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• Apple’s special iPhone for hackers arrives, but you probably can’t get it

  22-07-2020 23:58
  
  As first promised last year, Apple is now shipping a special type of iPhone that is designed specifically for hackers — a model the majority of people reading this will not be able to get. The iPhone is provided under a security program intended to ultimately help Apple protect its users by tapping the wider security community to hunt down … Continue reading
  
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• 'We ask for your prayers': 13 nuns at Michigan convent who died from COVID-19 memorialized

  22-07-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COVID-19 swept through a convent in Livonia, Michigan, leaving 13 nuns dead. One appeared to recover from the disease, only to relapse.
  
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• NYPD officer arrested for alleged involvement in LI drug ring

  22-07-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officer Joseph Recca, of West Islip, was arraigned Wednesday and is accused of selling oxycodone-hydrochloride pills. Michael Sosa, of Brentwood, and Michael Corbett, of West Islip, were also arrested.
  
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• 'He didn't even say my name': Ocasio-Cortez not satisfied with apology from Yoho, who denied insult

  22-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It is true that we disagree on policies and visions for America but that does mean we should be disrespectful," Yoho said. AOC said Yoho is "refusing responsibility."
  
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• Joe Biden claims Trump is the first racist president. Critics point out other presidents owned slaves.

  22-07-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on Wednesday called his likely opponent, President Trump, the first racist president in the history of United States. It appears to be the first time he's explicitly described Trump as a racist.The comment occurred during a virtual town hall meeting as Biden was addressing Trump's propensity to blame China for the coronavirus pandemic and call the pathogen the "China virus." Biden said that "we've had racists" who
  
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• Trump ‘Surges’ Feds to Chicago Like It’s a War Zone

  22-07-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The surge has come home. Using language borrowed from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Trump on Wednesday unveiled an open-ended deployment of Justice Department, FBI, and Homeland Security officers to Chicago—a place whites have often described in euphemistic and racist terms—and, to a lesser extent, Albuquerque. Trump, joined by Attorney General Bill Barr, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf and FBI Director Chris Wray, previewed a much-heralded &ld
  
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• Kellyanne Conway rewrites the history of Trump's call to 'liberate' states from lockdowns and claims certain governors 'blew past' his recommendations

  22-07-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president insisted in April that he had "total" authority to order states to reopen and used his bully pulpit to pressure states to do so.
  
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• Biden Says Trump Is America’s First ‘Racist’ President

  22-07-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called President Trump the country’s first racist president during a virtual town hall Wednesday.“The way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening,” Biden said at the virtual event organized by the Service Employees International Union when a healthcare worker brought up Trump’s habit of blaming Asians for the coronavirus pandemic. T
  
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• The son of a parent convicted in the college admissions scandal says he 'didn't care' where he went to school and his dad was 'way too invested'

  22-07-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  David Sloane, Matteo Sloane's father, was sentenced to four months in prison in September for his role in the college admissions scandal.
  
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• CDC update requires 6 questions for all new COVID-19 test patients

  22-07-2020 23:12
  
  This week, an updated set of questions were released by the CDC for COVID-19 laboratory test orders. Anyone who orders a COVID-19 test, collects a specimen, or performs a laboratory test, “must make every reasonable effort to collect complete demographic information as well as responses to the following ‘ask on order entry’ (AOE) questions.” These AOE questions were updated as … Continue reading
  
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• Trump announces a 'surge' of federal agents to US cities, including Chicago and Albuquerque

  22-07-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump's announcement come as officials express alarm over the sudden appearance of unmarked federal agents pulling people off the streets.
  
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• Tropical Storm Gonzalo forms in the Atlantic, expected to become a hurricane on Thursday

  22-07-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Gonzalo is the earliest "G" storm in any Atlantic hurricane season on record. It is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday.
  
