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• There Are No Women Leading Marine Infantry Platoons. The Corps Wants to Change That

  05-08-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 300 female Marines have moved into combat-arms jobs that were previously open only to men.
  
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• Students at viral Georgia high school say they face expulsion for remaining home amid pandemic

  05-08-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Students at a Georgia high school that went viral this week after a photo of its crowded, mostly mask-less hallways on the first day of school surfaced online told BuzzFeed News they had little choice to attend class in person despite the coronavirus pandemic.One North Paulding High School student's parents were prepared to keep him home after seeing the photo, but when his mother spoke to the school she learned students who chose to stay home because of concerns over the virus could face expuls
  
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• Trump’s Debate Moderator Wish List Is Stacked With Fox News Stars and Pushovers

  05-08-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump campaign released a list of suggested moderators for this year’s presidential debates and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it is loaded with many of the president’s favorite right-wing pundits and Fox News personalities.As the president pushes for more debates against former Vice President Joe Biden, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday sent the presiding commission a letter requesting a fourth debate and an early September start to the events due to early mail-in votin
  
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• Rep. Marshall's primary win in Kansas buoys GOP Senate hopes

  05-08-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans brimmed with newfound confidence Wednesday about keeping an open Senate seat in Kansas after establishment-backed Rep. Roger Marshall wonthe party's nomination, advancing to face an unusually formidable Democrat in a tough year for the GOP.Marshall's first tasks were quickly refilling his campaign treasury and rebuilding Republican unity after an often-bitter primary campaign.
  
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• Trump says mail-in voting will be a 'nightmare' and 'you'll never know who the winner is, but the winner is going to be me'

  05-08-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has made so many unfounded claims on mail-in voting that he now appears to be confusing himself.
  
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• Millennium Falcon Wireless Charger

  05-08-2020 23:30 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  
  Millennium Falcon Wireless Charger – Jump to lightspeed-level charging with this one! We promise Lando won’t try to take it back from you!
  Millennium Falcon Wireless Charge Pad It may not look like much, but it’s got it where it counts. Compatible with Samsung, Apple and any other device that has wireless charging capabilities, she’ll have your phone topped up in light-speed. This pad is also a detailed replica of the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, which will look s
  
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• An Arkansas man said he grew the 'mystery seeds' from China in his garden before agriculture officials warned against planting them

  05-08-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to local news, the seeds grew into a squash-like plant. Local agriculture officials plan to remove the plant for further evaluation.
  
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• Trump wants to deliver GOP nomination speech at White House. Is that legal?

  05-08-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When asked about Trump's plans, GOP Senator John Thune said, "I assume that's not something that you could do."
  
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• Trump campaign demands early September presidential debate

  05-08-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump‘s campaign has requested the first presidential debate ahead of November’s general election be rescheduled to early September if a fourth debate cannot be added to the schedule.A letter from the president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, to the Commission on Presidential Debates argued that voting in more than a dozen other states means several million voters will already have cast mailed-in ballots before the first scheduled debate on 29 September.
  
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• Pence tours pregnancy center, fires up GOP base in Florida

  05-08-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence visited Florida's Tampa Bay area on Wednesday, firing up the Republican party’s conservative base while touring a pregnancy center, speaking at a church and making an appearance before a packed ballroom.Pence’s visit highlighted his anti-abortion and conservative Christian stance, courting religious voters in part by seeking to frame Democrats as a threat to religious freedom.Florida GOP Congressman Gus Bilirakis spoke before the vice president came onstage,
  
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• Michelle Obama as Joe Biden's vice president? Fans just keep lobbying her

  05-08-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden will soon pick a running mate, and some Michelle Obama fans want her considered. But the former first lady has said she's not interested.
  
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• Court reverses order to shut down Dakota Access pipeline

  05-08-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a judge’s order that shut down the Dakota Access pipeline pending a full environmental review.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with pipeline owner Energy Transfer to keep the oil flowing, saying a lower-court judge “did not make the findings necessary for injunctive relief.”The appeals court said it expects the parties to “clarify their positions” in the lower court.
  
