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• States are reopening. But many still require travelers to self-quarantine. Here's where

  25-05-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  States may be beginning to open back up but some are still requiring visitors to self-quarantine for two weeks. See which states still have this rule.
  
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• Brazil's Bolsonaro says he expects top court to end probe into his conduct over police

  25-05-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro expects the Supreme Court to find no wrongdoing and end an investigation into potential political interference in the federal police, according to a statement from the presidential palace on Monday.An allegation by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro, a popular anti-graft crusader, that Bolsonaro aimed to interfere in police investigations has become a political scandal adding to the public health crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Coronavirus: Joe Biden emerges from quarantine on Memorial Day

  25-05-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Democratic presidential candidate makes his first public appearance in more than two months.
  
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• Several high school students in Georgia tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a drive-through graduation parade

  25-05-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Lovett School in Atlanta did not disclose how many students had tested positive for COVID-19, but described the number as "several."
  
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• California issues guidelines for church reopenings

  25-05-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Religious services in California will look much different under rules unveiled Monday that limit attendance to 100 people and recommend worshippers wear masks, limit singing and refrain from shaking hands or hugging.The state released guidance under which county health departments can approve the reopening of churches, mosques, synagogues and other houses of worship.Others with outbreaks — such as Los Angeles County, which has about 60% of California’s roughly 3,800 deaths — ma
  
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• Oklahoma woman missing since April following Facebook post that indicated she believed she had coronavirus

  25-05-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Talina Galloway, 53, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, was last heard from by her boss on March 27, 2020. Her last Facebook post was dated April 7. In the post, the posted stated she believed she had coronavirus but did not want to go to the hospital. Her purse and wallet were left at home. Her car was still in the driveway. She has a distinct tattoo of a sun symbol on her right wrist. The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.
  
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• Federal coronavirus testing plan puts burden on states

  25-05-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration’s new strategy for coronavirus testing puts much of the burden on states while promising to provide supplies such as swabs and material to transport specimens.In a joint letter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. and Washington Sen. Patty Murray said the administration “still does not have a serious plan for increasing testing to stop the spread of the virus.”President Donald Trump, who
  
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• Virgin Orbit successfully dropped a rocket from a jumbo jet and ignited it, but its launch failed due to an 'anomaly'

  25-05-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Virgin Orbit's first rocket launch failed due to an unexplained problem after it had a "clean release" from the Cosmic Girl jumbo jet.
  
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• Gov. Andrew Cuomo out of the coronavirus speculation business

  25-05-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York governor says coronavirus projections from experts were all wrong. 'We all failed.'
  
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• Is international travel allowed yet? See when Spain, Mexico, Italy, UK plan to reopen borders

  25-05-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spain has announced that it will reopen its borders to foreign tourists in July and Mexico will start reopening in June. See when others will follow.
  
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• Biden makes first in-person appearance in over 2 months

  25-05-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance in over two months on Monday as he commemorated Memorial Day by laying a wreath at a veterans’ park near his Delaware home.
  
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• A second immigrant has died from COVID-19 while in ICE custody

  25-05-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Santiago Baten-Oxlag, an immigrant in custody of the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency, died from COVID-19 on Sunday.
  
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• Alabama's Easing of Restrictions Has Given 'A False Sense of Security,' Says Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed

  25-05-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cases of coronavirus are on the rise in Alabama, where Gov. Kay Ivey has allowed summer camps, movie theaters, casinos and more to reopen as…
  
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• Kentucky lockdown protesters condemned for hanging effigy of governor from tree

  25-05-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Incident at conservative rally draws backlash from Democrats and RepublicansPolitical leaders in Kentucky have condemned rightwing protesters against the state’s measures to fight the coronavirus, after the demonstrators hanged an effigy of Democratic state governor Andy Beshear from a tree.The incident happened on Sunday during a protest in favor of gun rights and other mostly conservative causes. Several men produced a rope and an effigy and strung it from a tree outside the state capito
  
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• Desperate rats are brazenly searching for food during the coronavirus pandemic, CDC warns

  25-05-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The CDC is warning that rodent populations – which can no longer rely on a banquet of scraps in restaurant dumpsters – are spiking in certain areas.
  
