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• New document shows FBI used Trump's candidate briefing to advance Russia probe

  23-07-2020 23:52 via politico.com
  
  Trump's new intelligence chief declassified the document and sent it to Senate Republicans investigating the president's political enemies.
  
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• Former Trump official told US attorneys there should be no age limit on child separations, report says

  23-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, told US attorneys that there was no categorical exception for children under five under the then-active Trump Administration child separation policy for immigrants caught crossing the border illegally.The discussion occurred in 2018 on a conference call meant to clarify the "zero-tolerance" implementation of the Trump Administration's policy.
  
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• Big Ed Mugs

  23-07-2020 23:45 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
  Big Ed Mugs – This high quality, ceramic mug will last longer than Ed and Rose’s relationship!
  This “May I Halik You” is an iconic scene from 90 Days Fiance where Ed asked Rose if he can kiss her. This was her reaction:
  Or how about this phrase where Ed tried to hit rose with this pick up line? 
  Either way, make people smile by giving this mug! 11oz or 15 oz ceramic mug with a glossy finish.Design is printed on in permanent high quality sublimation ink. NOT Vin
  
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• Big Ed Mug

  23-07-2020 23:45 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
  Big Ed Mug – This high quality, ceramic mug will last longer than Ed and Rose’s relationship!
  This “May I Halik You” is an iconic scene from 90 Days Fiance where Ed asked Rose if he can kiss her. This was her reaction:
  Or how about this phrase where Ed tried to hit rose with this pick up line? 
  Either way, make people smile by giving this mug! 11oz or 15 oz ceramic mug with a glossy finish.Design is printed on in permanent high quality sublimation ink. NOT Viny
  
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• US arrests three Chinese nationals for visa fraud

  23-07-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US justice department says the researchers lied about their membership of China's armed forces.
  
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• Trump calls off Florida segment of GOP National Convention

  23-07-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bowing to the coronavirus threat, President Donald Trump on Thursday scrapped plans for a four-night Republican National Convention celebration in Florida that had been set to draw more than 10,000 people to a pandemic hot spot to mark his renomination.Trump had already moved the convention’s public events out of North Carolina because of virus concerns.Trump and his advisers feared that going forward with big parties and “infomercial” programming in Florida would ultimately ba
  
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• No Show! Trump Cancels Jacksonville GOP Convention

  23-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After weeks of warnings from health officials, President Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly decided to play public health hero and cancel the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, announcing plans instead for “some things with telerallies”—just a few days after his private company quietly sought to trademark the idea. Trump made the announcement just a few minutes in to the White House's daily coronavirus briefing, declaring that “it’s not the righ
  
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• Enbridge contractor vessels may have bumped pipeline support

  23-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Recent damage that prompted the temporary shutdown of an Enbridge oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes may have been done by vessels working for the company, according to an in-house report provided Thursday to The Associated Press.Enbridge this week submitted to government agencies the results of its investigation into “disturbances” that were discovered during inspections of dual pipelines that run across Michigan's Straits of Mackinac.The two pipelines are part
  
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• Fox News host loses job months after coming to work visibly ill during coronavirus pandemic

  23-07-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News has parted ways with Fox and Friends First host Heather Childers, months after she was criticised for coming to work visibly ill.A spokesperson for Fox News told The Independent on Thursday: “Fox News and Heather Childers have parted ways. We wish her all the best,” but did not elaborate further.
  
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• 'Bait and switch': New Mexico Democrats distrust Trump's 'surge' against crime

  23-07-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both mayors are Democrats wrestling with violent crime and a history of police misconduct in their cities.Lightfoot said she was reassured by the president about the presence of federal agents in her city under an expansion of the Justice Department-led operation, but Keller sees the Republican president's deployment as a political ploy.
  