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• Sierra Club apologizes for founder John Muir's racist views

  22-07-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Sierra Club apologized Wednesday for racist remarks its founder, naturalist John Muir, made more then a century ago as the influential environmental group grapples with a harmful history that perpetuated white supremacy.Executive Director Michael Brune said it was “time to take down some of our own monuments” as statues of Confederate officers and colonists are toppled across the U.S. in a reckoning with the nation's racist history following the police killing of George Floyd in
  
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• Utah sees virus surge -- but not in county with mask order

  22-07-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Utah is among the many U.S. states battling a surge in coronavirus cases, but officials said Wednesday the Salt Lake City area is bucking the trend after the county issued a mandate a month ago for people to wear masks.There's no statewide mask order in Republican-led Utah, and face coverings remain contentious, as seen at a recent public meeting that was abruptly ended when dozens of people without masks packed the room.After GOP Gov. Gary Herbert allowed Democratic leaders in Salt Lake County
  
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• California sees record 12,000 new coronavirus cases, surpasses New York as worst-hit state

  22-07-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California deaths also set a one-day record, rising by 159.New York has recorded by far the most deaths of any U.S. state at more than 32,000 with California in fourth place with over 8,000 deaths.If California were a country, it would rank fifth in the world for total coronavirus cases behind only the United States, Brazil, India and Russia.
  
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• Whitmer: Enbridge dodging responsibility for potential spill

  22-07-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer criticized Enbridge Inc. on Wednesday for what she described as the company's refusal to make an airtight pledge to pay for damages caused by a potential oil spill from its pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel.The Democratic governor's administration is pressuring the Canadian pipeline company for an explicit acknowledgment of financial responsibility for any release from its Line 5 into the Straits of Mackinac.Enbridge insists it already made such an assurance u
  
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• Ex-cop charged in Floyd's death faces 9 tax evasion counts

  22-07-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd was charged Wednesday with multiple felony counts of tax evasion, according to criminal complaints that allege he and his wife didn't report income from various jobs, including more than $95,000 for his off-duty security work.Derek Chauvin and his wife, Kellie May Chauvin, were each charged in Washington County with six counts of aiding and abetting filing false or fraudulent tax returns in the state of Minnes
  
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• Antarctic methane is leaking and the climate change impact could be huge

  22-07-2020 22:43
  
  A new source of methane leaking into the Antarctic ocean has been discovered, with concern about how the greenhouse gas could be driving climate change. Although so-called methane seeps – where the gas bubbles out from an underground reservoir and into the ocean – have been identified in multiple locations around the world, this latest example is the first to … Continue reading
  
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• Senior U.S. diplomat says U.S., China can still cooperate on North Korea

  22-07-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A senior U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday that the United States and China can still work together against North Korea's development of weapons of mass destruction, despite tensions between Washington and Beijing."While there is much more China could do to enforce binding sanctions and prevent sanctions evasion – and we will continue to engage the Chinese on that issue," the number two diplomat at the State Department told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy Chromebook ‘Nightfury’ may launch with QLED display

  22-07-2020 22:42
  
  Samsung is likely working on a new Chromebook model that goes by the codename ‘Nightfury,’ and a new leak claims this upcoming model will feature a QLED display. The new model — assuming the leak pans out — will join the existing Samsung Galaxy Chromebook model, which features an impressive but pricey 4K AMOLED screen. The Samsung ‘Nightfury’ Chromebook has … Continue reading
  
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• What is QAnon and where did it come from? What to know about the far-right conspiracy theory

  22-07-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twitter has cracked down on thousands of QAnon accounts. Here's a look at where the baseless conspiracy theory comes from and its ties to Trump.
  
