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• Under ICE rules and visa complications, a semester with no new international students awaits

  30-07-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the resurgence of coronavirus pushes some schools to go fully online, the latest ruling leaves new international students with hard choices.
  
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• How Kamala Harris rose from California's 'top cop' to Joe Biden's potential vice presidential running mate

  30-07-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Kamala Harris went from San Francisco district attorney to a presidential candidate in just eight years.
  
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• Trump news: President doubles down on possible election delay and threatens to send National Guard to Portland

  30-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's tweet suggesting that the 2020 presidential election could be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic set off a day of wild speculation as to whether he would, could, or how that would even look if he did.After saying that a mail-in ballot system would create the "most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history", the president double-downed during his White House press conference, saying he doesn't want to wait weeks, months or even years for the result of the election to be
  
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• The astronauts who flew SpaceX's Crew Dragon to the space station are set to come home on Sunday. Watch their fiery return flight live.

  30-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Saturday and Sunday, SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship will make its return trip to Earth. Here's how to watch that journey live.
  
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• 'People were sick to their stomachs with his fake sincerity': Frustrated Amazon sellers slam Bezos for claiming his retail platform empowers small businesses

  30-07-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos maintained that Amazon elevates small business owners, like its Amazon sellers. Some Amazon sellers don't agree.
  
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• Trump did not attend John Lewis' funeral. Here are 4 other major funerals he missed while president.

  30-07-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has been MIA at a handful of funerals where former presidents and dignitaries attended and delivered eulogies.
  
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• British Airways is auctioning millions of dollars worth of lounge art in a hasty attempt to raise cash – see the extravagant collection

  30-07-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The entire collection was valued by auction house Sotheby's at around $1.7 million but one piece auctioned so far fetched more than that by itself.
  
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• Hypersonic Weapons Testing Faces a Big Problem: Killer Whales

  30-07-2020 23:30 via popularmechanics.com
  
  Washington State officials say that planned firings of the new Hyper Velocity Projectile will harass killer whales, a federally protected marine mammal.
  
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• Mexican ex-security minister hit with new charge in U.S. corruption case

  30-07-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Garcia Luna, a minister during the term of former President Felipe Calderon, now faces a charge of "engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise," the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.In January, Garcia Luna pleaded not guilty to accusations of drug trafficking conspiracy and making false statements.Two former law enforcement officials who worked under Garcia Luna were also each charged with three counts of cocaine trafficking, the DOJ said on Thursday.
  
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• Black conservative journalist stabbed at Portland protest, ‘This is no longer about black lives’

  30-07-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrew Duncomb, a 25-year-old Black Trump supporter and journalist said he was stabbed outside Portland’s federal courthouse for his conservative politics. In his first on-camera interview, Duncomb shares his firsthand account of being knifed in the back while out filming a protest in Portland early Saturday morning.
  
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• US frowns upon Iranian supermarket in Venezuela's capital

  30-07-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. officials frowned upon the opening of an Iranian supermarket in Venezuela's capital, saying Thursday that any presence of Iran in the Western Hemisphere is "not something we look very favorably on.”Acting Assistant Secretary for U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Michael Kozak told journalists in a call that the opening of the market shows this is like an alliance of “pariah” states.“I would be surely surprised if Venezuela is able
  
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• Mexican president orders creation of state-run medicine agency

  30-07-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's government will create a state-run medicine distribution agency and will sign an agreement with the United Nations to purchase cheaper drugs and vaccines on the international market, the country's president said on Thursday.Lopez Obrador said the distribution agency will make sure residents even in the far-flung corners of Mexico have access to medications and vaccines.The current head of Mexico's civil protection agency, David Leon, will lead the new state-run agency.
  
