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• Failure wasn't an option on coronavirus aid. It was the only option.

  08-08-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Analysis: There was no political incentive — other than public need — for the White House and Congress to reach a deal. So they didn't.
  
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• Kerala plane crash: 'Black boxes' from Air India jet found

  08-08-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The Air India plane skidded off the runway and broke apart during bad weather in Kerala state.
  
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• $800 a week to test employees for COVID-19. Could rapid, cheap tests help?

  08-08-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Experts say antigen tests could be used by businesses and universities where there is a demand for frequent, rapid testing.
  
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• Trump signs executive order on coronavirus relief without $1,200 checks after rambling attack on Democrats

  08-08-2020 23:21 via nydailynews.com
  With talks for a new coronavirus stimulus package stalled, President Donald Trump signed a package of coronavirus stimulus measures that he will seek to implement unilaterally by executive action. "This pretty much takes care of the whole situation," Trump said before exiting the contentious event. "We're coming back very strong," he added. "We're doing great with the virus." Trump moved to ...
  
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• Trump extends student loan relief through year's end

  08-08-2020 23:18 via politico.com
  
  Trump’s order is aimed at circumventing Congress to extend the emergency student loan relief granted in March under the CARES Act.
  
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• Eastman Kodak's $765 million U.S. loan agreement on hold after recent allegations

  08-08-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Earlier this week, senior Democratic lawmakers asked federal regulators to investigate securities transactions made by the company and its executives around the time it learned it could receive the government loan."Recent allegations of wrongdoing raise serious concerns," DFC said late on Friday in a tweet.
  
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• Lebanese protesters storm ministry buildings as anger over Beirut blast grows

  08-08-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lebanese protesters stormed government ministries in Beirut and trashed the offices of the Association of Lebanese Banks on Saturday as shots rang out in increasingly angry demonstrations over this week's devastating explosion.The protesters said their politicians should resign and be punished for negligence they say led to Tuesday’s blast, the biggest ever to hit Beirut, that killed 158 people and injured more than 6,000, compounding months of political and economic meltdown.A police
  
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• Teachers unions, progressive groups want demands met on housing, standardized testing before schools reopen

  08-08-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, weighs in on 'Journal Editorial Report.'
  
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• New 'threat' against former Saudi spy in Canada: media

  08-08-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former senior Saudi intelligence official who has accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of trying to have him assassinated in 2018 has been placed under heightened security after a new threat on his life, a Canadian newspaper reported.The Globe and Mail said Canadian security services had been informed of a new attempted attack on Saad Aljabri, who lives at an undisclosed location in the Toronto region.Aljabri served as a counterespionage chief under a rival prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, who
  
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• Graduating medical student confronts health disparities during COVID-19 pandemic

  08-08-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Houston native is a first generation college student who is also one of the 186 minority medical students at Baylor College of Medicine.
  
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• A man in his 20s died of the plague in New Mexico's first reported death from the infection in years

  08-08-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New Mexico Department of Health said it was the first plague-related death in New Mexico since 2015.
  
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• Venezuela: Former American soldiers jailed over failed coup

  08-08-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Luke Denman and Airan Berry were arrested in May while entering Venezuela by sea from Colombia.
  
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• Schools must allow trans students to use bathrooms that match gender

  08-08-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "A public school may not punish its students for gender conformity," the judges said.
  
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• Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine again tests negative for coronavirus

  08-08-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The fourth COVID-19 test result for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine came back negative Saturday after he received conflicting positive and negative results two days before, ahead of a scheduled meeting with President Trump.The governor and first lady, Fran DeWine, were tested at Ohio State University “out of an abundance of caution” following a rollercoaster day Thursday that began with DeWine receiving a positive test result followed by two negatives.
  
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• She Was Charged With Murder After Her Baby Was Stillborn. Now California’s AG Has Stepped In.

