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• Tennessee police officers broke down door of innocent family

  20-08-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three Tennessee police officers have had their powers suspended after they broke down the door of an innocent family early on Tuesday morning.
  
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• US-Europe row as Pompeo triggers start of Iran sanctions 'snapback'

  20-08-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States formally began the process Thursday of activating a controversial mechanism aimed at reimposing sanctions on Iran, a move that was immediately rejected by European allies fighting to save the Iranian nuclear deal.
  
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• 'Grannies for justice': 7 people, including 79-year-old nun, charged in Kentucky after Breonna Taylor sit-in

  20-08-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Those charged had a combined age of 514 years, organizers say. The sit-in took place on Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's front lawn.
  
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• Double trouble: Pair of tropical systems could near US as powerful storms early next week

  20-08-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A pair of tropical depressions were forecast to approach U.S. shores by early next week, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
  
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• Two gold nuggets worth $350,000 found in Australia

  20-08-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The discovery of the 2.5kg stones in Victoria state was shown on TV programme Aussie Gold Hunters.
  
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• Stephen Miller reportedly wanted to separate every migrant family that crossed the border

  20-08-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many of the Trump administration's most powerful officials voted in favor of separating migrant children from their parents in 2018, NBC News reports.Family separation at the border hit its peak in the summer of 2018 after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched the U.S.'s "zero tolerance policy" that prosecuted all immigrants crossing the border, including parents who were then separated from their children. Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller is known as the architect of that plan, but
  
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• 36 students at Purdue University suspended after party

  20-08-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Unfortunately, everything we have done – the months of planning to give our students the opportunity to continue their educational pursuits in person – can be undone in the blink of an eye," a university official said.
  
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• 36 Purdue University students suspended after off-campus party

  20-08-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspensions come as a number of other schools have had to roll back plans for in-person classes after outbreaks of COVID-19.
  
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• More evacuations as massive fires rapidly expand in California

  20-08-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A series of massive fires in northern and central California forced more evacuations as they quickly spread Thursday, sending plumes of smoke over the San Francisco area and dangerously affecting air quality.
  
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• A 'border wall' built on fraud?

  20-08-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Steve Bannon charged in a border wall fraud scheme. Trump's attempt to block a subpoena for his tax returns was rejected. It's Thursday's news.
  
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• Army Destroys Cruise and Ballistic Missile Targets in 2nd Test of New Defense System

  20-08-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was the final live-fire exercise in a limited user test of the Army's Integrated Battle Command System.
  
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• Republican senator Bill Cassidy tests positive for coronavirus

  20-08-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican senator Bill Cassidy has tested positive for Covid-19, after he was exposed to someone infected with the virus.On Thursday, Mr Cassidy’s office announced that he had become just the second senator to have contracted coronavirus, after Republican Rand Paul tested positive for Covid-19 in April, according to CNBC.
  
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• US Army’s future missile defense command system nearly simultaneously defeats cruise, ballistic missile threats

  20-08-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Find out how the Army's most recent IBCS live-fire test went, and see footage a Black Dagger target missile launch.
  
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• Mnuchin says he was not involved in postmaster general selection

  20-08-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he played no role in the selection of a supporter of President Donald Trump as the head of the U.S. Postal Service, even as a former official accused him of interfering in agency operations.Democrats have harshly criticized Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was tapped by the board of governors to take over in June.Mnuchin said he was "surprised" to learn that DeJoy was a finalist for a job.
  
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• Body cam footage shows Phoenix police restraining a man on asphalt in 100-degree heat who later died

  20-08-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Phoenix police launched an internal investigation and released footage showing the arrest of Ramon Lopez, 28, who died in hospital shortly afterward.
  
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• Trump takes Plan B re-election sales pitch for a test drive in Scranton

  20-08-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump, standing under a blistering Pennsylvania sun, officially shifted his re-election bid to Plan B on Thursday.Unable to implement Plan A, making the pre-coronavirus US economy the basis of his sales pitch for a second term, the president used a campaign rally near Scranton, Pennsylvania – designated Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's hometown – to unveil some new attack lines.
  
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• Inside the Wild Finale of DARPA’s Simulated Drone Dogfights

  20-08-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Tremel was in the cockpit of his Super Hornet fighter soaring 20,000 feet over war-torn Syria on June 18, 2017, when he detected a warplane heading toward a U.S.-backed militia force on the ground. Tremel tried to shoo away the other pilot by firing off bright decoy flares. But the Syrian aviator ignored the warning and dropped bombs on the militia position. Tremel reacted in seconds, firing two air-to-air missiles that sliced off the other plane’s tail.It
  
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• Democrats question whether Trump is breaking the law with RNC speech

  20-08-2020 22:58 via politico.com
  
  The House Oversight Committee continues to ask questions about Trump’s decision to deliver his acceptance speech from the White House next Thursday.
  
