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• Man held on $1 million bond in shooting that allegedly sparked looting in Chicago

  11-08-2020 23:55 via chicagotribune.com
  
  CHICAGO - The man whose shooting by police in Englewood on Sunday allegedly sparked looting in downtown Chicago was ordered held on a $1 million bond Tuesday. Latrell Allen allegedly shot at police officers, who returned fire, wounding him, touching off a series of events that ended in chaos in some of the city's top shopping districts, authorities have said. He was being pursued because he ...
  
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• 'The Five' react to Joe Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as running mate

  11-08-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California Sen. Kamala Harris announced as Joe Biden's pick for vice president.
  
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• Do neck gaiters spread coronavirus more easily? Not exactly - CNET

  11-08-2020 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new study tested one neck gaiter and found that it didn't slow the spread of respiratory droplets. But researchers say that doesn't tell the full story.
  
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• Michael Flynn's efforts to force federal judge to dismiss case faces a skeptical appeals court

  11-08-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At issue is whether a federal district judge abused his discretion when he appointed a third party to challenge DOJ's bid to drop its prosecution of Flynn.
  
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• Chicago man charged with attempted murder in shooting that police say sparked looting

  11-08-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chicago man who allegedly shot at officers in an incident that police said prompted looting was charged with attempted murder late Monday night.
  
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• In wake of Englewood shooting, Chicago mayor says all police officers dealing with public need body cameras

  11-08-2020 23:19 via chicagotribune.com
  
  CHICAGO - Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city shouldn't be sending police officers out on the street without body-worn cameras but defended the department's account of a shooting in the Englewood neighborhood that allegedly touched off looting and civil unrest over the weekend. On a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon, Lightfoot acknowledged the Chicago police officer who shot ...
  
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• US contractor told Lebanese port official of chemicals risk

  11-08-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  About four years before the Beirut port explosion that killed dozens of people and injured thousands, a U.S. government contractor expressed concern to a Lebanese port official about unsafe storage there of the volatile chemicals that fueled last week's devastating blast, American officials said Tuesday.There is no indication the contractor communicated his concerns to anyone in the U.S. government.The cable, labeled sensitive but unclassified, dealt largely with the Lebanese responses to the bl
  
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• Kamala Harris news: Trump complains VP pick was 'mean' to Brett Kavanaugh as president's donations to her campaign resurface

  11-08-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden has selected California senator and former state attorney general Kamala Harris as his running mate, the first black woman to run as vice president on a major political party’s ticket.The Trump campaign swiftly reacted to the announcement, lashing out at the senator by calling her “phoney” and claiming she will “abandon her own morals”. Donald Trump echoed his campaign rhetoric from the White House, where he falsely portrayed her as a far-left senator desp
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell complains about 'onerous' jail conditions

  11-08-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell claims in a court filing she has been unfairly singled out due to concern over Jeffrey Epstein's suicide behind bars.
  
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• Former VP hopefuls react to Biden picking Kamala Harris as his running mate

  11-08-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “This is a historic moment.”
  
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• Suspicious husband sets up hidden camera to prove wife was poisoning him, NC cops say

  11-08-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  She was spiking his and his son’s drinks with cleaning chemicals and paint primer, police say
  
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• A new depression in the Atlantic could become Tropical Storm Josephine this week

  11-08-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A tropical depression traveling west through the Atlantic could strengthen into Tropical Storm Josephine by Wednesday night, according to the National Hurricane Center.
  
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• With Kamala Harris as Biden's VP pick, Newsom has a chance to appoint history-making senator

  11-08-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The appointment promises to be one of the most consequential of his political career, both in California and in regard to any ambitions he may have for White House.
  
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• There's been a huge spike in Democratic voter registration in the epicenter of Black Lives Matter protests

  11-08-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Voter registration surged among Democratic voters following national unrest over police brutality, according to a new analysis.
  
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• Mother says son with autism was 'kicked out' of church by priest

  11-08-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Julia Vicidomini said her son, Nicholas, was instructed to leave the church after he dropped a toy.
  
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• Tropical Depression 11 is here, and it could go on to shatter another Atlantic record

  11-08-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A disturbance spinning over the middle of the Atlantic organized enough to be named Tropical Depression 11 at 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. AccuWeather meteorologists expect it to go on to strengthen into a tropical storm, becoming another one for the record books.Tropical Depression 11, which began as a batch of heavy storms that forecasters have been monitoring for days, was moving to the west-northwest at 16 mph and was located 1,450 miles to the east of the
  
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• Chrysler Town & Country charging hub fire prompts government investigation - Roadshow

  11-08-2020 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NHTSA will evaluate the cause of multiple interior fires in the minivans, which could result in a recall.
  
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• New TCL 6-Series Roku TVs promise even better picture, start at $650 for 55-inch - CNET

  11-08-2020 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Our favorite midpriced TV gets upgraded with mini-LEDs, 120Hz and THX gaming.
  