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• US indicts four China researchers accused of hiding military ties

  23-07-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Justice Department announced Thursday the indictments of four Chinese researchers it said lied about their ties to the People's Liberation Army, with one escaping arrest by taking refuge in the country's San Francisco consulate.The department said the four are part of a Chinese effort to "infiltrate" US institutions to gain scientific and technological knowledge."This is another part of the Chinese Communist Party's plan to take advantage of our open society and exploit academic instituti
  
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• Veto-proof Senate majority passes defense bill requiring Confederate-named bases to be renamed

  23-07-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump no longer has a say in preserving the names of military bases named after Confederate leaders.The Senate passed a $741 billion defense bill, 86-14, on Thursday that forces Confederate names to be removed from Army bases. The bill passed with a similarly overwhelming majority in the House, meaning Trump won't be able to veto the measure.Protests over police brutality and racism in the U.S. led to calls to remove statues of Confederate leaders from around the U.S. and to take their
  
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• Pompeo: U.S. engagement with China has failed

  23-07-2020 23:20 via politico.com
  
  The secretary of state decried China as a dishonest global player and brutal domestic regime.
  
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• At Nixon library, Pompeo declares China engagement a failure

  23-07-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration took a hammer to one of the most significant Republican foreign policy achievements in the past five decades on Thursday, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declaring U.S. engagement with China a dismal failure.As the administration sharpens its already harsh criticism of China with distinctly political overtones ahead of November’s election, Pompeo traveled to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on Thursday to pointedly lament that
  
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• U.S. clears way for drugmakers to share COVID antibody capacity

  23-07-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a letter to Lilly, Amgen, AbCellera Biologics, AstraZeneca Plc, Roche Holding's Genentech unit and GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the DOJ said demand for monoclonal antibodies targeting COVID-19 is likely to exceed what one firm could produce on its own.The drugmakers are in various stages of developing experimental monoclonal antibodies - manufactured proteins designed to bind to a targeted cell, neutralize it and mark it for destruction by the immune system - for treatment, or even prevention, of COV
  
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• Open schools for younger kids, top pediatrician says

  23-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Younger children pose a smaller risk of catching and transmitting the coronavirus, a top pediatrician told Congress on Thursday.
  
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• Maryland governor criticizes Trump on virus response

  23-07-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The nation's governors were priming for battle against the coronavirus as early as February, but President Donald Trump's lackadaisical approach to the spreading disease hindered a national response, according to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, chairman of the National Governors Association.Trump initially was “downplaying" the threat and saying “this virus is going to disappear," despite grave warnings from top national experts, Hogan told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday."T
  
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• GOP relief bill has less unemployment aid and $20 billion for farmers

  23-07-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Republican coronavirus relief bill includes no local aid, smaller unemployment benefits and $20 billion for farmers.
  
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• The Media Can’t Stop Misleading on Guns

  23-07-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the possible exception of religion, there is no issue in American political life that is as poorly covered as guns. At RealClearPolitics, John Lott reports that legacy media outlets often quite literally allow anti–Second Amendment activists to write their news stories on gun policy. Politico hasn’t quite done that today, but . . . well, I’m not sure having reporters dutifully repackaging Everytown USA press releases is any better.Politico’s piece is headli
  
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• White House budget director: Trump disappointed payroll tax cut won't make it into next relief bill

  23-07-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House budget director Russell Vought on plans for unemployment benefits, relief bill amid coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Trump has dug himself into a deeper hole in Florida, highlighting how far he's slipped among seniors

  23-07-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump was already trailing Biden among seniors nationwide, but new polling shows a troubling trend for the president in his new home state of Florida.
  
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• U.S. Senator Duckworth floats plan to rescue coal country

  23-07-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth on Thursday unveiled a plan to rehabilitate communities hurt by the decline of the U.S. coal industry - an appeal to a political constituency seen as important in the November election.The bill would direct investment to communities reeling from closures of mines and coal-fired power plants in recent years, to create new jobs and help them grapple with issues like opiod addiction and black lung disease https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal-blacklung-insig
  
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• Portland standoff with US agents ongoing after mayor gassed

  23-07-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The tense standoff between demonstrators and federal police dispatched to Portland, Oregon, dragged on Thursday after the city's mayor was tear-gassed by U.S. government agents as he made an appearance outside a federal courthouse during raucous protests.Mayor Ted Wheeler and hundreds of others Wednesday night were objecting to the presence of federal police sent by President Donald Trump, who labeled the demonstrators as "agitators & anarchists” after Wheeler was gassed.
  