  08-08-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For more than nine months, five of them during a global pandemic, a 26-year-old woman named Chelsea Becker has been sitting in Kings County Jail, under a $2 million bail, for giving birth to a stillborn baby.Becker has been there since November, when police arrested her and prosecutors charged her with murder. The District Attorney argued that Becker’s methamphetamine addiction had caused the stillbirth, citing a 50-year-old law that civil rights advocates say was never supposed to apply t
  
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• Ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger appeals murder charge in death of neighbor Botham Jean

  08-08-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorneys for a white ex-Dallas police officer filed an appeal to overturn her murder conviction in the shooting of her Black unarmed neighbor.
  
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• Trump would reportedly 'show off' the capabilities of different weapons systems he was briefed on to impress billionaires

  08-08-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Intelligence officials have had a difficult time briefing President Trump on matters throughout his presidency, The New York Times reports. He reportedly often loses interest, unless the subject is heavy on economics or could intrigue other wealthy people, which tended to concern the intelligence community.In the latter scenario, one former senior administration official told The New York Times, Trump would "show off about some of the stuff he thought was cool," like the capabilities of differen
  
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• The onion salmonella outbreak grows. More recalls from Walmart, Kroger, Publix, H-E-B

  08-08-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Salmonella Newport outbreak linked to onions has expanded into one of the largest in recent years, with 640 people sickened in 43 states, as of the most recent CDC update.
  
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• Nasa to change 'harmful' and insensitive' planet and galaxy nicknames

  08-08-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Space agency says ‘certain cosmic nicknames are insensitive’ and vows to drop any reference to themNasa has signaled it is joining the social justice movement by changing unofficial and potentially contentious names used by the scientific community for distant cosmic objects and systems such as planets, galaxies and nebulae.In a statement last week, the space agency said that as the “community works to identify and address systemic discrimination and inequality in all aspects o
  
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• TikTok is reportedly planning to sue the Trump administration over its ban as early as Tuesday

  08-08-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NPR reported that a source says TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration, arguing that the order "failed to give the company a chance to respond."
  
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• Protesters decry government's anti-LGBT attitudes in Poland

  08-08-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Demonstrators turned out in Warsaw and other Polish cities Saturday to protest anti-LGBT attitudes promoted by the government as well as the detention of pro-LGBT protesters.“You will not lock all of us up!” people chanted at a protest in Warsaw that drew thousands of mostly young people.The protests came a day after LGBT rights supporters in Warsaw scuffled with police who arrested a transgender activist, Malgorzata Szutowicz, known best as “Margot.”
  
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• Thousands throng central Jerusalem in anti-Netanyahu protest

  08-08-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of demonstrators thronged the streets near the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in central Jerusalem on Saturday night, in a renewed show of strength as weeks of protests against the Israeli leader showed no signs of slowing.Throughout the summer, thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to call on Netanyahu to resign, protesting his handling of the country’s coronavirus crisis and saying he should not remain in office while on trial for corruption c
  
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• Thousands Protest in Beirut, Blaming Corruption and Negligence for Devastating Explosion

  08-08-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police fired tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in Lebanon’s capital on Saturday at the start of a planned protest over this week’s massive explosion that devastated large parts of Beirut and killed more than 150 people.
  
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• New 55,000-pound Gundam robot in Japan can move its limbs like a boss - CNET

  08-08-2020 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A full-scale moveable version of the giant anime robot watches over the Gundam Factory in Yokohama, Japan.
  
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• Bill Gates called Microsoft's potential TikTok deal a 'poison chalice' and said 'who knows what's going to happen'

  08-08-2020 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Being big in the social media business is no simple game," Bill Gates said of Microsoft's potential acquisition of TikTok.
  
