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• New chief of embattled Colorado force wants cops to see bias

  05-08-2020 23:55
  
  The new leader of the suburban Denver police department whose officers put Elijah McClain in a chokehold before the young Black man died last year and handcuffed Black girls over the weekend said Wednesday that she is committed to rebuilding the public's trust by empowering police to veer away from strict training protocols and think about whether they are acting on their biases.Vanessa Wilson was named the new chief of the Aurora Police Department this week after serving as its interim leader.A
  
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• The unrest in Lebanon explained

  05-08-2020 23:48
  
  With Covid-19 infections on the rise, hospitals were already struggling to cope.Now, they are faced with treating thousands of injured people from Tuesday's explosion which shook Beirut.The country is also going through the worst economic crisis since the civil war, and tensions were already high with street demonstrations against the government.The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley explains why Lebanon has had decades of unrest.Video by: Ameer Ahmed, Olivia Lace-Evans and Terry Sau
  
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• President Trump paints Joe Biden as a radical far-left candidate

  05-08-2020 23:45
  
  Trump, Dr. Jill Biden disagree on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's policies; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Manchester City complete £41m signing of Bournemouth defender Nathan Ake

  05-08-2020 23:45
  
  Manchester City have completed the signing of defender Nathan Ake from Bournemouth.City agreed a £40million fee, rising to a potential £41m, with the relegated Cherries last week and the 25-year-old has signed a five-year contract.
  
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• Woman arrested for beating disabled shopper who asked her to put on mask in crowded Staples store

  05-08-2020 23:43
  
  A woman has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a 54-year-old woman in a New Jersey Staples store after a dispute over a face mask.The Hackensack Police Department announced on Tuesday that 25-year-old Terri Thomas had been arrested for the incident that occurred on 29 July.
  
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• Trump’s Debate Moderator Wish List Is Stacked With Fox News Stars and Pushovers

  05-08-2020 23:43
  
  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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• Beijing attacks US's ‘doomed to fail’ strategy in South China Sea as tensions flare

  05-08-2020 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BEIJING has launched a scathing attack on the US saying Washington strategy in the South China Sea was "wishful" and "doomed to fail" as tensions flare between the nations.
  
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• Coronavirus: Luton mayor resigns after breaking lockdown rules at garden party

  05-08-2020 23:41
  
  The mayor of Luton has stepped down after breaking coronavirus guidelines at a large garden gathering.Councillor Tahir Malik said he regretted his actions and that resignation was the “best thing” he could do for the town.
  
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• A look at some deadly explosions involving ammonium nitrate

  05-08-2020 23:40
  
  The investigation into an explosion in the harbor of Lebanon's port city of Beirut is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical used in fertilizers, came to be stored at the facility for six years, and why nothing was done about it.Aug. 12, 2015: A massive warehouse explosion rocked the port city of Tianjin, China, killing 173 people and injuring nearly 800.Investigators found the warehouse held illegal stores of ammonium nitrate, which caught fire and caused a
  
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• Report: Texas Tech women's staff fostered culture of abuse

  05-08-2020 23:38
  
  Texas Tech women's basketball players have accused coach Marlene Stollings and her staff of fostering a culture of abuse that led to an exodus from the program, according to a report published Wednesday.Players dreaded a heart monitoring system they said was misused in punitive ways, had to endure demeaning and threatening comments and were subject to sexually suggestive behavior from a strength coach who has since resigned, according to the report.
  
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• Jake Paul: FBI gathers rifles in search of YouTuber's California mansion

  05-08-2020 23:37
  
  Swat team enters property but no arrests are made as search warrant executed at Calabasas homeFBI agents, including a Swat team, served a search warrant at a California mansion belonging to the YouTube star Jake Paul on Wednesday.The FBI executed the early morning search warrant at the Calabasas home in connection with an ongoing investigation, said Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman, in a statement. Continue reading...
  
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• 'It Actually Happened!' Weather Enthusiast Overjoyed at Finding End of Rainbow

  05-08-2020 23:37
  
  A young weather enthusiast was thrilled when he found “the end of the rainbow” glowing on an antenna tower in Vaughan, Ontario, on August 5.Gabriel Berardo recorded this footage and posted it to Twitter. Berardo can be heard exclaiming, “There’s the end of the rainbow, guys! We have found the end of the rainbow right there.” Berardo adds, “Someone said that would never happen!”While Berardo does appear to find the end of the rainbow, according to Scienti
  
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• Exclusive: Fauci says regulators promise politics will not guide vaccine timing

  05-08-2020 23:37
  
  U.S. regulators have assured scientists that political pressure will not determine when a coronavirus vaccine is approved even as the White House hopes to have one ready ahead of the November presidential election, infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday."We have assurances, and I've discussed this with the regulatory authorities, that they promise that they are not going to let political considerations interfere with a regulatory decision," Fauci told Reuters in an interview.P
  
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• Sen. Chris Coons on status of COVID relief package negotiations, Biden's readiness to debate President Trump

  05-08-2020 23:33
  
  Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a surrogate for the Biden campaign, joins Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier with insight.
  