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• Trump sending federal 'surge' to more U.S. cities

  22-07-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump, joined by Attorney General William Barr, unveiled an expansion of the "Operation Legend" program to include cities such as Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a further effort by federal officials to tackle violence."Today I'm announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent crime," said Trump.Trump said "we have no choice but to get involved" with a rising death toll in some major cities."This bloodshed must end, this bloodshed will end," he
  
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• 13 Religious Sisters Have Died From COVID-19 at a Single Convent in Michigan

  22-07-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The women, aged 69 to 99, were all members of a Felician Sisters convent in Livonia, Michigan
  
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• Tropical Storm Gonzalo forecast to become 2020's first Atlantic hurricane of the year

  22-07-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The storm is forecast to bring gusty winds and tropical downpours to the Windward Islands this weekend, and it's not the only game in town.
  
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• Canada court rules US 'not safe' for asylum seekers

  22-07-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US violates the human rights of asylum seekers by imprisoning them, a Canadian judge rules.
  
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• Real estate is a seller's market as sales soar by 21 percent — but renters worry they will be left behind

  22-07-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus has made roomier homes with backyards in the suburbs more appealing — driving up prices and triggering bidding wars.
  
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• CDC chief issues blunt update on uncounted COVID-19 cases

  22-07-2020 22:12
  
  COVID-19 could have been ten times more prevalent than previously believed, the CDC director has suggested, with new testing indicating the coronavirus pandemic had been far more expansive than assumed. The US Centers for Disease Control has been assessing antibody test results from March through May 2020, with the agency’s findings casting COVID-19 case numbers into new light. “Misleading media … Continue reading
  
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• Louisville police: Releasing records in Breonna Taylor case hurts impartial investigation

  22-07-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Courier Journal sued Louisville police in May, demanding the release of the investigative file into the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor.
  
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• Army Resumes Large-Scale Combat Training Despite Nationwide Surge in Virus Cases

  22-07-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Army halted rotations to NTC and JRTC in mid-March to limit the spread of the virus.
  
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• Senate Republicans secure impeachment witness who flagged concern about Hunter Biden

  22-07-2020 22:06 via politico.com
  
  George Kent, who testified last year about Trump allies' efforts to influence Ukraine, has agreed to sit for an interview as early as Friday.
  
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• New Texas poll hints at 'massive suburban defection' from Trump

  22-07-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several polls have shown that former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is building a lead among suburban voters across the United States. While it may seem unlikely that will be the case in Texas, a new Quinnipiac University poll does provide some evidence that President Trump's suburban support is dwindling there.The poll, released Wednesday, still shows Trump leading his likely challenger among white voters with a college degree, 49 percent to 42. But T
  
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• Court documents reveal secretive federal unit deployed for 'Operation Diligent Valor' in Oregon

  22-07-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The documents, filed on Tuesday, helped shed light on what had been a secretive operation that involved days of violent clashes between unidentified federal law enforcement officers and anti-racist protesters outside a federal courthouse.The operation has involved the Department of Homeland Security's Rapid Deployment Force.It stepped up its response to "increasingly violent attacks" in the Oregon city on July 4, the day after a group of people broke into the courthouse, according to the affidav
  
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• More Wells Fargo customers say the bank decided to pause their mortgage payments without asking

  22-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mortgage borrowers in 14 states have now told courts, lawyers or NBC News they’ve been forced into forbearance plans by Wells Fargo without asking.
  
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• Virus surge interrupts hopes for a swift economic recovery

  22-07-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The worsening COVID pandemic risks choking off the U.S. economy's fragile recovery and turn what some investors hoped would be a sprint back to normal into a long hard slog.States like California that had begun to take tentative steps to reopen their stores and restaurants are reversing course, while states across the Sunbelt that balked at taking preventative measures in the Spring are having to quickly backtrack as the number of Americans being hospitalized or dying from the virus hits new rec
  
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• Trump trailing Biden in new Texas poll as president loses support among college-educated voters

  22-07-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden has moved ahead of Donald Trump In the latest Quinnipiac Poll of voting intentions in Texas.The former vice president is preferred by 45 per cent of respondents, and the incumbent president by 44 per cent. In early June those numbers were 44 per cent to Trump and 43 per cent to Biden.
  