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• Uber and Lyft just got hit with another lawsuit in California over claims the companies are skirting the state's gig worker law

  05-08-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California's labor commissioner is the latest regulator to take the companies to court over their refusal to classify drivers as employees.
  
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• $50,000, wooden huts and edible plants: Inside one school's unorthodox reopening plan

  05-08-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While some educators remain skeptical, others see outdoor classrooms as a way to make in-person learning safer during the pandemic.
  
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• A 6-year-old girl in the UK choked on her McDonald's chicken nuggets because they contained bits of a face mask, her mom says

  05-08-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McDonald's said it was investigating the incident and had "taken action to ensure any product from this batch is removed from restaurants."
  
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• Trump campaign wants presidential debate in early September

  05-08-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the events, Trump's personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, asked either for a fourth debate to be scheduled for the first week of September or for the first debate to be moved from Sept. 29."For a nation already deprived of a traditional campaign schedule because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, it makes no sense to also deprive so many Americans of the opportunity to see and hear the two competing visions for
  
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• Pompeo says U.S., Russia have made progress on arms control

  05-08-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the United States had made progress with Russia on nuclear arms control recently and hopes China will decide to join the discussions."In the last handful of months, we've been working diligently to get the three nations that have the largest nuclear capabilities - the United States, Russia and China - to have strategic dialogue about how we move forward together to decrease the risk to the world," Pompeo told reporters.
  
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• Pentagon official reportedly has 'no idea' where Trump's Beirut claims came from

  05-08-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon is distancing itself from President Trump's claims about the Beirut blast that killed more than 100 people.Trump on Tuesday said his unnamed "great generals" told him they thought the massive explosion was a "terrible attack." In the early aftermath, there was speculation that the catastrophe was intentional, but it the consensus quickly became that it was almost certainly accidental -- albeit brought on by neglect and mismanagement -- and not linked to any foreign power, proxy forc
  
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• Denver fire: Five people including three children found dead in suspected arson attack

  05-08-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Denver authorities have opened an investigation into a fire that killed five people in a suburban house in the city.The Denver Fire Department were called to a Green Valley Ranch home at 2:40am on Wednesday morning, after a local police officer alerted them to the burning building.
  
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• Biden, Trump scramble to replan nomination speeches

  05-08-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US election plunged deeper into unprecedented territory Wednesday when challenger Joe Biden announced he would accept his nomination virtually and President Donald Trump suggested breaking tradition by holding his own ceremony at the White House.Citing coronavirus health risks, the Biden campaign said he would make his speech -- the high point of a candidate's race -- from his Delaware home where he has spent most of the last months.Trump, whose reelection bid is struggling with a badly woun
  
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• California prosecutors asked the NFL to remove its PSA about the police killing of Stephon Clark, arguing it 'misrepresents the facts'

  05-08-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stephon Clark, an unarmed 22-year-old Black man was shot eight times by two Sacramento police officers in March 2018.
  
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• Police charge alleged MS-13 members with trafficking teen

  05-08-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors have charged 11 alleged members and associates of the MS-13 street gang with sex trafficking and other charges after they say a 13-year-old runaway was repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat and forced into prostitution in northern Virginia.A 48-page FBI affidavit says the 13-year-old girl ran away from a group home in Fairfax in August 2018 with a 16-year-old friend who was connected to MS-13.A child trafficking task force found the 13-year-old girl nearly two months later at
  
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• Fauci expects tens of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses at start of 2021

  05-08-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Drugmakers will likely have tens of millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine in the early part of next year, with production ramping up so that it hits a billion doses by the end of 2021, Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. government official on infectious diseases, said in a Reuters interview on Wednesday.Fauci said he has not seen any pressure from the White House to announce a vaccine close to the Nov. 3 election in the hopes of boosting President Donald Trump's re-election chances.
  
