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• Former Conservative minister arrested at home after woman accuses him of rape

  01-08-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former minister was arrested at his home on Saturday after a woman accused him of rape and sexual assault. The senior Conservative MP, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was taken into custody in the morning shortly before the Metropolitan Police announced it had launched an investigation. The man, in his 50’s, remained in custody at a police station in East London on Saturday night. A Metropolitan Police Service statement said officers received allegations relating to “four se
  
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• A day after Trump floated delaying the presidential election, which he cannot do, the White House condemned Hong Kong for delaying its election

  01-08-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hong Kong's move to postpone its vote "undermines" its "democratic processes," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Friday.
  
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• This map lets you compare how the proposed unemployment extensions would impact weekly payments in your state

  01-08-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the $600 weekly payments end, a new map shows what the unemployment benefits would look like in every state for each extension proposal.
  
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• President Trump's son Barron won't attend in-person classes at private school due to county-wide mandate

  01-08-2020 23:36 via nydailynews.com
  Barron Trump will not return to in-person classes at his Maryland private school until October - even as his president father threatens to cut much-needed funding to school districts that go remote this fall. Barron, 14, and other students at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, won't return to campus until Oct. 1, following a county directive issued Friday. "Nonpublic schools ...
  
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• Florida battens down for Tropical Storm Isaias, which will move up U.S. East Coast

  01-08-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The storm is expected to move near Florida on Saturday afternoon through Sunday before heading north along the U.S. East Coast.
  
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• Watch live: 2 NASA astronauts are flying SpaceX's new Crew Dragon ship away from the International Space Station to begin an historic return to Earth

  01-08-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley plan to undock SpaceX's Crew Dragon from the ISS around 7:34 p.m. ET and splash down on Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Donald Trump claims Anthony Fauci 'wrong' about cause of Covid-19 surge

  01-08-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President again contradicts his own health expert after doctor highlights troubled US response to virusDonald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on his own top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, arguing against the doctor’s claim that high rates of infection in the US stem from a less aggressive reaction to the virus in terms of economic shutdowns and stay-at-home orders.“Wrong!” countered the president as he retweeted a video of Fauci making the point in recent c
  
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• Trump publicly criticized Fauci again and called his congressional testimony 'wrong!'

  01-08-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fauci testified on Friday that the US had shut down only about 50% of the country, compared to a 95% shutdown in Europe. Trump wasn't happy.
  
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• Bill Clinton's spokesperson again denies the former president ever visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island

  01-08-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A recently unsealed interview revealed that Virginia Giuffre alleged she saw Bill Clinton on the private island with "two young girls."
  
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• The British role in America's tainted past

  01-08-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alongside calls for reform, historians say a re-examination of how US racism got to this point is needed.
  
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• South Africa's COVID-19 cases surpass half a million

  01-08-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Africa's confirmed cases of COVID-19 have crossed half a million, its health ministry said on Saturday, while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million.Africa's most industrialised nation recorded 10,107 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, pushing the total to 503,290, the ministry said.Just over 3 million people have so far been tested for the virus in South Africa, which confirmed its first case five months ago, and 8,153 deaths
  
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• Expect 'lengthy' coronavirus pandemic, warns WHO

  01-08-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organization on Saturday warned the coronavirus pandemic was likely to be "lengthy" after its emergency committee met to evaluate the crisis six months after sounding the international alarm. The committee "highlighted the anticipated lengthy duration of this COVID-19 pandemic", the WHO said in a statement, and warned of the risk of "response fatigue" given the socio-economic pressures on countries. The panel gathered Friday for the fourth time over the coronavirus crisis, half
  
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• South Africa hits 500,000 confirmed cases, still not at peak

  01-08-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Africa on Saturday surpassed 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, representing more than 50% of all reported coronavirus infections in Africa's 54 countries.Experts say the true toll of the pandemic worldwide is much higher than confirmed cases, due to limited testing and other reasons.
  
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• Politico: Homeland Security Removing Top Intel Officer

  01-08-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A source told Politico that Brian Murphy could be removedfollowing criticism about his role in the Portland protests.
  
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• Joe Biden buries the hatchet and looks to bring in Kamala Harris as running mate

  01-08-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Friday night, supporters of Joe Biden received an urgent message from his campaign email address. But it wasn’t from the Democrat presidential nominee. It was from Kamala Harris. Underneath a picture of herself, the California senator wrote: “I know Joe’s heart, and I’ve seen first-hand his compassion and dedication to public service. He’ll be a president for all of us, and I’m giving everything I’ve got to help him succeed this year.” It was a
  
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• Trump creates stir with suggestion to delay Election Day over mail-in voting

  01-08-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street Journal columnist Karl Rove breaks down the latest from the 2020 campaign trail.
  
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• Democrats and Republicans have 'most productive' stimulus talk to date, but deal still 'not imminent'

  01-08-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats and Republicans had the 'most productive' stimulus talk to date, but are still far from a deal after unemployment benefits expire.
  