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• Explosives expert: It's only a matter of time before human error leads to another Beirut blast

  08-08-2020 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the world’s leading experts on ammonium nitrate told The Daily Telegraph: “It’s only a matter of time before something similar happens again.” Vyto Babrauskas, a fires and explosives forensics expert based in New York, said that there were tens of thousands sites around the world where the chemical was stored unsafely. He carried out an investigation into a disaster seven years ago in West, Texas where 15 died. About 2,750 tonnes ignited to devastate Beirut on Tues
  
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• Police Officer Fired After Allegedly Mishandling Explicit Photos of Slain University of Utah Student

  08-08-2020 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune had reported that the officer had downloaded, shared and bragged about the photos
  
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• Nasa drops 'colonial' nicknames for cosmic objects like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 'Siamese Twins Galaxies'

  08-08-2020 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nasa is to drop "colonial" and "insensitive" nicknames for cosmic objects, including the "Eskimo Nebula" and the "Siamese Twins Galaxies". The space agency said it had taken the decision to address "systemic discrimination and inequality" in science. From now on it will use the official International Astronomical Union designations for planets, stars, galaxies and other stellar bodies "in cases where nicknames are inappropriate." The Eskimo Nebula will be known as NGC 2392. And the Siamese Twins
  
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• Schools will be last to close if second wave strikes, Johnson vows

  08-08-2020 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Schools will be the last to shut in the event of a second wave of Covid-19, Boris Johnson has told officials as it emerged there is “little evidence” of virus transmission in them. Ensuring that all children return to school next month is now the "country's top priority", the prime minister said, because of the greater risk to them from the shutdown than coronavirus. He stressed the urgency of getting all children in England back into class next month and after telling officials that
  
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• Schools will be last to close if second wave strikes, Boris Johnson vows

  08-08-2020 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Schools will be the last to shut in the event of a second wave of Covid-19, Boris Johnson has told officials as it emerged there is “little evidence” of virus transmission in them. Ensuring that all children return to school next month is now the "country's top priority", the prime minister said, because of the greater risk to them from the shutdown than coronavirus. He stressed the urgency of getting all children in England back into class next month and after telling officials that
  
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• 12,000 crew members still on cruise ships in US waters months after COVID-19 pandemic shut cruising down

  08-08-2020 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly five months after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the cruise industry, more than 12,000 crew members remained on ships in U.S. waters alone.
  
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• Police declare an unlawful assembly in Portland Friday night

  08-08-2020 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  About 200 people gathered at Laurelhurst Park and started marching to the Penumbra Kelly Building at East Burnside Street and NE 47th Avenue, a building shared by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office and the Portland Police Bureau, according to CBS.Officers declared an unlawful assembly almost immediately after the crowd arrived at the Penumbra Kelly Building. They said protesters broke apart a retaining wall at a nearby property and threw chunks of concrete and rocks at officers. Some in
  
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• Arizona, Florida show signs of coronavirus relief

  08-08-2020 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida and Arizona have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic this summer, but the two Sun Belt states appear to be entering a stage of relief.Arizona saw its test positivity rate fall below the crucial 10 percent threshold for the first time in months, signaling that a return to more intense lockdown measures has begun to pay off.> VAST improvement from Arizona today w/ sub 10% positive rate for first time in months. > > Mask ordinances - June 18/19> Peak new daily infections -
  
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• Hillary Clinton says NYT writer had 'too much pot brownie' after forgetting her 2016 White House run

  08-08-2020 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton roasted The New York Times and their columnist Maureen Dowd - for apparently forgetting that she ran on a mixed-gender presidential ticket in 2016.She joined a chorus of Twitter mockery after the paper’s Opinion Twitter account posted a now-deleted message promoting Ms Dowd’s latest column, which looked back at the Walter Mondale–Geraldine Ferraro ticket of 1984.
  
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• Head of US Christian college steps aside in flap over photo

  08-08-2020 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jerry Falwell Jr. has taken an indefinite leave of absence as president of a prominent US evangelical university amid a furor over an Instagram picture of him and a young woman, both with pants partly unzipped.The 58-year-old Falwell, whose father was one of the country's best-known televangelists and who founded Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, is stepping aside at the request of the school's trustees.A terse statement Friday from the Christian university said the trustees' executive
  
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• Bill Gates: Coronavirus pandemic will end 'for the rich world' by late 2021 - CNET

  08-08-2020 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Microsoft co-founder estimates the disease will affect the developing world even longer.
  
