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• Democrats say U.S. withdrawal from Open Skies Treaty may be illegal

  22-06-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senior U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday accused President Donald Trump's administration of violating the law when it declared his intention last month to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty.In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mike Esper, the Democrats said the administration had not given the legally required 120 days' advance notice to Congress before beginning the withdrawal process.
  
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• 27-year-old charged in toppling of North Carolina Confederate monument in Raleigh

  22-06-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 27-year-old activist has been charged in Friday's toppling of the Confederate monument in Raleigh.
  
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• As Confederate Statues Come Down, It's Worth Remembering That the Civil War Wasn't the Only American Conflict Involving Slavery

  22-06-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More important, more direct and much less well-publicized was the impact of slavery in instigating the American Revolution
  
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• 1 city, 1 voting place: Kentucky braces for lines in primary

  22-06-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With only one polling place designated for Louisville on Tuesday, voters who didn't cast mail-in ballots or show up early could face long lines in Kentucky's primary election, the latest to unfold in a pandemic that has triggered unprecedented election disruptions across the country.The outcome of a competitive Democratic U.S. Senate primary could hang in the balance if Election Day turnout is hampered in Louisville — the hometown of Charles Booker, who has mounted a strong late challenge
  
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• Ousted U.S. prosecutor refused to sign letter blasting coronavirus limits on religious gatherings

  22-06-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shortly before Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman was forced out of his post on Friday, he refused to sign off on a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice blasting New York City’s mayor for imposing social-distancing rules on religious gatherings, a department official confirmed on Monday.The letter, which was signed by the department's top civil rights attorney, criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio for limiting the number of people who could attend religious gathering
  
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• FCC orders radio station in Mexico to halt broadcast of Chinese programs to U.S.

  22-06-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FCC said the broadcast studio is used by Phoenix Radio, a company wholly owned by Phoenix TV, but not listed as an applicant.The FCC rejected the request as "deficient" but said the applicants - and Phoenix Radio - could refile the request.
  
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• Russian Tanks Show Up for Parade, Proceed To Destroy City Streets

  22-06-2020 23:13 via popularmechanics.com
  
  Even a relatively light tank will chew up asphalt roads.
  
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• 'Like gasoline and fire': Former friend speaks out about Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell

  22-06-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I saw him as the hand and her as the puppet on that hand," Melanie Gibb said. "They were both like gasoline and fire. Not a good match."
  
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• Houston 'moving fast in the wrong direction,' mayor says

  22-06-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mayor Sylvester Turner teed up a response to Gov. Abbott calling Texas' rate of spread "unacceptable."
  
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• Police in, then out, as Georgia hate crimes bill moves ahead

  22-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an abrupt turn, Republicans in the Georgia Senate removed protections for police from hate crimes legislation on Monday night, just days after adding them in over the objection of civil rights groups and Democrats.First responders were removed as a protected class from the bill by the Senate Rules Committee after lawmakers said they struck a deal between parties.Calls for Georgia to remove itself from the list of four U.S. states without a hate crimes law have grown following the death of Ahm
  
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• Not a single police department in 20 largest US cities compliant with international rights laws, report finds

  22-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Use-of-force policies in police departments in 20 of the largest cities in the US failed to meet even ”minimum standards” under international human rights guidelines, according to a report from the University of Chicago Law School.The report from the law school’s International Human Rights Clinic, highlights American policing’s difficulty balancing power with maintaining basic human rights, and the chasm between law enforcement in the US and elsewhere.
  
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• Americans Need to Know the Truth About William Barr's Friday Night Massacre. We Can't Afford to Wait

  22-06-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  William Barr said Geoffrey Berman resigned before saying the President should
  
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• Trump says Americans will get another round of stimulus payments if Congress can pass another relief deal

  22-06-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Now it's on Congress to pass another round of relief for the White House to sign. There's no word yet on what that package might include.
  
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• Study: Antibody levels in recovered COVID-19 patients decline quickly

  22-06-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Levels of an antibody found in recovered COVID-19 patients fell sharply 2 to 3 months after infection for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, according to a Chinese study.
  
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• Teddy Roosevelt statue at entrance of New York's Museum of Natural History to be removed

  22-06-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reaction from Alveda King, Fox News contributor and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
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• 2 Trump campaign staffers who were at the president's Tulsa rally tested positive for COVID-19

  22-06-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least eight staffers who were involved in President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday have tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• 9 hand sanitizers may contain toxic methanol, FDA warns

  22-06-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Methanol can be toxic when ingested or applied to the skin.
  