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• Florida poll puts Biden 13 points over Trump

  23-07-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida is seemingly reconsidering its narrow 2016 vote for President Trump.While Trump won the state by just a percentage point in 2016, former Vice President Joe Biden has pulled ahead of Trump 51-38, a Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday indicates. Approval for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is also down 31 points since the last Quinnipiac Florida poll in April, suggesting rampant COVID-19 spread in the state is at least partially to blame.Quinnipiac's April poll gave Biden only a 46-42 lead over
  
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• Court upholds Alex Jones sanctions in Sandy Hook case

  23-07-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a sanction against Infowars host Alex Jones over an angry outburst on his web show against an attorney for relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, who are suing him for defamation.The court issued a 7-0 decision rejecting Jones' claims that his comments aimed at attorney Christopher Mattei were protected by free speech rights, and upholding a lower court's ruling that Jones violated numerous orders to turn over docu
  
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• White House, GOP senators inch closer to coronavirus relief proposal

  23-07-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the White House and Senate Republicans had reached a "fundamental agreement."
  
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• Trump administration to be investigated over use of force against protesters in Portland

  23-07-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Inspectors general at the Justice Department and Homeland Security Department are launching separate probes into the Trump administration's deployment of federal law enforcement officers to Portland, Oregon, and various complaints over their use of force on demonstrators, they announced on Thursday.In a letter to three House Democratic committee chairs — Jerry Nadler of the Judiciary panel, Carolyn Maloney of the Oversight panel, and Benny Thompson of the Homeland Security panel — th
  
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• Letters to the Editor: First they came for Portland, soon Chicago. It's time to be scared

  23-07-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With storm troopers terrorizing Portland and soon Chicago, Trump is acting like a certain German dictator in the 1930s and 40s.
  
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• Venezuela opposition to probe possible resale of oil by Cuba

  23-07-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Carlos Vecchio, whom Guaido named his ambassador to Washington after being recognized as Venezuela's rightful president by dozens of countries, said President Nicolas Maduro's government was "getting nothing back" from its shipments to Cuba.Guaido, the speaker of the opposition-held National Assembly, argues Maduro's 2018 re-election was a sham.OPEC-member Venezuela, whose oil exports have been crippled by U.S. sanctions meant to pressure Maduro to resign, sent 14.1 million barrels of oil to Cub
  
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• The Battle of Portland: Trump's escalating tactics against protesters are backfiring in Oregon

  23-07-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A report from night 50 of the Black Lives Matter protests that have rocked Portland and focused national attention on the Trump administration’s efforts to suppress protests that sometimes carry a violent edge.
  
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• Pakistani journalist recounts ordeal, abduction by armed men

  23-07-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Pakistani journalist known for his criticism of the country’s military on Thursday recounted his ordeal this week when armed men abducted him in broad daylight and held him captive for a day.It was the first time Matiullah Jan, who was freed on Tuesday, shared details about his 12-hour detention.Jan chose to release a video in which explains how he had dropped off his wife on Tuesday morning at a school in Islamabad where she works and was checking messages on his phone, his car still pa
  
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• Two of the ISIS terrorists dubbed the Beatles admit involvement in captivity of Kayla Mueller, James Foley

  23-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In exclusive interviews, the two men, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, for the first time admitted their involvement in the captivity of Mueller.
  
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• The U.S. Now Has 4 Million COVID-19 Cases, With No End in Sight

  23-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  And that number is likely an undercount
  
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• Trump: Vote-By-Mail Is Rigged. Trump’s Campaign? It’s ‘Easy And Secure.’

  23-07-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “REQUEST YOUR ABSENTEE BALLOT TODAY,” reads a mailer sent to North Carolina Republicans earlier this week by the North Carolina Trump Victory campaign, the Trump campaign’s joint field operation with the Republican National Committee in the state. The mailer, part of a push to contact more than three million voters in the state, calls voting by mail “easy and secure,” and urges recipients to use the “Official Republican Party Absentee Ballot Application to saf
  
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• Qantas just retired the iconic Boeing 747 with a commemorative last flight flown by the airline's first female captain who drew a kangaroo in the sky

  23-07-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Qantas ended the near-50-year reign of the Australian Queen of the Skies, the jet that opened up Australia to the rest of the world.
  