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• Trump news: President insists Covid 'will go away' in front of sign boasting he is 'the healthcare president' as US coronavirus death toll rises

  05-08-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump will 'probably' accept the Republican nomination for its presidential candidate at the White House instead of in North Carolina. This solution was pitched even though federal and government employees can not participate in events relating to a political campaign, which could cause ethical problems within the White House.This comes as a historian, who has correctly predicted the presidential election results since 1984, has said presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden will win aga
  
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• Who left a 4-mile-wide 'Black Lives Matter' mural in Nevada's Black Rock Desert?

  05-08-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Black Lives Matter" has been painted on streets throughout the United States, but now it's been etched in the crust of Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
  
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• Milwaukee mayor: Biden won't accept nomination here

  05-08-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has confirmed that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will not travel to the Wisconsin city to accept his party's White House nomination because of concerns over the coronavirus. (Aug. 5)
  
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• If you're unemployed, Business Insider wants to hear from you

  05-08-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If you've dealt with a COVID-related layoff or furlough, or have a unique unemployment situation, talk to us.
  
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• The story behind the widely-shared photo of a bikini-clad doctor who helped a patient on the brink of death

  05-08-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Candice Myhre shared a photo of herself saving someone's life while wearing a bikini to highlight "disgraceful" sexism in medicine.
  
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• The deadly explosion that devastated Beirut appears to have been far more powerful than the 'Mother of All Bombs'

  05-08-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Weapons experts estimated that the explosion was many times stronger than the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the US arsenal.
  
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• 'Most believe that it was an accident': Pentagon chief contradicts Trump on Beirut explosion

  05-08-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Less than 24 hours after President Trump said some “great generals” told him they thought that yesterday’s massive explosion in Beirut was an “attack” involving “a bomb of some kind,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper seemed less than convinced by that explanation.
  
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• Trump falsely said NASA 'was closed and dead' before he was president and appeared to take credit for a private SpaceX launch

  05-08-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US president made false claims about NASA in a Wednesday tweet that reshared video of SpaceX's private launch of a Starship Mars-rocket prototype.
  
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• Pompeo: US to call UN vote on Iran arms embargo extension

  05-08-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration will press ahead with efforts to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran despite widespread opposition to such a move at the world body, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday.The decision sets the stage for a potential crisis at the U.N. Security Council amid rising tensions in the Middle East.Pompeo said the United States would call for a Security Council vote next week on a U.S.-drafted resolution to extend the embargo that is due to expire in October.
  
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• 'No such thing happened': Former acting AG Sally Yates says Obama, Biden did not urge Flynn inquiry

  05-08-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yates was dismissed for refusing to defend President Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban days after he was inaugurated.
  
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• No more medical exemptions: Alaska Airlines says anyone who can't or won't wear a mask won't be allowed to fly

  05-08-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alaska Airlines said Wednesday that it will no longer allow medical exemptions from its mask requirement, part of an effort to slow the coronavirus.
  
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• On the heels of Isaias, forecasters say 10 more hurricanes are likely this season

  05-08-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hurricanes Hanna and Isaias are just a preview of the main act to come, top forecasters said Wednesday, with 10 more hurricanes likely to follow.
  
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• Sarah Palin: ‘Women face so much more scrutiny’

  05-08-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee weighs in on Joe Biden’s VP search and how female candidates are viewed in presidential politics.
  
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• Joe Biden won't travel to Milwaukee for 2020 DNC because of coronavirus concerns

  05-08-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Citing concerns over coronavirus, organizers announced Wednesday that speakers for the convention will no longer travel to Milwaukee.
  
