's mayor joined activists on Thursday to paint "Black Lives Matter" in giant yellow letters on the city's exclusive Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, once the crown jewel in President Donald Trump's property empire.As doormen at the luxury apartment building's shiny gold doorstep watched, Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, along with Reverend Al Sharpton, who eulogized George Floyd in Minneapolis in early June, joined dozens of mask-wearing people pushing paint rollers to create the
  
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• U.S.-Cuba relations are ‘a mess’ because Obama ignored the pitfalls of reopening | Opinion

  09-07-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jeffrey DeLaurentis’ June 30 op-ed bears the headline, “Five years later, diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba are a mess.” DeLaurentis, former U.S. chargé d’affaires in Havana, is right, but those relations aren’t a mess for the reasons he claims.
  
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• Kayleigh McEnany tells CNN reporter Trump will ‘always put children’s’ safety first’

  09-07-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany weighs in on the CDC’s guidelines for reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic at a briefing.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump team distortions on Biden and police

  09-07-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's campaign team is misrepresenting Democratic rival Joe Biden's stance on improving police practices following George Floyd's death.In ads and emails this week, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee assert that Biden would “defund the police.”Meanwhile, Biden left out some context when he asserted that Trump had ordered the government to slow down coronavirus testing.
  
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• Police: Black man's hanging death in California was suicide

  09-07-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The death of a Black man found hanging from a tree in a Southern California city park last month was ruled a suicide Thursday following a police investigation prompted by outrage from the family who said authorities initially were too quick to rule out the possibility he was lynched.The manner of 24-year-old Robert Fuller's death on June 10 in Palmdale intensified the racial angst that already was at a boiling point following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.Family members said they coul
  
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• US judge issues gag order in George Floyd case

  09-07-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The judge presiding over the cases of four fired Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd issued a gag order Thursday, after some of the defense attorneys discussed the case with reporters.Attorneys and others who speak to the media "will increase the risk of tainting a potential jury pool and will impair all parties' right to a fair trial," Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill said.Among the comments spurring the gag order were those by Earl Gray, attorney for f
  
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• DC judge asks for full appeal review of Flynn dismissal

  09-07-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. District Court judge who oversaw the criminal case of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has requested a full appeals court review after a three-judge panel ordered him to dismiss it.U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan made the highly unusual the request Thursday.A three-judge panel last month ordered Sullivan to dismiss the case against Flynn, following the Justice Department's extraordinary decision to drop the prosecution.
  
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• Trump signs executive order expanding educational and economic opportunities to Hispanics

  09-07-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell and Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera react.
  
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• Epic Games just got a surprising investment from another gaming giant

  09-07-2020 22:24
  
  Epic Games announced today that it has a new investor: Sony Corporation. Yes, the very same Sony that makes the PlayStation 4 and will soon be launching the PlayStation 5 has decided to make a $250 million investment in Epic Games. Specifically, Sony will be making this investment through a subsidiary company, but the name of that subsidiary wasn’t revealed … Continue reading
  
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• Judge in Flynn case wants full appeals court to rehear dismissal of charges

  09-07-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Judge Emmet Sullivan said three-judge panel’s ruling to dismiss charges against former national security adviser “threatens to turn ordinary judicial process upside down.”
  
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• By the Numbers: What we know about Trump’s finances

  09-07-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court just paved the way for the possible release of Trump’s tax and business records. Here’s what we already know about them.
  
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• Xiaomi POCO F2 Pro Review : Budget cost, shockingly good macro camera

  09-07-2020 22:13
  
  The POCO F2 Pro, or Pocophone F2 Pro, is a highly decent smartphone. It was released in May of 2020 running Android 10 with MIUI 11 inside. This device has a 6.67-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen up front with no camera to interrupt its rounded-corner rectangle face. This is one of the few smartphones to have ever been released with a … Continue reading
  
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• EA’s The Sims 4 reality TV competition offers up $100,000 in prizes

  09-07-2020 22:13
  
  TBS will be home to a new type of reality show, one that revolves around esports. Called ‘The Sims Spark’d,’ the series comes from EA working with Turner Sports, BuzzFeed Multiplayer, and ELEAGUE. This is the first esports competition that will involve the video game The Sims 4, underscoring the growing popularity of esports as a form of competition and … Continue reading
  