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• Carolinas expected to bear the brunt of Isaias

  01-08-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Isaias lashed the Bahamas as a Category 1 hurricane, making landfall over Andros Island around midday Saturday, before it approaches the Florida coast on Sunday and then eyes the southeastern U.S. coast early in the week.Isaias is expected to turn to the north Sunday, taking it on a path right along the Florida coast before it is predicted to turn more northeasterly and strike the Carolinas early week.Even though the Carolinas are predicted to take the brunt of Isaias, the exact impacts will dep
  
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• Washington State Trapped Its First 'Murder Hornet'

  01-08-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trapping Asian giant hornets is a crucial component for catching and killing the invasive species
  
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• SpaceX is about to win a high-stakes game of capture the flag that Barack Obama started 9 years ago

  01-08-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On the International Space Station, the American flag that SpaceX claimed has a note: "Do not forget to take with Crew Dragon."
  
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• A Black Lives Matter mural is set to be removed in Tulsa after the city received a request for a pro-police painting

  01-08-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Allowing one group to paint messages on the street means everyone would be able to do so," Tulsa City attorney said, adding that murals shouldn't be allowed for safety reasons.
  
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• SpaceX Crew Dragon heads for Sunday splashdown

  01-08-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Splashdown will set the stage for operational Crew Dragon flights to begin later this year.
  
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• Southern California wildfire forces evacuations

  01-08-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Apple fire burning in Riverside County, about 75 miles east of Los Angeles, sparked the evacuation of hundreds of homes.
  
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• Current USPS days-long backlog in mail delivery raises concerns about mail-in ballot process

  01-08-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some state election officials say it will be impossible to count all the votes on Election Day; Michelle Lee, national politics reporter at The Washington Post, weighs in.
  
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• Coronavirus updates: New tests measure amount of antibodies in blood; Louisiana ravaged twice by virus; cruise crews test positive

  01-08-2020 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FDA authorizes the first COVID-19 tests that analyze the amount of antibodies in the blood. Latest COVID-19 news Saturday.
  
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• As Trump threatens to ban TikTok, Sarah Cooper mocks him, again, on the platform

  01-08-2020 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After President Trump threatened to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, Sarah Cooper took to the app to impersonate him yet again and explain"how to tick tack."
  
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• Rep. Raúl Grijalva tests positive for coronavirus

  01-08-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Arizona congressman had been at a committee hearing Tuesday with Rep. Louie Gohmert, who also tested positive earlier this week.
  
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• SpaceX has a 'go' from NASA to return 2 astronauts to Earth on Sunday as Hurricane Isaias threatens several Florida splashdown locations

  01-08-2020 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will try splashing down near Pensacola or Panama City on Sunday as Hurricane Isaias batters Florida.
  
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• $300 for a Hat? The Fyre Festival Merch Auction Is as Weird as You’d Expect

  01-08-2020 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a final nod to the infamously botched Fyre Festival, U.S. Marshals have started auctioning off unsold merchandise—including a baseball hat already fetching $300—in an attempt to recoup some money for victims of the 2017 musical festival scam.The auction, started Thursday by Texas auction house Gaston & Sheehan, includes 126 items ranging from apparel to wristbands and Fyre “tokens” from the $26 million scam. The items, the U.S. Marshals said in a statement, are bei
  
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• Exclusive: TikTok's Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal - sources

  01-08-2020 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China's ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app, two people familiar with the matter said on Saturday.U.S. officials have said TikTok under its Chinese parent poses a national risk because of the personal data it handles.ByteDance's concession will test whether Trump's threat to ban TikTok is a negotiating tactic, or whether h
  
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• Fact check: Cleveland Clinic never told employees cloth face masks 'don't work'

  01-08-2020 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The clinic instructed workers not to wear cloth masks in its facilities in favor of masks with more protection, but it still endorses cloth mask use.
  
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• Arizona congressman tests positive for virus; 2nd this week

  01-08-2020 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee said Saturday he tested positive for the coronavirus days after he sat close to another member of the panel, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, who also tested positive.Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said in a statement that he has the virus but, like Gohmert, has no symptoms.It's unclear where Grijalva, 72, caught the virus and whether it was from Gohmert, a Republican who has questioned the use of masks and often walked around the Capitol without one.
  
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• Arizona congressman tests positive for coronavirus

  01-08-2020 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representative Raul Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, has tested positive for coronavirus but feels fine and has gone into isolation, he said in a statement on Saturday.Grijalva, 72, was told of the positive test by the attending physician of the capitol, he said.Grijalva chaired a hearing this week attended by Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican who has also tested positive and who has been photographed without a mask.
  
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• Democratic congressman calls out maskless GOP colleagues after positive coronavirus test

  01-08-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Raúl Grijalva (R-Ariz.) on Saturday announced he is the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID-19. The 72-year-old congressman, who said he currently has no symptoms and feels fine, had been isolating after coming into contact with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), who tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this week.Grijalva did not call Gohmert out by name, but he did say this week has revealed the consequences of the actions of Republican lawmakers who have gone to
  
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• U.S. Navy's first Black female fighter pilot gets her Wings of Gold

  01-08-2020 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It would've been nice to see someone who looked like me in this role; I never intended to be the first. I hope it's encouraging to other people," said Swegle.
  