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• Feds looking at Ahmaud Arbery's death as a hate crime, attorneys say

  25-05-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia said his office is looking into why Glynn County and the state of Georgia took so long to make arrests, Arbery's family's attorneys said.
  
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• Dutch PM Mark Rutte didn't see mother before her death because he followed virus lockdown rules

  25-05-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was unable to visit his dying mother in her final weeks because he obeyed coronavirus restrictions against visiting care homes, his office said on Monday. Mr Rutte on Monday announced the death of 96-year-old Mieke Rutte-Dilling in a home in The Hague on May 13, nearly two months after the government shut all such institutions to the public on March 20. "The prime minister has complied with all directives," Mr Rutte's spokesman told AFP when asked about reports th
  
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• Home Office approaches Australian Border Force chief who helped mastermind return of sea migrants

  25-05-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Home Office has approached the Australian border force chief credited with helping end its crisis over migrant sea crossings. Chris Philp, the immigration minister, is understood to have contacted Roman Quaedvlieg, former head of Australian border force, to consult him over the country’s Operation Sovereign Borders which saw its patrol force turn back migrants on boats and return them to their port of origin. In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Quaedvlieg said Britain needed to intr
  
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• Trump commemorates Memorial Day and defends his decision to play golf

  25-05-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump paid tribute to fallen members of the American military on Monday to commemorate Memorial Day while defending his decision to spend most of the holiday weekend playing golf as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the United States neared 100,000.
  
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• Two-faced kitten dies 4 days after birth

  25-05-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most two-faced cats — known as Janus cats — only live one day. ??????
  
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• Connecticut murder suspect's family pleads for his surrender

  25-05-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A lawyer for the family of a Connecticut murder suspect pleaded Monday for his surrender as police involved in a multi-state search for the 23-year-old college student circulated a photo of a person matching his description walking along railroad tracks in Pennsylvania.Peter Manfredonia, a University of Connecticut senior, is suspected of killing Ted DeMers, 62, and Nicholas Eisele, 23, before forcing Eisele's girlfriend into her car and fleeing the state with her.Manfredonia, who is believed to
  
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• After Ahmaud Arbery killing, new push for Georgia hate crime law

  25-05-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Only a handful of states have no hate crime statutes on their books — Georgia is one of them, but that could soon change.
  
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• Navajo Nation imposes 57-hour lockdown as virus death toll rises

  25-05-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even essential businesses must remain closed as the entire tribe enters a strict lockdown for Memorial Day weekend.
  
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• 'Slap in the face to our veterans': Michigan war memorial destroyed by flooding

  25-05-2020 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Over 100 people from the community played a role in building Sanford's war memorial. Last year, the town’s Memorial Day parade started & ended there.
  
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• Joe Biden made his first appearance outside his home in 2 months to honor Memorial Day at a Delaware veterans park

  25-05-2020 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden and his wife, Jill, wore black face masks in their first public appearance during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Ilhan Omar says she believes woman who claims Joe Biden sexually assaulted her

  25-05-2020 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrat "squad" member Ilhan Omar says she believes sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden but would vote for him anyway to defeat Donald Trump.In a Tweet defending her support of accuser Tara Reade, the Minnesota congresswoman said that "believing survivors is consistent with my values".
  
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• Republicans sue to block California Gov. Newsom from mailing ballots to all voters

  25-05-2020 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican organizations called the Democratic governor's order an illegal "usurpation of the legislature's authority."
  
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• Whitaker: Flynn judge twisted the rules to keep the case alive

  25-05-2020 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The judge in the Michael Flynn case hires a personal attorney as an appeals court looks at his decision not to immediately dismiss the charges; former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker reacts.
  