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• Prosecutor: No charges for officer in Michael Brown’s death

  30-07-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  St. Louis County’s prosecutor announced Thursday that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about racial injustice and the police treatment of people of color.Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell's decision marked the third time prosecutors investigated and opted not to charge Darren Wilson, the white officer who fatally shot Brown, a Bl
  
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• 'Terrible story': Trump meets with Vanessa Guillen's family as they push for military sexual harassment reforms

  30-07-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump met Thursday with the family of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, who disappeared from Fort Hood in April and whose remains were found earlier this month.
  
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• Fact check: Joe Biden didn't take a knee upon seeing a flag; he was talking to a child

  30-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While visiting his childhood home this month, the presidential candidate kneeled to talk to a child. It's false to say he "took a knee" for the flag.
  
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• 'It's About the Core Values of Black Lives Matter.' Portland Activists Are Trying to Remind People Why They Started Protesting to Begin With

  30-07-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police brutality was a “problem way before the (federal) troops came,” says Demetria Hester, a Black mother and grandmother who has frequently been showing up to protests since May.
  
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• Tropical Storm Isaias sets a new hurricane-season record as it triggers blackouts and flooding in Puerto Rico

  30-07-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Isaias caused power outages and flooding in Puerto Rico. It's headed toward southern Florida.
  
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• U.S. government to launch 'overwhelming' COVID-19 vaccine campaign by November

  30-07-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The fine line we are walking is getting the American people very excited about vaccines and missing expectations versus having a bunch of vaccines in the warehouse and not as many people want to get it," the official said."You may not hear a lot about promoting vaccines over the airwaves in August and September but you'll be overwhelmed by it come November."The official cautioned that there is still uncertainty around the timing of when a vaccine will actually be available.
  
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• ‘He’s Terrified of Losing’—Trump Goes Into Hyperdrive to Delegitimize the Election

  30-07-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As much of the political world went into an uproar over Donald Trump floating the idea of delaying the November election, inside the president’s orbit, his Thursday morning tweet suggesting just that was seen as something far narrower and more strategically focused.The president isn’t really trying to delay the vote. He is trying to preemptively delegitimize the likely results.Two administration officials and another individual close to the president say that what they saw Thursday m
  
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• Kamala Harris is on Joe Biden's vice presidential shortlist. Here's what the former presidential candidate ran on.

  30-07-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kamala Harris, a US senator from California, is also the state's former attorney general. She dropped out of the race on December 3.
  
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• There is no 'zero risk' in easing travel restrictions, WHO says

  30-07-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a long-awaited update to its guidance on travel, the United Nations global health agency said cross-border trips for emergencies, humanitarian work, the transfer of essential personnel and repatriation would constitute essential travel."There is no 'zero risk' when considering the potential importation or exportation of cases in the context of international travel," it said in the updated guidance posted on its website on Thursday.A surge of new infections in many parts of the world has promp
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell files emergency appeal to block release of deposition on her sex life

  30-07-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, on Thursday urged a U.S. appeals court to block the release of a deposition about her sex life, saying it could destroy her ability to get a fair trial against criminal charges she aided the late financier's sexual abuse of girls.Maxwell filed an emergency request with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan one day after a federal judge rejected her claim that her need for confidentiality outweighed the public's right to s
  
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• Minnesota police make arrest in 34-year cold case using DNA, genetic testing

  30-07-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “My mom loved to help people,” her daughter Gina Haggard wrote in a statement read by police.
  
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• Poll puts Biden over Trump in 6 swing states

  30-07-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden is still looking good in key swing states across the country.In May, a poll from a British consulting firm Redfield & Wilton Strategies put Biden ahead of President Trump in six states Trump won in 2016: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Redfield & Wilton Strategies' July poll shows Biden still has a lead in all of those states, and even widened it in three of them.While Biden had 4 percent lead over Trump in Arizona,
  
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• Trump loyalist who tested positive for coronavirus is America’s ‘dumbest’ congressman, says Lincoln Project co-founder

  30-07-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The co-founder of Republican anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project has called congressman Louie Gohmert ”America’s craziest and dumbest congressman”, following confirmation he tested positive for coronavirus.Steve Schmidt co-founded the Republican political action committee that is aiming to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump, alongside George Conway, the husband of the president’s adviser Kellyanne Conway.
  