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• The former Dallas police officer who killed Botham Jean in his own apartment is appealing her murder conviction

  08-08-2020 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lawyers for Amber Guyger, who is serving 10 years for Jean's murder, argue in the appeal she had the "right to act in deadly force in self-defense."
  
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• At his New Jersey golf club, Trump finds supportive audience

  08-08-2020 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They hustled down the stairs, the rain dabbing their polo shirts and golf attire, as they dashed inside the clubhouse, drinks in their hands and masks missing from their faces.It was an unexpected perk of their country club membership: being the audience for President Donald Trump’s hurriedly announced news conference Friday evening at his course in Bedminster, New Jersey.As if it were a political rally, the well-heeled crowd offered cheers and jeers as the president delivered broadsides a
  
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• Biden tells Fox News he has chosen running mate

  08-08-2020 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy reports on the latest.
  
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• Thousands of bikers heading to South Dakota rally to be blocked at tribal land checkpoints

  08-08-2020 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Clampdown comes as fears mount that mask-free bikers headed to large gathering could spread coronavirus to tribal groupsThousands of bikers heading to South Dakota’s 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will not be allowed through Cheyenne River Sioux checkpoints, a spokesman for the Native American group said on Saturday.The decision to prevent access across tribal lands to the annual rally, which could attract as many as 250,000 bikers amid fears it could lead to a massive, regional coronavir
  
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• Nurse loses leg after she ignored pain to care for COVID patients

  08-08-2020 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "You forget about your own pains because you're busy helping other people," she said.
  
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• Get this HD portable monitor with two USB-C ports for $150 - CNET

  08-08-2020 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Regularly $200, this display can add more screen estate to your home office.
  
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• Conspiracy-mongering Republican seeking John Lewis seat gets social media boost from Trump

  08-08-2020 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Besides parroting many of President Trump’s talking points, Angela Stanton-King, a Republican congressional candidate, has frequently repeated ideas related to the conspiracy theory QAnon.
  
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• 80 million masks, 8,800 ventilators: How New York is spending $5B to fight COVID-19

  08-08-2020 17:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York spent $278 million on 8,800 ventilators during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — and the state never ran out, despite early fears.
  
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• Bentley's new Bentayga Speed hides in plain sight - Roadshow

  08-08-2020 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The hotter Bentayga will debut later this month.
  
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• Susan Rice: Let Republicans use Benghazi as a 'political distraction'

  08-08-2020 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The emergence of Susan Rice, a former national security adviser in the Obama administration, as a leading candidate to become former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate has led to a renewed focus on the 2012 attacks against U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the deaths of 11 people, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stephens. Rice, though, called the criticism of her role in the aftermath of the event a "political distraction" amid the coronaviru
  
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• Steve Cortes reacts to Biden’s immigration agenda

  08-08-2020 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump 2020 Campaign Senior Adviser Steve Cortes joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
  
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• HK vows it won't be intimidated by U.S. sanctions

  08-08-2020 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Beijing's top representatives in Hong Kong said on Saturday (August 8) that sanctions imposed by Washington on senior Hong Kong and Chinese officials were "clowning actions". Separately, the Hong Kong government said the sanctions were quote "shameless and despicable." "We will not be intimidated," a government spokesman said. The United States on Friday (August 7) imposed sanctions on Luo Huining, the head of China’s Liaison Office, as well as Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and other current
  
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• Michigan Gov. Whitmer met with Biden as running mate announcement nears

  08-08-2020 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been said to still be among those under serious consideration for Biden's running mate.
  
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• Trump signs executive orders related to unemployment relief

  08-08-2020 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Unemployment benefits at $400 a week were included, lower than the previous rate of $600 a week.
  
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