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• Can Joe Biden salvage the DNC?

  20-08-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the important exception of Barack Obama's brilliant speech, the Democrats blew it on Wednesday night. Viewers of the third night of the Democratic National Convention were treated to a video about gun control that could have been produced a year ago, long before the current sharp spike in violent crime across the country. Another spot on climate change looked and sounded like part an ad campaign thrown together for an energy company shortly after an oil spill. As for the speeches, all but O
  
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• Putin is counting on your vote in November. Are you in with ‘Vova?’ | Opinion

  20-08-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vladimir Putin is on the ballot this November.
  
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• Steve Bannon: The Trump-whisperer's rapid fall from grace

  20-08-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From "the best talent in politics" to "Sloppy Steve" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?
  
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• Real estate agent fired after removing Black Lives Matter signs from Colorado yards

  20-08-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “We’re not a company that can condone trespassing on people’s private property and theft,” the owner of the real estate agency said.
  
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• Trump: U.S. would retaliate if reports of bounties on U.S. troops were true

  20-08-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump on Thursday promised to retaliate if other countries were found to have offered bounties for attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but he gave no further information whether his stance toward U.S. intelligence reports outlining the bounties had changed.
  
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• COVID-19 pandemic puts airport terminal projects on pause, while others move forward

  20-08-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Raleigh, North Carolina, and Kansas City, Missouri, illustrate the uneven impact of the pandemic on airport terminal projects.
  
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• California judge halts injunction forcing Lyft and Uber to treat drivers as employees as they threaten to leave state

  20-08-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A California appeals court granted a stay on an injunction Thursday that would have forced Uber and Lyft to re-classify their contract workers as employees after the companies threatened to shut down their operations in the state.The companies recently lost a court battle against Assembly Bill 5, which would have forced the companies to treat their contract-drivers as employees, which would have forced the companies to provide them with benefits, sick leave, minimum wage and access to workers&rs
  
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• U.S. moves to reimpose full UN sanctions on Iran

  20-08-2020 22:28 via politico.com
  
  Pompeo said Washington would issue the sanctions to essentially extend an arms embargo on Tehran.
  
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• Former Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden is banned from Delta Air Lines after not wearing mask

  20-08-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former Navy Seal who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has sparked controversy online after he bragged about not wearing a face mask on a recent flight – a claim that has banned him from Delta Air Lines.Robert O’Neill, 44, a former US Navy SEAL Team Six member, tweeted an image of himself on a flight where he was seen smiling in his seat without a mask.
  
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• Former Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden ‘banned’ from Delta Air Lines after not wearing mask

  20-08-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former Navy Seal who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has sparked controversy online after he bragged about not wearing a face mask on a recent flight – a claim that has apparently seen him banned from Delta Air Lines.Robert O’Neill, 44, a former US Navy SEAL Team Six member, tweeted an image of himself on a flight where he was seen smiling in his seat without a mask.
  
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• The Effects of Hong Kong’s National-Security Law Are Already Clear

  20-08-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just a few weeks after China’s imposition of a new “national-security law” on Hong Kong, we can already see the law’s effects: It has emboldened the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to suppress dissent, punish activism, and create fear within the city’s democracy movement.In 1997, the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong, which it had governed for 99 years under a lease extorted from the Qing Dynasty, back to the People’s Republic of China. At the time, the PRC prom
  
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• Amazon is cracking down on sellers outside of the retailer's shipping network, and it could be a blow to the USPS

  20-08-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Amazon policy may suck up package volume from the USPS when the agency needs business more than ever.
  
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• Megan Boswell, mom of Tennessee's 2-year-old 'baby Evelyn' has been charged with her murder months after the toddler's remains were found

  20-08-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Evelyn Boswell went missing in December, but a family member didn't report it until February. Her remains were found on a family member's property.
  
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• Florida mosquitoes: 750 million genetically modified insects to be released

  20-08-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The aim is to reduce insect-borne diseases but environmental groups warn of unforeseen consequences.
  
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• Trump claims Biden 'abandoned Scranton' when family moved 50 years ago

  20-08-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mocking the designated Democratic presidential nominee in his hometown, Donald Trump told a rally crowd that Joe Biden "abandoned Scranton" then "sold out" America during a half century in Washington."Joe Biden is no friend of Pennsylvania," the president said on a sun-drenched stage in the key swing state, where he trails the former vice president in nearly every poll by a statistically significant margin.
  
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• ‘Predatory’ cop raped women he arrested – sometimes in Tennessee squad car, feds say

  20-08-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors accused 35-year-old Desmond Logan of choosing “victims whom he thought no one would believe.”
  