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• Roads turned into rivers amid heavy rain

  30-07-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Flash floods across Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, turned roads into fast-moving rivers on July 30.
  
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• 260 Chinese boats fish near Galapagos; Ecuador on alert

  30-07-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some call it a floating city, a flotilla of 260 mostly Chinese fishing vessels near the Galapagos archipelago that is stirring diplomatic tension and raising worries about the threat to sharks, manta rays and other vulnerable species in waters around the UNESCO world heritage site.The Chinese fleet is “very close" to the edge of the exclusive economic zone around the Galapagos, which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from the archipelago, said its governor, Norman Wray.
  
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• Trudeau says he didn't offer charity preferential treatment

  30-07-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he did not intervene to make sure a charity his family did paid work for would win a government contract.Trudeau has apologized and said again that he should have recused himself from a Cabinet decision to award a contract to administer money to students having trouble finding work due to the pandemic.“We Charity received no preferential treatment, not from me, not from anyone else,” said Trudeau, who noted it was the government pu
  
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• FBI: Review of surveillance applications found minor errors

  30-07-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FBI said Thursday that it found mostly minor errors during a review of more than two dozen applications for national security surveillance warrants, suggesting the problems were less serious than the Justice Department inspector general had made them out to be earlier this year.The FBI statement appeared aimed at countering the findings of a harshly critical audit issued in March by the Justice Department's watchdog, which identified problems in all 29 wiretap applications that it had review
  
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• CDC: Hundreds sick, 1 dead in nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to chicks, ducklings

  30-07-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One person has died and nearly 1,000 have been sickened, the CDC says. Every state except Hawaii and Rhode Island has now reported at least one case.
  
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• Austin, Texas, joins growing number of U.S. cities in declaring racism a 'public health crisis'

  30-07-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of cities and counties have passed similar declarations in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
  
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• Republican says he will take Trump-promoted Covid-19 treatment after implying he contracted coronavirus by wearing a mask

  30-07-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Texas Republican who tested positive for Covid-19 wrongly suggested he may have contracted the novel coronavirus by wearing a face mask — and said he would be taking an unproven treatment touted by Donald Trump.Louie Gohmert (R—Tx) tested positive on Wednesday during a White House procedural screening just before he was set to fly with the president to Texas on Air Force One.
  
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• Trump says he'll help with funeral costs for slain soldier

  30-07-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump met Thursday with the family of a soldier who investigators say was slain on the Texas Army base where she was stationed, saying it is a “terrible story” and that he would help with funeral expenses.Vanessa Guillen, whose remains were found July 2 following her disappearance in April from Fort Hood, rallied with several dozen supporters before the meeting with Trump, calling for justice in the case and for changes in the way the military handles sexual abuse an
  
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• 3 Georgia inmates are being praised for rescuing their guard after he fell unconscious and split his head open

  30-07-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The story of the inmates' rescue drew attention on social media and prompted donations to the inmates' accounts, according to the sheriff's office.
  
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• Congress awards its highest honor to USS Indianapolis crew

  30-07-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress has awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor, to surviving crew members of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered key components of the first nuclear bomb and was later sunk by Japan during World War II.Retired Navy Capt. William Toti, who led a nuclear submarine named in honor of the Indianapolis, said the Gold Medal honors the crew's accomplishments — not the fact that the ship was sunk.
  
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• Republicans dismiss Trump's suggestion to postpone November election

  30-07-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Never in the history of the country, through wars, depressions and the Civil War, have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
  
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• Obama Attacks Trump Admin’s Protest Crackdown, Voter Suppression in John Lewis Eulogy

  30-07-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The late congressman John Lewis famously encouraged Americans to stir up “good trouble,” and former President Barack Obama did just that in his eulogy for the late civil rights pioneer on Thursday. Obama earned multiple standing ovations during a speech littered with political barbs aimed at the Trump administration’s crackdown on Black Lives Matter protesters and stymied efforts to address voter suppression.Recounting Lewis’ relentless activism, Obama said the country &l
  
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• Ohio pharmacy board reverses ban on hydroxychloroquine after GOP Gov. DeWine’s request

  30-07-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Ohio pharmacy board changed course on its ban of hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment following the governor’s urging to do so.
  