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• Suriname's president seeks re-election after murder conviction

  25-05-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, a former military ruler who has dominated the country's politics in recent decades, was seeking a third term in an election on Monday, about six months after a local court found him guilty of murder in absentia.Bouterse, who has avoided prison due to his presidential immunity, has appealed the conviction, and the court is due to reconvene next month.Bouterse never served the sentence but can still be arrested in countries that have extradition treaties with th
  
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• Memorial Day: Biden wears face mask for first public appearance in 10 weeks but Trump refuses to

  25-05-2020 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden has appeared in public for the first time in more than two months to mark Memorial Day.In contrast to Donald Trump who has not worn masks during public appearances, both Mr Biden and his wife Jill Biden wore black face masks to lay a wreath a memorial for World War II and Korean War veterans in Delaware.
  
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• Coronavirus live updates: U.S. marks Memorial Day as deaths near 100,000

  25-05-2020 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here are the latest coronavirus updates from around the world.
  
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• Israeli leader vows to push ahead with annexing West Bank

  25-05-2020 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday pledged to annex parts of the occupied West Bank in the coming months, vowing to move ahead with the explosive plan despite a growing chorus of condemnations by key allies.The Palestinians, with wide international backing, seek the entire West Bank as the heartland of a future independent state.In an apparent reference to the friendly administration of President Donald Trump, Netanyahu said Israel had a “historic opportunity” to red
  
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• WHO announces it will temporarily suspend hydroxychloroquine trials for COVID-19 treatment

  25-05-2020 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The study's steering committee met over the weekend, agreeing to suspend enrollment while gathering data about the safety and efficacy of the drug.
  
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• UN virus therapy trial pauses hydroxychloroquine testing

  25-05-2020 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organization said Monday that it will temporarily drop hydroxychloroquine — the anti-malarial drug U.S. President Trump says he is taking — from its global study into experimental COVID-19 treatments, saying that its experts need to review all available evidence to date.In a press briefing, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that in light of a paper published last week in the Lancet that showed people taking hydroxychloroquine were at higher risk of
  
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• Egypt's doctors criticize government over virus 'negligence'

  25-05-2020 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Egypt’s medical union on Monday blamed the government for increasing levels of coronavirus infections and deaths among healthcare professionals, its sharpest criticism yet of the country’s handling of the pandemic.Citing growing frustration over a lack of protective equipment, testing and hospital beds for front-line doctors, the union described the Egyptian health ministry’s negligence as “a crime of killing by irresponsibility.”The union reported that 19 doctors h
  
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• Trump spends Memorial Day weekend golfing and insulting female politicians

  25-05-2020 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President tweets and retweets personal attacks against Pelosi and Abrams as US approaches 100,000 coronavirus deaths* Coronavirus – latest global updatesEven by Donald Trump’s standards, it was a wild ride. On a Memorial Day weekend when coronavirus deaths in the US closed in on 100,000, and a grateful nation paid respects to its war dead, its president took to the golf course and turned to social media to unleash a barrage of personal attacks on foes old, new and perceived.On Saturd
  
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• Joe Biden makes first public appearance since March

  25-05-2020 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The apparent Democratic presidential nominee and his wife laid a wreath Monday to honor Delaware war dead, his first public foray since mid-March.
  
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• WHO fears 'silent' virus epidemic unless Africa prioritizes testing

  25-05-2020 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The WHO's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Africa was the region with the fewest diagnosed coronavirus cases, accounting for less than 1.5% of the global total and just 0.1% of deaths.The WHO regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said some countries had taken measures to curb the disease at a high economic cost.
  