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• Britain targets red tape in bid to get more homes built

  05-08-2020 23:32
  
  Britain will set out proposals on Thursday to speed up homebuilding by cutting red tape and opening up the sector to smaller firms, in a bid to address a long-term housing shortage.Successive Conservative-led governments have sought to reform the housing market by increasing supply, conscious of a generation of younger renters who have been priced out of owning their own homes in many parts of the country.Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has set its sights on reforming the planning syst
  
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• 'We don't seem to learn': Beirut explosion echoes US tragedy

  05-08-2020 23:30
  
  The staggering videos from the Lebanese capital are grimly familiar to Tommy Muska thousands of miles away in Texas: a towering blast, a thundering explosion and shock waves demolishing buildings with horrifying speed.It is what the mayor of West, Texas, lived seven years ago when one of the deadliest fertilizer plant explosions in U.S. history partly leveled his rural town.On Wednesday, Muska also couldn't shake a familiar feeling — that yet again, no lessons will be learned.
  
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• Trump campaign demands early September presidential debate

  05-08-2020 23:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  In request for fourth event between president and Joe Biden, Rudy Giuliani calls current schedule 'outdated dinosaur and not reflective of voting realities in 2020'
  
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• Nicaragua archbishop rejects that chapel fire was accidental

  05-08-2020 23:26
  
  Managua’s Roman Catholic archbishop celebrated Mass on Wednesday in front of a fire-scorched chapel at the capital’s cathedral and reiterated the church’s assertion that the fire was a “savage and terrorist” act and not an accident as reported by the National Police.Cardinal Leopoldo did not say who he believes was responsible for Friday's fire.Holding up the charred head of the Christ figure from a widely veneerated four centuries-old wooden crucifixion sculpture t
  
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• Georgia Schools Reopen To Packed Hallways And Students Testing Positive For COVID-19

  05-08-2020 23:26
  
  Students in Georgia's Paulding and Cherokee counties went back to school this week, with decidedly mixed results.
  
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• Fauci expects tens of millions of Covid vaccines ready in early 2021

  05-08-2020 23:25
  
  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.He ad
  
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• Garland, Hall each score in 3rd as Coyotes beat Preds 4-1

  05-08-2020 23:24
  
  Conor Garland and Taylor Hall each scored in the third period and the Arizona Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators 4-1 Wednesday.Now the Coyotes, seeded 11th in the West in the NHL's restart, can eliminate the sixth-seeded Predators in Game 4 on Friday in this best-of-five qualifying series.Christian Dvorak scored on Arizona’s first shot of the game, and Coyotes scored three in the third for the victory capped by Carl Soderberg's empty-netter inside the final two minutes.
  
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• Netherlands introduces mask-wearing measures in busy neighbourhoods in Amsterdam

  05-08-2020 23:22
  
  Visitors and residents alike mask up as Amsterdam introduces mask-wearing measures in certain busy areas including the red-light district. Non-compliers risk a 95-euro fine.
  
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• Cardinals return to St. Louis, get in workout ahead of games

  05-08-2020 23:19
  
  The St. Louis Cardinals returned to the field for light workouts Wednesday, nearly a week after an outbreak of COVID-19 forced the club and its staff members to quarantine in Milwaukee and set the rest of their season into upheaval.Cardinals manager Mike Shildt called it “a breath of fresh air” after five days spent in The Pfister Hotel, where players tried to keep their arms limber by throwing baseballs into mattresses and pillows.The Cardinals had returned 13 positive tests in thei
  
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• Beirut Locals Work to Clean Up Mar Mikhael Neighborhood Near Blast Site

  05-08-2020 23:11
  
  Locals in Beirut worked to clean up streets filled with debris on Wednesday, August 5, following the massive explosion on Tuesday that killed 135 people and injured more than 5,000 others, according to figures released by Lebanon’s health minister.There was widespread destruction to cars and buildings in the downtown area near the blast site.This video shows locals working to clean up a street in the city’s Mar Mikhael neighborhood, near the Port of Beirut.The Daily Star Lebanon said
  
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• Twitter hack hearing hacked as graphic porn shuts down appearance of accused teenage ‘mastermind’ Graham Clark

  05-08-2020 23:08
  
  Hackers playing porn and loud music forced a judge to end a bond hearing for the alleged ‘mastermind’ behind a massive hack of high-profile Twitter accounts belonging to Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Kanye West and many others.The virtual hearing of Graham Ivan Clark lasted all of 25 minutes after several “Zoombombers” posing as staffers from CNN and BBC entered the chat app on Wednesday.
  