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• Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Prohibit Federal Funding for Schools Using ‘1619 Project’ Curriculum

  23-07-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced a law on Thursday that would prohibit federal funding for schools that incorporate curriculum from the New York Times's “1619 Project.”The 1619 Project, named after the year when colonists first brought slaves to the U.S., attempts to retell American history by emphasizing the importance of slavery in the country's earliest years. However, historians have criticized the project for basic "factual errors" and a " displacement of historical
  
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• Democrats: Packets sent to Trump allies are part of foreign plot to damage Biden

  23-07-2020 21:25 via politico.com
  
  The packets were shipped to leading Republicans by a Ukrainian lawmaker who has met with the president's attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
  
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• Mysterious 'blue hole' near Florida wows scientists

  23-07-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The hole is about 425 feet deep and is located some 155 feet below the water's surface, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  
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• The price of the F-35 has been falling, but it could hit a wall soon

  23-07-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  How much lower can the price of an F-35A go?
  
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• Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant dies after testing positive for COVID-19

  23-07-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant died after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this month in California.
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's jailing 'was retaliation' for book

  23-07-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge found Michael Cohen's re-arrest to be in retaliation for a book critical of Donald Trump.
  
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• 'A handshake is a handshake': Friends split $22M Powerball jackpot, honoring years-old agreement

  23-07-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tom Cook and Joe Feeney are splitting a $22 million jackpot after Cook bought the winning ticket in Wisconsin.
  
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• From Portland to Buenos Aires, mothers demonstrate leadership in protests

  23-07-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mothers in Portland, Ore., and elsewhere have played key roles in organizing protests. They're not the first.
  
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• The coronavirus curves are starting to flatten — again. But complacency now could prove deadly.

  23-07-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the coming days, some people — including possibly President Trump — may start to tout these improving numbers as a sign that the tide is turning in America’s long battle against the coronavirus.In response, the U.S. faces a choice. Either the rest of the country — including the 40 or so states where cases are still climbing — can learn from how New York and its neighbors behaved when they peaked in the spring: cautious, vigilant, data-driven and slow to return to
  
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• Karl Rove: Biden’s lazy new ideas could be opportunity for team Trump

  23-07-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News contributor Karl Rove weighs in on Joe Biden’s campaign strategy on ‘The Daily Briefing.’
  
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• China Is Now on Its Way to Mars

  23-07-2020 21:08 via popularmechanics.com
  
  The ambitious Tianwen-1 mission is sending an orbiter, lander, and rover to the Red Planet. Fingers crossed.
  
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• FBI interviewing Chinese visa holders suspected of hiding military ties: Justice Department

  23-07-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FBI has interviewed visa holders in more than 25 U.S. cities suspected of hiding their Chinese military memberships, the Justice Department said on Thursday, as part of what experts called the biggest known crackdown on the theft of U.S. know-how in more than 40 years of Sino-U.S. relations.The Justice Department announcement likely will fuel tensions between the world's two largest economies that have grown since the Trump administration ordered China to shutter its consulate in Houston, Te
  
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• 'Having a daughter does not make a man decent': Ocasio-Cortez criticizes Rep. Yoho for 'refusing responsibility' in his apology

  23-07-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed Rep. Ted Yoho's comments, saying his language was "dehumanizing" and criticizing his apology.
  
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• Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says anyone who got a $1,200 stimulus check the first time is likely to get one again for the same amount

  23-07-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats in Congress have pushed to include more people, like students, in this round of direct cash payments.
  
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• CNN Anchor Blasts Fox News Doc: He’s ‘More of a Sycophant Than a Doctor’

  23-07-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN anchor Brianna Keilar tore into Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel on Thursday, taking aim at Siegel’s Trump-friendly coronavirus coverage and downplaying of the pandemic while labeling him a “sycophant.”Coming off an obsequious interview with President Donald Trump that saw the president telling Siegel he was his coronavirus “guide,” the Fox News doctor on Thursday gushed over the president’s ability to recall five words.“In a sense, that
  
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