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• Kamala Harris in a snapshot

  11-08-2020 22:40 via politico.com
  
  The California senator has an extensive background as a prosecutor and delivered a stinging attack on Biden during the primary.
  
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• Thomas Gilmer: GOP candidate drops out of primary after being arrested for assault hours ahead of vote

  11-08-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hours before polls opened for the state's primary election, police in Connecticut arrested a Republican congressional candidate on charges stemming from an alleged domestic assault in July.Thomas Gilmer, a primary candidate for the US House of Representatives, was charged with second-degree strangulation and first-degree unlawful restraint, according to the Wethersfield Police Department, which made the arrest with the assistance of the Madison Police Department on Monday night.
  
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• Ivory Coast ex-first lady seeks amnesty for husband before polls

  11-08-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo on Tuesday asked President Alassane Ouattara, her exiled husband's arch-foe, to grant the ex-strongman amnesty ahead of presidential elections in October.The former first lady and her husband Laurent Gbagbo were both charged over violence that killed some 3,000 people in 2010-2011 after Gbagbo refused to cede power to Ouattara following his electoral defeat.While she was jailed by Ivorian judges and later amnestied, her husband was transferred to the
  
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• How Kamala Harris found the political identity that had eluded her

  11-08-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Months after her presidential campaign collapsed amid questions over her political identity, Kamala Harris suddenly and forcefully found her voice – and at a fortuitous time.Harris, a 55-year-old U.S. senator from California, was chosen by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as his running mate on Tuesday, making history as the first Black woman and Asian-American on a major presidential ticket.With the United States in the midst of a reckoning over its history of racial injustice,
  
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• Biden VP pick: Kamala Harris chosen as running mate

  11-08-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The California senator is the first black woman to be chosen as a running mate.
  
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• Editorial: Kamala Harris VP pick shows Biden isn't afraid to have a strong woman at his side

  11-08-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California Sen. Kamala Harris addition to the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket is more than just symbolism. She's unafraid to take on bullies.
  
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• Kamala Harris Is the Third Woman to Run as a Vice Presidential Candidate for a Major U.S. Party. Here's What to Know About the First

  11-08-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "If a woman can be Vice President of the U.S.," Ferraro said, "what job is there that a woman cannot do?"
  
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• Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's VP pick. Here's what she means for tech - CNET

  11-08-2020 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Democratic challenger makes good on his promise to choose a woman as his VP running mate. Here's how that could affect the technology industry.
  
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• Senator Martha McSally attacks Mark Kelly over 'blatantly sexist' marketing campaign

  11-08-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mark Kelly, a prominent Democratic senatorial candidate in Arizona, has spoken out against an advertising campaign he was a part of for a Swiss watchmaker after it was subsequently decried as a "sexist" marketing ploy.The former NASA astronaut, who won his Democratic primary bid to take on Republican incumbent Martha McSally in the November election, distanced himself from his former role as a brand ambassador for Breitling in a statement through his campaign on Tuesday.
  
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• Jayla, 11, who walked out of her Miami home Monday and disappeared, has been found

  11-08-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jayla Jones, the 11-year-old- who walked out of her family’s Little Haiti apartment at 8:26 Monday morning and disappeared, has been found unharmed, police said Tuesday evening.
  
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• Sen. Kamala Harris Tapped as Joe Biden’s VP

  11-08-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WILMINGTON, Delaware—Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Tuesday to be his running mate, a historically unprecedented choice that promotes a Black woman and former rival to the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket.Biden announced he chose Harris, a 55-year-old freshman senator from California and that state’s former Attorney General, in a text message to supporters shortly after 4 p.m. on Tuesday. “Joe Biden here. Big news: I'v
  
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• Under-fire Angolan billionaire Dos Santos quits Unitel

  11-08-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, who is facing a massive corruption investigation, stepped down from the board of the country's largest mobile phone operator Unitel on Tuesday, citing a "climate of permanent conflict" among administrators.Described by Forbes magazine as the wealthiest woman in Africa, she is accused of diverting billions of dollars from state companies during her father Jose Eduardo dos Santos's nearly 40-year rule of the oil-rich southern African nation."After 20 years de
  
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• Sony ZV-1: This little video camera is almost perfect - CNET

  11-08-2020 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Looking for the best camera for making YouTube videos, without breaking the bank? This could be it.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell says she is being mistreated in jail and that she should be taken out of solitary confinement

  11-08-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, want her released into her jail's general population.
  
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• Video of Portland 'Bible burning' seized on by Trump allies alleged to be Russian disinformation scam

  11-08-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A viral video of protesters burning a Bible in Portland may have been amplified as part of a Russian disinformation campaign.In the video, a pair of protesters appear to throw a Bible onto a fire. Though other protesters in the area do not seem to react to the event, the video, captured and shared by Russia Today owned video outlet Ruptly, became a sensation among right-wing media pundits and politicians as evidence that the protesters are godless book-burners.
  