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• Twitter hack hearing hacked as graphic porn shuts down appearance of accused teenage 'mastermind' Graham Clark

  05-08-2020 23:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Users calling themselves 'CNN' and 'BBC' interrupted lawyers for 17-year-old who allegedly scammed $100,000 worth of bitcoin
  
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• Stress from the coronavirus pandemic could trigger broken heart syndrome

  05-08-2020 23:05
  
  The coronavirus epidemic has had far-reaching consequences, even for those who weren't infected by the virus.A recent study reveals that a significant increase in the number of 'broken heart syndrome' cases was observed in two hospitals in Ohio, in patients who did not suffer from Covid-19.Watch the above video to learn more.
  
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• No hoopla: Virus upends Trump, Biden convention plans

  05-08-2020 23:04
  
  At the last minute, President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, are searching for places to impressively yet safely accept their parties' presidential nominations as the spread of the coronavirus adds fresh uncertainty to the campaign for the White House.Trump said Wednesday he's considering giving his Aug. 27 acceptance speech on the grounds of the White House, a move that could violate ethics law.Biden, meanwhile, scrapped plans to accept the Democratic nomination on Aug. 20 in
  
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• Iowa ends lifetime voting ban on people with felony convictions

  05-08-2020 23:02
  
  Iowa ends lifetime voting ban on people with felony convictionsRepublican governor signs historic executive order in only state that was enforcing policy* Join us for an online event with Eric Holder to discuss voter suppression in the 2020 election, Thursday at 5pm ET. Register now
  
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• Surviving the Virus: My Brother and Me review – a rigorous dispatch from the Covid frontline

  05-08-2020 23:00
  
  Surviving the Virus: My Brother and Me review – a rigorous dispatch from the Covid frontlineDrs Chris and Xand van Tulleken treat vulnerable care home residents and gravely ill coronavirus patients in this intelligent, emotional one-off
  
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• Cricket braced for redundancies as Covid creates potential £182m deficit

  05-08-2020 23:00
  
  Cricket braced for redundancies as Covid creates potential £182m deficit* ECB holds talks with £106m deficit now minimum expected* Board has begun discussions around cost-cutting measures
  
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• Column: Big and booming, DeChambeau is PGA Tour must-see TV

  05-08-2020 23:00
  
  It’s hard to find a reason to like Bryson DeChambeau.Bulked up on protein shakes and M&M’s, DeChambeau has so far this year been making a mockery of golf courses designed by architects who had no idea what golf of the future might look like.In a sport where conformity is king, he is the most compelling player not named Tiger Woods.
  
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• Morning mail: Beirut mourns, Keating 'out of touch', Lizzy Hoo's 10 funniest things

  05-08-2020 22:55
  
  Morning mail: Beirut mourns, Keating 'out of touch', Lizzy Hoo's 10 funniest thingsThursday: More than 300,000 left homeless as families search hospitals for loved ones after blast. Plus, the Uighur model detained in Xinjiang
  
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• The great lockdown lie-in: Radio 1 moves breakfast show as listeners get up later

  05-08-2020 22:53
  
  Lockdown lie-ins have changed the radio breakfast show with audiences now more likely to tune it at 10am than 8am, according to new figures. Listening to the radio in the car fell 49 per cent from pre-lockdown levels and in the workplace by 64 per cent as schools closed and people shifted to working from home. The data from April, compiled by the industry body, Rajar, showed how our habits changed as normal life was suspended. Rajar said; “With no school runs or commuting to work, we saw t
  
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• Denver fire: Five people including three children found dead in suspected arson attack

  05-08-2020 22:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  'Our heart and our prayers go out to this community,' says captain Greg Pixley
  
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• Coronavirus: France and Spain record big rises in cases as French situation 'precarious'

  05-08-2020 22:49
  
  France and Spain have both reported large daily rises in coronavirus cases amid fears that parts of Europe could be hit by a second wave later in the year. The UK government is currently advising against all but essential travel to Spain , including the Balearic and Canary Islands where infection rates are lower than on the mainland, and anybody coming back from the country is having to quarantine for two weeks. France has reported 1,695 new COVID-19 infections over 24 hours.
  