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• Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after battle with COVID-19

  30-07-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cain ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
  
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• China is ramping up propaganda to cover up human rights abuses against Uighurs

  30-07-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China has spent years cracking down on the freedoms of its Uighur Muslim minority. And as the rest of the world starts to take notice, China has ramped up propaganda efforts to hide just what it's doing, a report published Thursday from the Uighur Human Rights Project reveals.The United Nations estimates more than a million Uighurs have been held in concentration and re-education camps, while others face constant surveillance and imprisonment for anything deemed suspicious. Uighurs' forced labor
  
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• The US Postal Service will reportedly reduce post office hours to save money

  30-07-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A USPS spokesperson didn't elaborate on how USPS locations would ensure service to customers after reducing hours.
  
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• The US Postal Service will reduce post-office hours to save money, report says

  30-07-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A USPS spokesperson didn't elaborate on how USPS locations would ensure service to customers after reducing hours.
  
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• Family of Black college student killed by white police officer draws support from Jay-Z, Rihanna and Amy Schumer in bid to reopen case

  30-07-2020 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  College football standout Danroy "DJ" Henry Jr., 20, was shot and killed by a white police officer outside a New York bar on Oct. 17, 2010, as he drove away from a disturbance he was not involved in. Nearly 10 years later, celebrities join the victim’s family to demand that the case be reopened.
  
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• Delay the election? Take Trump seriously. Laws and the Constitution haven't stopped him yet.

  30-07-2020 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Look at Trump's track record and don't take his threats lightly, no matter how far-fetched or outrageous they seem. They reveal him for who he is.
  
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• Nightmare for Harvey: Ashley Judd Wins Key Ruling in Sexual Harassment Suit

  30-07-2020 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ashley Judd’s sexual harassment lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein will move forward after the actress won a crucial appeal Wednesday.Judd first sued Weinstein for harassment, retaliation, and defamation in 2018, over an incident in which Weinstein invited her to his hotel room in the mid-1990s, asked her to watch him shower, and tried to give her a massage. Judd brought her suit after news broke that Weinstein had told director Peter Jackson that she and Mira Sorvino could be a “night
  
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• More than three million Chileans seek to withdraw pensions amid pandemic

  30-07-2020 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 3 million Chileans on Thursday asked to withdraw a portion of their pension funds as a controversial law took effect allowing citizens to tap into retirement savings to buffer the economic impacts of the coronavirus.Long lines formed in Santiago outside the offices of Pension Fund Administrators (AFP) as Chileans sought to take advantage of the new law.The emergency measure allows those with savings to withdraw up to 10% of their pensions.
  
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• Man fires 'warning shots' in Miami hotel lobby after telling guests 'you all aren't social distancing'

  30-07-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man was arrested in Florida after firing "four warning shots" and telling a mother and her son that they weren't social distancing in a hotel lobby.
  
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• Millions of people undertake the Hajj every year. These photos show how different the yearly Muslim pilgrimage is this year because of the pandemic.

  30-07-2020 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This year's Hajj pilgrimage looks a little different, with holy water in pre-packaged water bottles and socially distanced prayer lines.
  
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• Americans see China more negatively than ever amid coronavirus pandemic, Trump attacks, poll finds

  30-07-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new poll finds 73 percent of Americans view China negatively, a record high as coronavirus cases spike and the Trump administration ramps up attacks on Beijing.
  
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• Republicans’ last-minute vote for unemployment benefits

  30-07-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Unemployment benefits are set to expire Friday as GOP lawmakers are hastily called to pull something together, despite a plan put out by Democrats two months ago.
  
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