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• These states still require travelers to self-quarantine or present negative COVID-19 test

  23-06-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  States are opening back up, but some still require or recommend visitors self-quarantine for two weeks. Find out where.
  
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• North Korea suspends military action plans against South Korea

  23-06-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea is suspending military action plans against South Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday, as a report from Seoul suggested North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers reinstalled at the fortified border.Political tensions between the rival Koreas had been rising over Pyongyang's objections to plans by defector-led groups in the South to send propaganda leaflets into the North.Stalled negotiations regarding economic sanctions imposed because of the North's nu
  
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• Kentucky Shows What a Sane COVID-19 Primary Looks Like

  23-06-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky—After disastrous primary showcases in Wisconsin and Georgia, voting-rights advocates turned their eyes to Kentucky amid national concern that the state’s Tuesday primary could be the latest to offer a troubling portrait of voting during the coronavirus pandemic.In the days before the election, hallmarks of what made other elections in a time of COVID hellish were unfolding: In Jefferson County, only one polling site, albeit a large one, was open Tuesday. That mad
  
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• South Korean K-9 Thunder Artillery Guns Should Make North Korea Nervous

  23-06-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Korea designed the K9 to operate on the rugged mountains of the demilitarized zone with North Korea.
  
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• Powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocks Mexico; at least six dead

  23-06-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A hospital dedicated to caring for COVID-19 patients suffered enough damage that it will likely have to be evacuated, Oaxaca's governor said.
  
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• Powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocks Mexico, at least four people dead

  23-06-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In Mexico, a powerful 7.4- magnitude earthquake near Huatulco in the Pacific coast of Oaxaca has left at least four people dead.
  
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• Powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocks Mexico, at least five dead

  23-06-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In Mexico, a powerful 7.4- magnitude earthquake near Huatulco in the Pacific coast of Oaxaca has left at least five people dead.
  
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• A San Francisco zoo thinks a 50-pound mountain lion that ran loose through the city killed 2 of its wallaroos and a kangaroo

  23-06-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  San Francisco police said the mountain lion was captured safely, miles from the zoo, and was found beneath some trees near an apartment building.
  
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• Suspect in Atlanta Wendy's fire arrested

  23-06-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Natalie White is being charged with first degree arson.
  
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• Top US health official Fauci warns of 'disturbing' new US surge

  23-06-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They also told US lawmakers that they had never been asked to slow testing for coronavirus.
  
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• The $19,200 Yoho camper can be mounted on a pickup truck and sleep up to four people — see inside

  23-06-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yoho's interior includes a kitchenette-like area, a bed, and a dinette that can convert into another sleeping space.
  
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• Officers clear protesters from outside the White House

  23-06-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officers cleared protesters from outside of the White House as they tried to declare a new autonomous space in Washington D.C.
  
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• Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ discrimination points to faith leaders' divide over gay rights

  23-06-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Religious leaders in the U.S. are divided by a landmark Supreme Court ruling protecting LGBTQ civil rights in the workplace.
  
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• Trump Brings on Charles Harder to Block Niece’s Tell-All Book

  23-06-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump family is wasting no time taking legal action against the president’s niece in an effort to halt publication of her soon-to-be-released book, and they’ve turned to the powerful celebrity lawyer Charles Harder to do it, The Daily Beast has learned. Just days after Donald Trump said Mary Trump was “not allowed” to write such a tome, citing a “very powerful” NDA she had signed that the president claimed “covers everything,” the presiden
  
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• Did Donald Trump Miss His Chance At a Better Iran Deal?

  23-06-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bolton’s book explains why things went wrong. Can Biden avoid the same mistakes?
  
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• Dr Anthony Fauci says Donald Trump did not ask for coronavirus testing to be slowed down

  23-06-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America's top infectious diseases expert said he was not asked by Donald Trump to slow down coronavirus testing. Dr Anthony Fauci also told Congress he was seeing a "disturbing surge" of infections in a number of states including Texas, Florida and Arizona. He said one reason infections were rising in those states was an increase in community spread. "Right now the next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surges we are seeing in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and o
  
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• Trump's 'Kung flu' slur, pervasive scapegoating recall a brutal decades-old hate crime

  23-06-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AAPI history is built atop "fault lines of xenophobia," one expert said.
  
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• Murder of Asian American decades ago newly relevant in era of 'Kung flu,' experts say

  23-06-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AAPI history is built atop “faultlines of xenophobia," one expert said.
  
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• How risky daily activities are during the coronavirus pandemic, ranked from safest to most dangerous

  23-06-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Avoid big indoor parties, but there are low-risk ways to play, eat, and even date new people during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Pentagon’s top tech experts, Griffin and Porter, resign

  23-06-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Griffin and Lisa Porter will exit the building on July 10.
  