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• NYPD Delivers Generator to Dialysis Patient Amid Power Outage

  05-08-2020 22:43
  
  The New York Police Department delivered a generator to a double amputee on dialysis on August 5, after Tropical Storm Isaias left thousands of New Yorkers without electricity.Footage of the delivery shows officers pushing the generator up a driveway.The video’s caption read: “This generator is going to a double amputee who is on dialysis and needed power because the storm knocked it out. Thank you New Yorkers for reaching out and telling us about our neighbor.”Tropical Storm I
  
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• WW3 fears: Nuclear war more likely today than any time since Hiroshima, say experts

  05-08-2020 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AS THE GLOBAL community prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of the World War II bombing of Hiroshima, a group of researchers have warned the world is closer to a nuclear war today than anytime since the disaster that killed hundreds of thousands.
  
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• Sen. Paul calls out Republican stimulus spending

  05-08-2020 22:38
  
  Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul speaks out against massive government borrowing and spending amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Hospitals prescribe lullabies to help Covid patients breathe easier

  05-08-2020 22:38
  
  A hospital trust is prescribing lullabies to help patients recover from Covid-19, in a partnership with English National Opera. Patients suffering from breathlessness and anxiety will be given a six-week, online programme of “singing, breathing and wellbeing”. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust said some patients continue to experience breathlessness for some time after other Covid symptoms have disappeared. “This can increase anxiety, which in turn can cause patients to tak
  
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• Russian swimmers complete eco-relay across Lake Baikal

  05-08-2020 22:37
  
  A group of Russians complete an icy swim across Lake Baikal in Siberia in an effort to draw attention to ecological threats facing the world's largest freshwater lake.
  
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• Government’s ‘pitiful’ planning reforms ‘will cost Britain decades in fighting climate change’

  05-08-2020 22:32
  
  The government's proposed reforms of the planning system will cost Britain decades in the fight against climate change and resign nature to "isolated fragments of land", environmentalist have warned.Countryside charities said plans to make new homes carbon neutral by as late as 2050 – beyond what scientists say will be a tipping point for climate change – as "pitiful" and dramatically less ambitious than previous ambitions scrapped by ministers.
  
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• Fauci expects tens of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses at start of 2021

  05-08-2020 22:31
  
  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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• Study finds most people are not planning holidays

  05-08-2020 22:30
  
  We all may be stuck at home reminiscing about our favourite getaway or just daydreaming about where we would like to go if there wasn't a pandemic, but when it comes to actually taking time off work between now and the end of the year, 67% of professionals say they have no plans to do so.This is according to a new LinkedIn study.As you can imagine, many are hesitating to take time off because of the pandemic.52% say the risk associated with Covid 19 a stopping them from travelling.Watch the abov
  
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• Monsoon rain puts pressure on China’s Three Gorges dam

  05-08-2020 22:30
  
  Monsoon rain puts pressure on China’s Three Gorges damSome parts of China had double the normal amount of rainfall in June and July
  
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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 independent.co.uk
  
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• Trump news - live: 'Unethical' president plans to accept GOP nomination at White House, as expert with perfect prediction record says Biden will win

  05-08-2020 22:29 via independent.co.uk
  
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• HBO's 'Coastal Elites' cast tackles social satire, anxiety

  05-08-2020 22:29
  
  For Bette Midler and Sarah Paulson, making HBO's “Coastal Elites” in pandemic-forced isolation proved an unsettling challenge.For Midler, the unusual working conditions reinforced how hard the pandemic has slammed the entertainment industry.“People used to say that showbiz was depression-proof,” Midler said, with moviegoers keeping it afloat during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
  
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• Francona still not managing Indians due to medical condition

  05-08-2020 22:26
  
  Indians manager Terry Francona remains absent from the team to get rest while dealing with a gastrointestinal issue that he's battled for months.Francona will miss his fourth straight game Wednesday night when the Indians return home to play two straight against the Reds.The two teams just wrapped up a two-game series in Cincinnati while Francona underwent tests and exams for three days at the Cleveland Clinic.
  
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• Dr. Ashish Jha says masks will be critical part of reopening schools safely amid COVID pandemic

  05-08-2020 22:24
  
  Suburban Atlanta school district faces questions after students pictured shoulder-to- shoulder in a hallway with few masks to be seen; reaction from Dr. Ashish Jha, director of Harvard's Global Health Institute.
  
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