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• Peru indigenous leaders push quick Amazon protection vote, defying oil industry

  22-06-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peru's indigenous leaders have been lobbying lawmakers to pass a bill to declare swathes of virgin Amazon rainforest off limits to outsiders, but they fear opposition by the oil industry may scupper a rare opportunity to secure a vote this week.With concerns growing that the coronavirus pandemic could devastate remote communities, Congress is considering whether to fast track a bill which would restrict access to a string of indigenous territories near the border with Ecuador and Brazil.Advocate
  
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• 'Off-the-charts warm': Siberian town hits 100 degrees

  22-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The milestone comes as Siberia — and the Asian continent as a whole — have experienced unusually warm conditions since the start of 2020.
  
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• Trump opens door to another round of stimulus checks, direct deposits

  22-06-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president said in an interview the amount would be "generous" but didn't put a dollar figure on it.
  
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• Trump's helicopter 'walk of shame' widely mocked online following Tulsa rally

  22-06-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump was caught on camera looking “deflated” on his way back from his disappointing first campaign rally in three months since the outbreak of coronavirus on Saturday, and the Internet noticed.The rally, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, proved to have a disappointing turnout with just over 6,000 people turning up to the event at the 19,000 capacity BOK arena.
  
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• Brazilians flock to beach as WHO says country undercounting coronavirus surge

  22-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil reached more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases and 50,000 deaths over the weekend as throngs of people swarmed Rio de Janeiro beaches, but the World Health Organization said on Monday that even more cases were likely going uncounted.Brazil's health ministry said on Monday that an additional 21,432 confirmed cases of the virus and 654 new deaths had been registered in the previous 24 hours.A day earlier, swimmers and sunbathers packed Rio's famous beaches, with many neither wearin
  
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• Trump announces new visa restrictions on immigrant workers but exempts agriculture, food service, health

  22-06-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump expands restrictions on U.S. visas to target temporary workers from tech to seasonal construction, but includes broad carve-outs.
  
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• CNN Anchor Corners Trump Campaign Spox: Are Dead Americans ‘Funny to You?’

  22-06-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN anchor Brianna Keilar took Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh to task on Monday, repeatedly pressing him to defend Team Trump’s claim that the president was just “kidding” when he claimed over the weekend that he asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing.During his sparsely attended Tulsa rally on Saturday night, President Donald Trump told his supporters that he called on officials to slow COVID-19 testing in order to decrease the number of
  
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• Scientists May Have Solved Mystery Surrounding Moon's 'Far Side'

  22-06-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scientists say they’ve gained insights into why there are significantly fewer dark surface features on Moon’s “far side” than they are the side that faces Earth.
  
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• Trump administration extends visa ban to non-immigrants

  22-06-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration said Monday that it was extending a ban on green cards issued outside the United States until the end of the year and adding many temporary work visas to the freeze, including those used heavily by technology companies and multinational corporations.The administration cast the effort as a way to free up jobs in an economy reeling from the coronavirus.The ban, while temporary, would amount to major restructuring of legal immigration if made permanent, a goal that had elud
  
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• It’s Hard to Find a Trump Who Hasn’t Voted by Mail

  22-06-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump went postal on Twitter Monday morning over the threat he claims mailed ballots pose to the integrity of U.S. elections—but his family seems to have never gotten the message.The commander in chief fired off another social media fusillade against the practice of submitting ballots through the post, which he has previously labeled “horrible,” “terrible,” and “corrupt,” as well as “dangerous,” “fraudulent,” and
  
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• Biden to participate in three debates with Trump

  22-06-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden's campaign is also calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to explain how it plans to hold the in-person debates scheduled for September and October, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• White House offers new explanation for firing Manhattan U.S. attorney

  22-06-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The circumstances surrounding the termination of Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has raised questions from congressional Democrats.
  
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• As Texas reports 10th straight day of record-high coronavirus hospitalizations, ex-FDA chief warns outbreaks could be 'tipping over into exponential growth'

  22-06-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Sunday, Texas reported 4,430 new coronavirus cases, marking an all-time high since the outbreak began.
  
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• Why the M2 Machine Gun Won't Die

  22-06-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It is still shooting to this very day.
  
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• Coronavirus Expected to Cause 10,000 More Cancer Deaths in U.S.

  22-06-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will likely cause at least 10,000 additional deaths from breast cancer and colorectal cancer over the next decade in the United States, according to one of the country’s leading voices on cancer.
  
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• Gunfight outside Riverside nightclub leaves 2 dead, security guard wounded

  22-06-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two people were shot and killed by security guard, who ended up wounded, during a gunfight outside of a Riverside nightclub early Monday morning.
  