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• SpaceX and NASA Are Set for a Historic Crewed Launch This Week. Here's How to Watch

  25-05-2020 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It'll be the first launch of American astronauts from American soil in nearly a decade
  
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• Afghan govt frees Taliban prisoners as truce holds for second day

  25-05-2020 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Afghan authorities released 100 Taliban prisoners Monday as part of the government's response to a surprise, three-day ceasefire the insurgents called to mark the Eid al-Fitr festival.The pause in fighting, only the second of its kind in Afghanistan's nearly 19-year-old war, was for the most part holding across the country on day two after the government welcomed the truce by announcing plans to release up to 2,000 Taliban inmates.President Ashraf Ghani said his administration was also ready to
  
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• Ex-strongman Bouterse seeks another term in Suriname

  25-05-2020 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Few leaders have the sort of shadows that hang over Suriname's President Dési Bouterse, a former coup leader and strongman, convicted of murder and drug smuggling, who is overseeing a dire economy.Opposition activists are also worried that the coronavirus pandemic has reduced the number of international election observers, and some believe the virus-prompted ban on mass meetings favors Bouterse, who has continued to make official visits to poor neighborhoods.
  
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• Joe Biden wears mask in 1st public appearance since March

  25-05-2020 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden is back.Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday made his first public appearance since mid-March as he visited a veterans memorial in Delaware, notably clad in a mask. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee laid a wreath in honor of Memorial Day, alongside his wife, Jill Biden, who also wore a mask.Biden's choice to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic is in stark contrast to President Donald Trump, who ofte
  
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• Trump sees a ‘rigged election’ ahead. Democrats see a constitutional crisis in the making.

  25-05-2020 18:21 via politico.com
  
  The president’s increasingly amped-up rhetoric surrounding the integrity of the November elections has many wondering how he might respond to a defeat.
  
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• Cuomo says state frontline workers who died from coronavirus will get death benefits

  25-05-2020 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday that frontline workers who were state employees will receive death benefits if they died in the line of duty. "I want to make sure that we repay them -- not just by saying thank you and running nice television commercials," Cuomo said.
  
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• Trump marks Memorial Day by defending his weekend of golfing as the US coronavirus death toll creeps toward 100,000

  25-05-2020 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump frequently criticized Obama for golfing while he was in the White House, but has not held himself to the same standard as president.
  
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• Judge rules against Florida Republican-backed law blocking felons from voting until they pay legal fees

  25-05-2020 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge in Tallahassee ruled on Sunday night that Florida law can't stop felons from voting because they can't pay back any legal fees and restitution they owe.The judge's decision could have deep ramifications as the state’s estimated 774,000 disenfranchised felons represent a significant voting bloc.
  
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• Italy reports 92 coronavirus deaths on Monday, just 300 new infections

  25-05-2020 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 92 on Monday, against 50 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases dropped to just 300 from 531 on Sunday.Sunday's daily death toll did not include fatalities from the worst-affected Lombardy region, due to technical problems.It was not immediately clear if Lombardy's deaths from Sunday had been added on Monday, when the region reported 34 new fatalities.
  
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• Out of the house: Democrat Biden makes first public appearance in weeks

  25-05-2020 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday made his first public appearance outside his Delaware home since quarantining himself due to the coronavirus pandemic 10 weeks ago, visiting a nearby veterans memorial to mark the U.S. Memorial Day holiday.Biden, the prospective Democratic presidential nominee, and his wife, Jill, both wearing black masks, laid a wreath of white roses at the memorial for U.S. military personnel who fought in World War Two and the Korean War.“It feels good to be out
  
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• Biden under increasing pressure to choose minority running mate amid 'you ain't black' backlash

  25-05-2020 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Black activists are warning Joe Biden not to pick Sen. Amy Klobuchar as his running mate; Fox News contributor Byron York reacts.
  
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• US urges probe into alleged ethics breach at African Development Bank

  25-05-2020 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Department of the Treasury has called on the African Development Bank (AfDB) to carry out an independent probe into alleged ethics breaches by its president, Akinwumi Adesina.In a letter obtained by AFP on Monday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin expressed "deep reservations" about the outcome of an internal inquiry clearing Adesina, and urged the appointment of an independent outside investigator.The letter, dated May 22, was sent to the chair of the AfDB's board, Ivorian Planning an
  
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