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• Prosecutor: Trump ally Roger Stone was 'treated differently'

  23-06-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal prosecutor is prepared to tell Congress on Wednesday that Roger Stone, a close ally of President Donald Trump, was given special treatment ahead of his sentencing because of his relationship with the president.Aaron Zelinsky, a career Justice Department prosecutor who was part of special counsel Robert Mueller's team and worked on the case against Stone, will say he was told by supervisors that political considerations influenced the decision to overrule the recommendation of the trial
  
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• Kentucky Senate primary pits establishment favorite against progressive insurgent

  23-06-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Primary candidate Charles Booker has gained traction in recent weeks over Amy McGrath.
  
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• Why U.S. And EU Officials Are Worried Putin Might Make Another Move in Ukraine

  23-06-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent comments about the legitimacy of Russia’s borders have rattled some U.S. allies
  
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• Ex-Roger Stone Prosecutor: DOJ Under ‘Heavy Pressure’ to Spare Trump’s Friend

  23-06-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the prosecutors who quit the Roger Stone case in disgust over interference from Attorney General Bill Barr will tell the House Judiciary Committee that the “highest levels of the Department” wanted to spare Stone, a friend of the president’s, years of prison time. “What I heard—repeatedly—was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President,” according to a statement from Aar
  
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• Top Los Angeles city official arrested on racketeering charges

  23-06-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Los Angeles city councilman was arrested on racketeering charges on Tuesday, with prosecutors saying he ran his office as a "money-making criminal enterprise," taking bribes from Chinese real estate developers and others in exchange for political influence.Jose Huizar, 51, a Democrat whose district includes downtown Los Angeles, was taken into custody without incident at his home in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, federal prosecutors said."Councilman Huizar violated the public trust to a stagg
  
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• Families separated by new Trump visa order frantic for answers

  23-06-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dixit and her husband are both Indian nationals while their children are U.S. citizens.A software developer with a temporary permit to work in the United States, Dixit knew that to return home she would have to go to the U.S. consulate in Mumbai to get a new visa stamped in her passport, a requirement for some visa holders when they travel abroad.
  
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• Georgia lawmakers pass hate crimes, more police protections

  23-06-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Georgia’s legislature on Tuesday passed hate crimes legislation deemed essential by business and many political leaders, sending the measure to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk.The price Republicans exacted for moving that legislation forward was simultaneous passage of a separate bill that would mandate penalties for crimes targeting police and other first responders.The action comes after Senate Republicans had added police as a protected class to the hate crimes legislation last week in com
  
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• Biden campaign commits to three debates, rejects Trump team's call for more as 'distraction'

  23-06-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden Campaign Manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said the Trump campaign "is desperate to change the subject from his failed leadership of the country."
  
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• Modi is standing aside as China seizes our land, says furious BJP politician from border region

  23-06-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of standing aside while China seizes swathes of territory in the border regions, in a rare and explosive attack from within his own party. Anger has been mounting in the nation of 1.4 billion since it was revealed that Chinese troops annexed 60 square kilometres of land in Ladakh in early May. At least 23 Indian soldiers were killed in brutal hand-to-hand fighting in the Galwan Valley as they attempted to uproot the ad-hoc Chinese settl
  
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• Sen. Braun reacts to Democrats threatening to block GOP police reform bill

  23-06-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun speaks out on 'The Daily Briefing.'
  
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• Prosecutor says he was pressured to cut Roger Stone 'a break' because of his ties to Trump

  23-06-2020 21:15 via politico.com
  
  Aaron Zelinsky will testify about alleged political interference at the Justice Department.
  
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• Baptists and Walmart criticize rebel-themed Mississippi flag

  23-06-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag drew opposition Tuesday from two big forces in the culturally conservative state: Southern Baptists and Walmart.Walmart said it will stop displaying the Mississippi flag while the state debates whether to change the design.The Mississippi Baptist Convention said lawmakers have a moral obligation to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag because many people are “hurt and shamed” by it.
  
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• More than half of war crimes court's members back tribunal

  23-06-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than half of the member states of the International Criminal Court voiced their support for the institution in a strongly worded statement issued Tuesday in response to the Trump administration’s decision to authorize sanctions against court staff.The 67 nations, including such U.S. allies as Australia, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, said in the joint statement that they were reconfirming “our unwavering support for the Court as an independent and impartial judicial ins
  
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• 'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy

  23-06-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Laser labs that detect ripples in space-time may have witnessed a new class of cosmic object.
  
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• The Air Force Is Getting a Replacement for Its Cold War-Era Pistols

  23-06-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Air Force recently announced it will soon start fielding 125,000 of the Army's new Modular Handgun Systems.
  