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• Ubisoft next-gen game prices will stay the same – for now

  22-07-2020 21:57
  
  As we head into the next generation of game consoles, there’s a big question concerning video game prices. For years and years, video game prices have generally held steady at $60, and even though the price is inflated through Deluxe or Collector’s Editions, DLC, and microtransactions, you can usually count on spending $60 and getting the game in some form. … Continue reading
  
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• US Navy’s top officer reveals grim new details of the damage to Bonhomme Richard

  22-07-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fire and flooding left 11 of 14 decks damaged.
  
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• AT&T criticized for startling “buy a new phone or lose service” warning

  22-07-2020 21:42
  
  This week AT&T started sending out emails about how users will need a new smartphone if they want to continue “receiving service.” AT&T’s message does not suggest that users will lose service instantly – but they DO suggest that some users will NEED to upgrade to a new phone if they plan on continuing to get phone calls by the … Continue reading
  
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• The lawyer accused of attacking a federal judge's family in New Jersey is also a suspect in another fatal shooting, FBI says

  22-07-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Roy Den Hollander carried out both attacks in July disguised as a delivery driver, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.
  
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• National Parks Are Getting Trashed During COVID-19, Endangering Surrounding Communities

  22-07-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  National parks across the country are seeing an influx of first-time visitors who are leaving litter and refusing to social distance.
  
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• Here’s how to lock Facebook Messenger on your phone

  22-07-2020 21:18
  
  Facebook today announced a number of new security features for Messenger, and chief among them is a new App Lock feature. This, essentially, will keep your messages private even if someone else gains access to your phone, whether they’re simply borrowing it or they’re being a little more intrusive. In addition, Facebook is rolling out new settings that give you … Continue reading
  
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• Heart health study offers a good reason to eat more chocolate

  22-07-2020 21:14
  
  If eating chocolate leaves you feeling guilty, a new study offers reassurance. According to research from the European Society of Cardiology, regularly eating this polyphenol-rich food may noticeably reduce your risk of developing heart disease later in life. Beneficial compounds in chocolate help keep the coronary arteries healthy, the new study reveals, building upon past research on the food. Chocolate … Continue reading
  
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• Navy Vet Beaten by Federal Agents at Portland Protests in Viral Video: 'They Came Out to Fight'

  22-07-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Navy veteran stands passively in Portland, Oregon, amid swirling tear gas. One of the militarized federal agents deployed by President Donald Trump swings a baton at him with full force. With both hands. Five times.
  
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• In pictures: 'Wall of Moms' joins Portland's anti-racism protests

  22-07-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US mums were moved to act after watching images of federal officers on the streets of their city.
  
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• Two men, one woman arrested in connection to Florida fishing murders

  22-07-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Top suspect has 230 felony charges; Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd speaks out.
  
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• FEMA won’t commit to face masks for schools

  22-07-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even as the president pushes for schools to reopen in the fall, the director of FEMA said it would likely not supply schools with face masks.
  
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• FEMA won't commit to face masks for schools

  22-07-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even as the president pushes for schools to reopen in the fall, the director of FEMA said it would likely not supply schools with face masks.
  
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• A public health employee predicted Florida's coronavirus catastrophe — then she was fired: 'This is everything I was trying to warn people about'

  22-07-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a complaint filed last Thursday, attorneys for Rebekah Jones, who designed a dashboard on coronavirus spread in the state, say she was fired for “refusing to publish misleading health data.”
  
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• Love's just became the first major US truck stop chain to require masks in all its stores. Some drivers are threatening to boycott.

  22-07-2020 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Love's is the first major truck stop chain to require masks, following retail giants like Walmart and Kroger.
  
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• Jeff Rudes Says Second California Coronavirus Shutdown ‘Could Cripple the Industry’

  22-07-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "What's happening now with infections multiplying exponentially, certain women are afraid to shop," said the chief executive officer of L'Agence, which is forging ahead with a fall footwear launch.
  
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