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• Israel launches airstrikes after 2 rockets fired from Gaza

  20-08-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed near the Israeli security fence late Thursday, and Israel carried out airstrikes on targets linked to the territory's Hamas rulers, the Israeli military said.The military said it struck a “concrete manufacturing site used for underground infrastructure and tunnel construction, belonging to the Hamas terror organization.”Tensions have risen in recent days as groups affiliated with Gaza's militant Hamas rulers have launched incendiary balloo
  
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• USPS head has no plans to replace sorting machines or reverse other Postal Service changes, Pelosi says

  20-08-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Postal Service deferred comment to DeJoy's Tuesday statement, where he said he would stop changes but did not address their reversal.
  
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• Thousands of chicks arrive dead to farmers amid USPS turmoil

  20-08-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 4,800 chicks were shipped to Maine farmers through the U.S. Postal Service and arrived dead in recent weeks after cuts hit the mail carrier's operations, Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree said.
  
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• Reopen schools and let parents decide how to educate their children in COVID-19 pandemic

  20-08-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Children can be harmed by lack of education, nutrition and mental health care. We cannot ignore the casualties of all other conditions to contain COVID.
  
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• Latinos pressure California governor on US Senate appointee

  20-08-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Latino group openly pressured Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday to select a Hispanic replacement if U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris' seat becomes vacant, saying it was time for a historic pick that would reflect the growing influence of Latinos in the nation's most populous state.The letter to Newsom from the Latino Community Foundation marks a new public phase to the emerging competition for the seat, which would open up if Joe Biden and Harris, his pick for vice president, win in November.Should a vacancy
  
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• Dem convention shows Biden wants to reassemble Obama's coalition — not build a new one

  20-08-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When former President Barack Obama spoke Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, it was striking, and telling, to hear which voters he was trying to reach: his voters — the voters he thinks can carry his former running mate, Joe Biden, to victory. 
  
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• Montana governor presses to remove Trump's public lands boss

  20-08-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Montana’s Democratic governor asked a federal judge Thursday to take swift action to remove the Trump administration’s chief steward of public lands, as the former industry attorney hangs onto the post despite the White House saying Saturday that his nomination would be withdrawn.Gov. Steve Bullock said William Perry Pendley's continuing leadership of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management undermines conservation efforts and is illegal because Pendley never had a Senate confirmation hear
  
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• Former Uber security chief charged for allegedly covering up hack - CNET

  20-08-2020 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hackers accessed data from millions of Uber users in 2016, but it wasn't revealed to the public until 2017.
  
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• The ‘We Build the Wall’ Huckster Is Accused of Duping Donors. Turns Out, He Planned to Sell Their Data Too.

  20-08-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors on Thursday arrested former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage, the head of a nonprofit seeking to privately finance construction of a southern border wall, and accused them of illegally using that nonprofit to enrich themselves. But the sums the two men allegedly extracted from the organization just scratched the surface of their grandiose plans to make money off the effort. As he was using his group, We Build The Wall, to compile millions of email addresses a
  
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• The 'We Build The Wall' Huckster Is Accused of Duping Donors. Turns Out He Planned To Sell Their Data Too.

  20-08-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors on Thursday arrested former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage, the head of a nonprofit seeking to privately finance construction of a southern border wall, and accused them of illegally using that nonprofit to enrich themselves. But the sums the two men allegedly extracted from the organization just scratched the surface of their grandiose plans to make money off the effort. As he was using his group, We Build The Wall, to compile millions of email addresses a
  
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• Lyft poised to suspend ride-hailing in California - CNET

  20-08-2020 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The move comes after a judge ruled that ride-hailing companies must classify their drivers as employees.
  
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• How to watch Capitals vs. Islanders, Flames vs. Stars, 2020 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs - CNET

  20-08-2020 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first round of the playoffs is nearing an end in the bubbles in Canada.
  
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• Enter for your chance to win Samsung's all-new Galaxy Note 20* - CNET

  20-08-2020 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One lucky winner will win that fancy phone and Galaxy Buds Live. Two more will win Buds. *Open to the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada (excluding Quebec).
  
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• AMC is reopening theaters today with 15-cent tickets - CNET

  20-08-2020 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Throwback movies like Inception, The Empire Strikes Back and Black Panther are being shown.
  
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• U.S. triggers effort to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran

  20-08-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States moved to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran on Thursday, arguing Tehran was in violation of a nuclear deal it struck with world powers in 2015 even though Washington itself abandoned that agreement two years ago.The United States submitted a letter to the 15-member U.N. Security Council alleging Iranian non-compliance, in theory starting a 30-day process that could lead to the "snapback" of U.N. sanctions even though major powers like Russia reject the U.S. stance and say they
  
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• Sen. Cassidy tests positive for virus, has COVID-19 symptoms

  20-08-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing some COVID-19 symptoms.The Republican senator, 62, who is running for reelection on Nov. 3, is experiencing “mild symptoms that began this morning,” from COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, his spokesperson Cole Avery said.Cassidy, a physician from Baton Rouge who regularly wears a mask when in public, said in a statement that he was tested after being notified Wednesd
  
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