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• Pro-democracy media tycoon freed on bail amid Hong Kong crackdown

  11-08-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai walked free on bail Wednesday, over 40 hours after he and other critics of China were rounded up by police as part of a widening crackdown on dissent.When Lai left a police station he was swarmed by a crowd of journalists and cheering supporters, some of whom waved copies of his Apple Daily in a show of their backing.A clampdown has gathered pace in Hong Kong since China imposed a sweeping security law in June, with opposition politicians disqualifie
  
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• Mother of arrested Key West boy sues city, police officers, teacher and school district

  11-08-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lawyers for the mother of a now 10-year-old boy who Key West police officers tried to handcuff in 2018 at his elementary school after he was accused of punching a teacher filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday in federal court against the school district, the city, the individual officers involved as well as the teacher and two school officials.
  
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• Class up your AirPods Pro with a leather case for just $8 - CNET

  11-08-2020 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Available in four colors, these snazzy cases also include a clip for easier transport.
  
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• Man caught on camera erasing little girl's Black Lives Matter chalk drawings

  11-08-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man in California has been caught erasing black lives matter messages drawn on the pavement by a three-year-old girl.Manette Sharick and her three-year-old daughter, Zhuri, had been drawing messages in chalk across the pavement outside her house including "Black Lives Matter".
  
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• Lack of body cameras fuels suspicion in Chicago shooting

  11-08-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A police force with a history of brutality and racism created a new crime-fighting team, but on one of its first forays into the streets, the group did not wear body cameras, which would have shown whether a man accused of firing a gun at officers was, in fact, armed.Latrell Allen, 20, appeared in court Tuesday on charges of attempted murder and was ordered held on a $1 million bond.Investigators have reviewed video from a surveillance camera that captures the pursuit of a man matching Allen&rsq
  
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• Elite public schools in Virginia, elsewhere seek diversity

  11-08-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology regularly finds itself at the very top of national rankings, an elite public school in the suburbs of the nation's capital for which families start preparing their children as early as kindergarten.For decades, though, Black and Hispanic students have made up just a tiny fraction of the school’s student body.The lack of diversity in gifted education is a nationwide problem, one that officials in many states are now seeking
  
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• 'Latinx' Is Gaining Popularity. But New Research Says Only 3% of U.S. Hispanics Use the Gender-Neutral Term

  11-08-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Only 3% of people in the U.S. describe themselves as Latinx, a gender-neutral and inclusive alternative to Latino or Hispanic.
  
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• The Perseid meteor shower, which NASA says is the best of the year, peaks Tuesday night. Here's how to catch it.

  11-08-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Perseids meteor shower, considered the year's best, peaks Tuesday night. Here's how to watch the show.
  
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• How SpaceX outmaneuvered Blue Origin and other rivals to clinch a prized Space Force launch agreement worth billions

  11-08-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, not only managed to get the rules of the competition changed, but also beat out Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman.
  
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• Mitch McConnell on stalemate over COVID relief, President Trump's executive actions, push to hold the Senate

  11-08-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell joins Bill Hemmer with insight on 'Bill Hemmer Reports.'
  
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• The Nintendo Switch is in stock at Best Buy, but probably not for long (Update: Sold out) - CNET

  11-08-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you hurry, your long wait may be over.
  
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• Russia Approves Sputnik-V, the World's First Coronavirus Vaccine

  11-08-2020 21:27 via popularmechanics.com
  
  But without completing the final phase of testing, the Russians are rushin' it.
  
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• 2 Georgia police officers are being investigated after shooting at 5 Black children during a traffic stop

  11-08-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five siblings were on the way to a football game but turned toward home when they noticed police were following them, one of them told local news.
  
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• Turkish drone kills 2 Iraqi officers in Kurdish region: army

  11-08-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two high-ranking Iraqi officers were killed Tuesday in what the army said was a "blatant Turkish drone attack" in the autonomous Kurdish region, where Ankara has for weeks been raiding militant positions.The strike killed two border guard battalion commanders and the driver of their vehicle, the army said in a statement.It is the first time members of the regular Iraqi forces have been killed since Turkey launched a cross-border ground and air operation in mid-June against Kurdistan Workers
  
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• Trump campaign tweets mugshots of alleged criminals, all of them Black, to claim Biden is pro-crime

  11-08-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump campaign Twitter account @TrumpWarRoom has tweeted and retweeted some questionable things in the past. Lately, it's been all systems go against former Vice President Joe Biden, who is set to oppose President Trump in November's election.The latest effort to bring down Biden is a series of tweets that seem to claim Biden is pro-crime. In a blog post, the campaign points to Biden staffer's donations to bail funds amid the nationwide protests against police brutality. The campaign highlighted
  
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• Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has selected running mate

  11-08-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Finalists for the job have been informed of Biden's decision, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.A Biden campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The New York Times reported that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was not the pick, while CNN reported that U.S. Representative Karen Bass of California has told people she was not chosen.
  
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• Phoenix breaks record for days of scorching heat. ‘Who knows when it’s going to end?’

  11-08-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A meteorologist calls it “a record nobody really wants.”
  
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