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• Arizona firefighters forced to handle multiple historic wildfires at once

  22-06-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A dozen wildfires have torched nearly 400,000 burned acres in Arizona and have left much of the state, particularly the southeastern portion, in ruins. Nearly half of that acreage has come from the Bush Fire blazing in the Tonto National Forest, just north of Phoenix.As of Monday morning, the still-young 2020 wildfire season has already burned more Arizona land than all but two years since 2002. Three current active wildfires in the state all rank in the top-10 for largest blazes in Arizona hist
  
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• Oklahoma just reported its highest single-day increase in new coronavirus cases, after 3 weeks of rising numbers

  22-06-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's too soon to know how President Trump's rally in Tulsa on Saturday will affect the state's outbreak, however.
  
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• Indian prime minister says China lost at least 40 soldiers during border clash

  22-06-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China and India clashed at their disputed border this week, resulting in the lost of at least 40 Chinese soldiers.
  
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• U.S. designates four major Chinese media outlets as foreign missions

  22-06-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States will start treating four major Chinese media outlets as foreign embassies, it said on Monday, a move that will restrict their operations on American soil.David Stilwell, the senior U.S. diplomat for East Asia, told reporters the designation would affect China Central Television, the China News Service, the People's Daily and the Global Times, and reflected their real status as "propaganda outlets" under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.The move comes as U.S.-China ten
  
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• White House says Trump has no apology for calling coronavirus 'kung flu' at Tulsa rally

  22-06-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Monday that the president has no regrets about using a racial slur to refer to the deadly virus that originated in China.
  
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• Column: Trump's Tulsa rally was a dud. Sessions' tweet about it was cringe-inducing

  22-06-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jeff Sessions' comment on Trump's Tulsa rally may be the saddest tweet from a politician in the medium's short history.
  
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• Biden campaign says it is 'clear' Trump was not joking about cutting back coronavirus testing

  22-06-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden campaign deputy manager Kate Bedingfield joins 'The Daily Briefing.'
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon and her husband could be forced to give evidence under oath in Alex Salmond inquiry

  22-06-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nicola Sturgeon and her husband could be forced to give evidence under oath to a Scottish Parliament inquiry into the mishandling of misconduct claims against Alex Salmond. The Scottish First Minister also faces having to hand over her personal phone records as a specially-convened Holyrood committee gathers evidence over the summer. She has previously pledged to cooperate fully. The committee met for the first time since Mr Salmond was acquitted of 13 counts of sexual assault in March. It issue
  
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• Parler, a right-wing social media site, lures conservatives, but Trump sticks with Twitter — so far

  22-06-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many conservatives have been joining the social media site Parler in recent weeks, but President Trump has yet to do so.
  
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• Trump, Tulsa and the demise of Lincoln’s Republican Party

  22-06-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Though the name endures, the current Republican Party is no longer Lincoln's party that advocated freedom, democracy and justice for all
  
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• Here Are the 5 Guns the Russian Military Loves

  22-06-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Moscow's tools of choice.
  
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• Black Lives Matter protests have not caused spike in coronavirus cases, study finds

  22-06-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Black Lives Matter protests have not caused a spike in coronavirus cases, a new study has found. The study, which assessed data from 315 US cities, hypothesised that protests would increase disease transmission, but this was not borne out in the findings. The researchers, from various American colleges including San Diego State University, concluded there was “no evidence” to suggest the demonstrations had actually led to a surge nearly three weeks on. Titled "Black Lives Matter Prot
  
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• Post Malone Shows Off New Skull Tattoo and Shorter Hair | Billboard News

  22-06-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Post Malone is proudly showing off his new summer-ready haircut and massive head tattoo.
  
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• WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Addresses Trump's 'Kung Flu' Reference

  22-06-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House held a briefing.
  
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• Saudi Arabia to hold 'very limited' hajj due to virus

  22-06-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that because of the coronavirus only “very limited numbers” of people will be allowed to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage that traditionally draws around 2 million Muslims from around the world.The decision comes after weeks of speculation over whether Saudi Arabia would cancel the pilgrimage altogether or allow the hajj to be held in symbolic numbers.It's unclear why the government waited until just five weeks before the hajj to announce its decision, but
  
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• The U.S. Navy Is Ready for Trouble in the South China Sea or Near Taiwan

  22-06-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Not only do these types of operations extend the Navy’s ability to attack inland targets to a larger extent, extend target-searching dwell time and enable coordinated multi-platform strikes, but they also greatly improve destroyer-and-cruiser launched missile attacks.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez has spent more campaign money this cycle than any other Democrat up for re-election

  22-06-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In just two years, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has built a political operation rivalling those of some of the most prolific fundraising showstoppers in Washington.The New York Democrat has spent the most money of any House Democrat seeking re-election this fall, shelling out at least $6.3m so far this cycle, despite representing one of the most liberal districts in the country.
  
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