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• House arrest of Colombia's Uribe exposes post-peace tensions

  05-08-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In Colombia, former President Álvaro Uribe is both.The rift over Uribe, and the broader rift in Colombian society, born of generations of violence that diminished with a 2016 peace accord with rebels, flared after the ex-leader was placed under house arrest in an alleged witness tampering case.Adding to the drama, a spokesperson for Uribe's Democratic Center party said Wednesday that Uribe had tested positive for the new coronavirus.
  
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• CDC says some sickened after swallowing hand sanitizer

  05-08-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hand hygiene has been promoted as an important way to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the United States, and the CDC recommends using alcohol-based sanitizer products to clean hands if soap and water are not available. All alcohol-based hand sanitizers approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must contain only ethanol or isopropanol, but some products imported into the country have been found to contain methanol, the CDC said in a report.
  
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• Chicago rapper FBG Duck killed in brazen daytime shopping attack

  05-08-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The attack was committed in the Gold Coast luxury shopping district by four gunmen in two vehicles.
  
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• Satellite imagery shows scale of destruction after explosion at Beirut port

  05-08-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Satellite imagery from Planet Labs, Inc. and Maxar Technologies shows the damage sustained by yesterday’s explosions at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon.
  
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• Woman hurls racist slurs during rant at black landscapers in viral video

  05-08-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A video of a woman in Orlando swearing and shouting racist slurs at two black landscapers has gone viral online.In the video, a woman can be seen aggressively shouting at two black men, who have said they were part of a landscaping crew working at her neighbours house.
  
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• Reporter reflects on Beirut explosion, burying a dog who made 'dystopia more bearable'

  05-08-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Journalist Nadia al-Faour was at the vet when the Beirut explosion struck: "I will miss Loulou as I walk the streets of a broken city."
  
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• Pompeo says U.N. Security Council to vote next week on extending Iran arms embargo

  05-08-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council will vote next week on a U.S. bid to extend an international arms embargo on Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, despite thewarnings of some diplomats that the measure lacks support.The arms embargo on Iran is currently set to end on Oct. 18 under Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which U.S. President Donald Trump's administration quit in 2018.
  
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• New poll shows plummeting GOP satisfaction with direction of country

  05-08-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thanks to a marked shift among Republican voters since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, just 13 percent of Americans surveyed now say they are satisfied with “the way things are going in the United States.”
  
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• One American is dying every 80 seconds from coronavirus as Trump shrugs off death toll: ‘It is what it is’

  05-08-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least one person in the United States has died every 80 seconds on average over the last seven days, according to new research, as President Donald Trump said the nation’s soaring death toll “is what it is” in a recent interview.The grim figures were first reported by NBC News on Wednesday, which noted its own tally revealed 7,486 people died in the last seven days due to Covid-19.
  
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• One American is dying every 80 seconds from coronavirus as Trump shrugs off death toll: 'It is what it is'

  05-08-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least one person in the United States has died every 80 seconds on average over the last seven days, according to new research, as President Donald Trump said the nation's soaring death toll "is what it is" in a recent interview.The grim figures were first reported by NBC News on Wednesday, which noted its own tally revealed 7,486 people died in the last seven days due to Covid-19.
  
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• Foreign policy experts propose 6 ways U.S. should change its Russia strategy

  05-08-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 100 foreign policy experts — including former White House officials in Reagan, (both) Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Trump administrations — laid out six proposals for how the United States should alter its relationship with Russia in an open letter published by Politico on Tuesday.The letter calls for squelching Russian interference in U.S. elections, while also engaging with Moscow about the matter through negotiations "out of the public square." Another top priority, the sign
  
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• Sean Hannity: No one in the modern Democratic Party is a moderate

  05-08-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'Hannity' host Sean Hannity, author of 'Live Free or Die,' joins Dana Perino to discuss the stakes of the 2020 presidential election.
  
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• Esper says he’s gathering info on Beirut explosion, but most believe it was accident

  05-08-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a virtual interview at the Aspen Security Forum, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said he was “still getting information on what happened” about a massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday but that “most believe it was an accident as reported.”
  
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