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• Segway, popular with police but not the public, hits brakes

  23-06-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Segway, which boldly claimed its two-wheeled personal transporter would revolutionize the way people get around, is ending production of its namesake vehicle.The Segway PT, popular with tourists and police officers but perhaps better known for its high-profile crashes, will be retired on July 15, the company said in a statement.“Within its first decade, the Segway PT became a staple in security and law enforcement, viewed as an effective and efficient personal vehicle,” said Judy Cai
  
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• EU May Bar American Travelers as It Reopens Borders, Citing Failures on Virus

  23-06-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS -- European Union countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the scourge, according to draft lists of acceptable travelers seen by The New York Times.That prospect, which would lump American visitors in with Russians and Brazilians as unwelcome, is a stinging blow to American prestige in the world and a repudiation of President
  
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• Fauci ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ Coronavirus Vaccine Will Be Available to Public by 2021

  23-06-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor for the Trump administration's coronavirus task force, said Tuesday that he is "cautiously optimistic" that a vaccine for the coronavirus will be available to the American public by the end of the year or early 2021."The hallmark of all really defining responses that we have to virus diseases, if you look at the history of viral diseases, it is generally vaccines that put the nail in the coffin of these types," Fauci said during testimony to the House Ene
  
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• Trump campaign names Hogan Gidley as new press secretary

  23-06-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gidley is currently the White House principal deputy press secretary.
  
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• How Xi Jinping is Ruining China's Dream of a Century of Dominance

  23-06-2020 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Xi's agressiveness is backfiring and is reminiscent of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
  
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• DeSantis: Florida seeing 'explosion' of Covid-19 cases in young people

  23-06-2020 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday the state is seeing a 'real explosion' in new coronavirus cases among younger demographics.
  
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• Raw Video: Mayor de Blasio announces new parking rules

  23-06-2020 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia announced Tuesday the end of twice-weekly street cleanings, the most dramatic reform to Alternate Side Parking in decades.
  
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• Wife of Canadian detained in China speaks out

  23-06-2020 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Kovrig, 48, who was arrested by Chinese authorities in December 2018, was formally charged last week with espionage.Kovrig's wife, Vina Nadjibulla, who lives in Toronto, has been fighting for his release since his arrest but went public this week for the first time."The situation keeps getting more and more dire for Michael," she said in an interview with Reuters.
  
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• Venezuela's Zulia state emerges as coronavirus hot spot

  23-06-2020 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The government of President Nicolas Maduro has identified Zulia as an epicenter of the pandemic, with official statistics showing 590 cases and 10 deaths in the sweltering border state that shares a frontier with neighboring Colombia."There are more deaths from coronavirus than the regime is announcing," said Juan Pablo Guanipa, an opposition legislator who represents the state of Zulia.Venezuela's information ministry and the Zulia government did not reply to requests for comment for this story
  
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• Trump slams protesters at Phoenix rally, visits border wall in Arizona

  23-06-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump sought to turn nationwide protests to his political advantage in a campaign appearance in the election swing state of Arizona on Tuesday, vowing to prevent "the left-wing mob" from pushing the United States into chaos.Trump, whose first rally of the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, drew fewer supporters than expected and was seen as exposing weaknesses in his campaign, pushed a law-and-order theme in Phoenix before a cheering audience of several-th
  
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• EU countries may bar U.S. travelers because of coronavirus failures: NY Times

  23-06-2020 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  European Union countries eager to revive their economies are prepared to bar entry to Americans because the United States has failed to control the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported from Brussels on Tuesday, citing draft lists of acceptable travelers.The United States, which has the most coronavirus cases in the world and is experiencing a surge in new infections, would be in the same category as No.2 hotspot Brazil and Russia, according to the Times, citing the proposal.An EU di
  
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• Who will face Mitch McConnell? 3-way Kentucky Democratic primary comes to a head Tuesday

  23-06-2020 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They all have the same goal: to persuade Kentucky Democrats they're the one who can dethrone Mitch McConnell and end his 36-year Senate career.
  
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• Trump scores win on fast-track deportation expansion

  23-06-2020 20:05 via politico.com
  
  D.C. Circuit rules that injunction against policy was erroneous
  
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• 450 billion locusts have been killed this year, but devastating swarms still ravage Africa, India and the Middle East

  23-06-2020 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kenya is facing its worst locust infestation in 70 years. India, Ethiopia, and Somalia are also beset by near-biblical plagues.
  
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• Lawsuit: Chicago Police using virus to deny suspects' rights

  23-06-2020 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges the Chicago Police Department has used the coronavirus pandemic and recent protests as “cover” to deny criminal suspects their legal right to speak with attorneys.The lawsuit filed by the Cook County Public Defender's Office and activists from Black Lives Matter Chicago and other groups says police often refuse to tell attorneys where their clients are being held and frequently violate a state law allowing suspects to contact attorneys within an hour a
  
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