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• Honor Magic Earbuds ANC True Wireless Review: Surprisingly Good For Under £100

  09-07-2020 22:12 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Prominent mayor of S.Korea's capital found dead

  09-07-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Longtime Seoul City Mayor Park Won-soon was found dead according to police on Friday.This comes after his daughter reported him missing at 5:17pm local time, saying his phone was off and that he had left a message "like a will."Hundreds of police took part in the hours-long search, utilizing both drones and dogs.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said the mayor's body was found at Mt. Bugak in northern Seoul around midnight, near where his phone signal had last been detected.The agency did not
  
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• ICE says students taking 'hybrid' classes may be able to stay in the US, but it won't tell colleges what that means

  09-07-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Students may be able to stay if they take a mixture of online and in-person classes, but the new ICE guidelines lack clarity over the requirements.
  
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• In first, US punishes senior Chinese officials over Uighur rights

  09-07-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Thursday took its first major action to stop "horrific" abuses against China's Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims, slapping sanctions on several senior officials.Three officials will be refused US visas and see any US-based assets frozen including Chen Quanguo, the Chinese Communist Party chief for the Xinjiang region and architect of Beijing's hardline policies against restive minorities.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States was acting against "horrific and sy
  
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• White House reporter tests positive for coronavirus: association

  09-07-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A reporter who attended White House briefings this week has tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House Correspondents' Association said on Thursday, raising further concerns about the health of staff and journalists working in the building.The individual, who wore a mask during press conferences with Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday and Wednesday, has no symptoms and spent no additional time at the White house this week, the group said, adding that it was contacting individua
  
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• Syrians alarmed at Russia push to limit cross-border aid

  09-07-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Displaced Syrians relying on humanitarian assistance voiced alarm Thursday after regime ally Russia tried to reduce cross-border aid to millions in the northwest of the war-torn country.The Russian motion at the UN Security Council was voted down, but a council resolution authorising aid deliveries through the Turkish border expires Friday.
  
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• Huawei executives refuse to comment on Hong Kong row after insisting they are free to express views

  09-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Huawei executives on Thursday refused to comment on the row with China over Hong Kong just moments after insisting that the company’s UK leaders are free to express their opinions. Jeremy Thompson, a vice president of Huawei UK, told MPs that its management team was “just like any other UK organisation” and able to speak freely. However, asked seconds later whether he had a view on Beijing’s controversial national security law, which has been widely condemned around the w
  
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• US Supreme Court to rule on revealing Trump tax returns

  09-07-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The court will test claims from President Trump's lawyers he enjoys total immunity while in office.
  
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• Officers in deadly Breonna Taylor raid thought she was alone

  09-07-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisville police officers who fatally shot Breonna Taylor while serving a warrant were told she should be home alone because the main target of the narcotics investigation was elsewhere, according to an interview with one of the detectives who served the warrant.Taylor was shot eight times after officers used a battering ram to knock down her door and fired into the apartment after midnight March 13.One officer was shot by Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who said he thought an intrude
  
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• Swan: Trump holds advantage over Biden with economy

  09-07-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden accuses 'Trump's cronies and pals' of benefiting from stimulus money; Axios national political reporter Jonathan Swan weighs in.
  
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• NYPD forced to impose limit on officers filing for retirement amid 400% surge of personnel trying to quit

  09-07-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Police Department (NYPD) has reportedly limited the number of retirement applications it will allow, after it saw a surge in requests in the last couple of months.The NYPD announced on Wednesday that 179 officers filed for retirement between 29 June and 6 July – a 411 per cent increase on the 35 who retired in the same time period in 2019.
  
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• Top US general slams Confederacy as 'an act of treason' and says the country needs to take 'hard look' at bases honoring its leaders

  09-07-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Confederacy "was an act of treason at the time against the Union, against the Stars and Stripes, against the US Constitution," Gen. Mark Milley said.
  
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• Border apprehensions rose in June, despite expulsions policy

  09-07-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Border officials have carried out more than 70,000 expulsions of migrants under an emergency coronavirus order.
  
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• Trump blasts Supreme Court decision on financial records, saying it showed a lack of ‘deference’

  09-07-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three House committees and the Manhattan district attorney are seeking Trump's financial records.
  
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