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• The Maryland county where Barron Trump attends school has ordered private schools to stay closed until October

  01-08-2020 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite the president's repeated call for schools to open to students, his son's Maryland private school will remain closed due to a county order.
  
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• Connie Culp, 1st US partial face transplant recipient, dies

  01-08-2020 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Connie Culp, the recipient of the first partial face transplant in the U.S., has died at 57, almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation. The Cleveland Clinic, where her surgery had been performed in 2008, said Saturday that Culp died Wednesday at the Ohio clinic of complications from an infection unrelated to her transplant. Dr. Frank Papay, who is the chair of Cleveland Clinic’s dermatology and plastic surgery institute and was part of Culp's surgical team, called her “
  
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• Netflix is turning an Ubisoft game from 2003 into a feature film

  01-08-2020 19:24
  
  Netflix has revealed its latest adaptation plans, stating that it will be turning Ubisoft’s Beyond Good and Evil into a feature film. The announcement was accompanied by an image that teases the style of the game and its main characters. Fans can expect a movie that sticks with the space pirates theme, one that is firmly in the adventure genre. … Continue reading
  
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• Bass addresses past remarks praising Scientology

  01-08-2020 19:22 via politico.com
  
  The top-tier contender to be Joe Biden's running mate said in a statement she was trying to find an “area of agreement” with the church.
  
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• A 'murder hornet' has been trapped for the first time in Washington after several confirmed sightings

  01-08-2020 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Asian giant hornet can be as large as over 2 inches and are capable of "tearing honeybees in half," according to the US Department of Agriculture.
  
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• US Marshals put Fyre Festival merchandise up for auction

  01-08-2020 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than three years after the highly publicized Fyre Festival famously fizzled out in the Bahamas, merchandise and other “minor assets” are up for sale — courtesy of the U.S. Marshals Service.In a release Thursday, the U.S. Marshals announced that 126 items from the festival will be auctioned off, with proceeds going toward the victims of Billy McFarland.McFarlandacknowledged defrauding investors of $26 million in the 2017 Fyre Festival and over $100,000 in a fraudulent ticke
  
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• India toxic alcohol: Dozens die in Punjab poisoning

  01-08-2020 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police make arrests and confiscate supplies of bootleg alcohol which killed at least 86 people.
  
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• TikTok's Chinese parent company reportedly agrees to divest app's U.S. operations

  01-08-2020 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has agreed to completely sever ties with the social media app's U.S. operations with Microsoft taking over, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters Saturday.The report comes a day after President Trump said he planned to ban the popular video app in the U.S. amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing. TikTok became caught up in the conflict over the U.S.'s growing concerns that ByteDance was harboring users' personal data, which the T
  
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• Secretary Mnuchin, Mark Meadows update status of negotiations on COVID relief package

  01-08-2020 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows address reporters on Capitol Hill following meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
  
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• Hurricane Heads for Florida—Just as Coronavirus Deaths Hit New Record

  01-08-2020 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Florida struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic that has killed at least 7,000 residents, state officials are now scrambling to deal with another dueling disaster gaining momentum: Hurricane Isaias. “It’s just another thing to add to the torture,” Inez Cruz, a teacher in Palm Beach County, told the Washington Post. “It’s another worry on top of what we already had.”The National Hurricane Center estimated Isaias will make landfall in southeast Flo
  
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• Schumer calls latest round of coronavirus relief talks most productive yet, but sides still 'not close'

  01-08-2020 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress ended the week in a deadlock after days of negotiating the next iteration of the CARES coronavirus relief bill, allowing the $600/week unemployment boost to expire without a replacement plan in place. As a result, nearly 30 million U.S. workers will now have a lapse in their unemployment benefits. But talks continued on Saturday, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sitting down for several hours with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuc
  
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• Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina declare emergencies as Hurricane Isaias hits the Bahamas and barrels toward the east coast

  01-08-2020 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The governors of Virginia and North Carolina declared states of emergency, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared an emergency for some counties.
  
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• SpaceX plans to return 2 NASA astronauts to Earth on Sunday as Hurricane Isaias threatens their ocean-splashdown locations near Florida

  01-08-2020 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After 2 months in space, NASA's Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are targeting a splash down near Florida on Sunday. But Hurricane Isaias may intervene.
  
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• TikTok teens are making memes saying they'll show up at the White House to confront Trump over app ban

  01-08-2020 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump on Friday said he'd issue an executive order to ban TikTok in the US. Creators on the platform responded in true TikTok fashion.
  
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• Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi discuss emergency negotiations on COVID relief bill

  01-08-2020 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We're not close yet, but it was a productive discussion, says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
  
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