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• Trump jokes that he helped design US Navy's newest 'yacht with missiles'

  26-06-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "That's a terrible-looking ship, let's make it beautiful. It'll cost you the same, and maybe less," Trump joked.
  
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• Colorado police officers involved in death of Elijah McClain taken off the streets

  26-06-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The deadly confrontation in the Denver suburb of Aurora is getting renewed scrutiny.
  
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• A doctor tested her oxygen levels and heart rate while wearing face masks to show they don't make it hard to breathe

  26-06-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A doctor tested her oxygen levels and heart rate while wearing four different masks to debunk myths about their effects on breathing.
  
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• For three weeks, a Texas county had zero coronavirus cases. Then the governor intervened.

  26-06-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "They took the teeth away from us to be able to enforce anything," the city manager of the county's largest city says.
  
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• Europe will bar Americans traveling from the US as the coronavirus pandemic spirals out of control in the states

  26-06-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The European Union will bar American visitors because of the spread of the coronavirus in the US. Dozens of other nations are also banned.
  
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• Democrats renew health care attacks on GOP as virus builds

  26-06-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats are intensifying their attacks on President Donald Trump and his Republican allies over health care, hoping that an issue that helped lift the party during the 2018 midterms will prove even more resonant as the White House seeks to repeal the Affordable Care Act during a public health crisis.Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, told an audience in the swing state of Pennsylvania this week that efforts to undermine the Obama-era health care law were “cruel&r
  
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• Confederate symbol on Mississippi flag sparks strong debate

  26-06-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Emotions are running high as Mississippi legislators consider the future of the last state flag in the U.S. that includes the Confederate battle emblem.Legislators could adopt a new Mississippi flag without Confederate imagery.The battle emblem — a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars — has been in the upper-left corner of the Mississippi flag since 1894.
  
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• UK ditches quarantine for arrivals from low COVID-19 risk countries

  26-06-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain will ditch a 14-day quarantine period for people arriving from countries it deems to be lower risk for COVID-19 , the government said on Friday.Official travel advice against all but essential travel outside Britain will also be eased for some countries and regions.The relaxations are the latest taken by the government to unwind emergency measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19, as ministers look to limit the economic damage caused by the virus.
  
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• Russia reportedly paid Taliban-linked militants bounty money to kill American troops

  26-06-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian officials said they were not aware of the allegations that the country's military offered bounties to kill US troops.
  
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• Polls deliver more bad news for Trump

  26-06-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If the latest national and state polls are correct, President Trump’s bid for a second term faces serious headwinds in the four months until the election.
  
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• Pence says the US has 'flattened the curve,' but 14 charts shown by his White House Coronavirus Task Force show why that's false

  26-06-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The truth is we did slow the spread. We flattened the curve," Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday. That's false. These charts show why.
  
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• EU holds off decision on borders, Americans set to be excluded

  26-06-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final "safe list" of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July, with the United States, Brazil and Russia set to be excluded.Ambassadors from the 27 EU members convened from Friday afternoon to establish criteria for granting quarantine-free access from next Wednesday.The list did not include the United States, Brazil or Russia, one diplomat said.
  
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• Justice Department Warns Of Fraudulent Face Mask 'Exempt' Cards

  26-06-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice is warning residents about fraudulent cards, postings and flyers that claim exemption from wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Katie Johnston reports.
  
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• The Coronavirus Task Force Reemerges After 2 Months, With Bad News and No President in Sight

  26-06-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the White House Coronavirus Task Force held its first televised press conference in two months, Trump was notably absent.
  
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• Arizona's attorney general sent a megachurch that hosted Trump a cease and desist letter over claims its air system could kill the coronavirus

  26-06-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued cease and desist letters to Phoenix's Dream City Church and Clean Air EXP on Friday.
  
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• Points of Progress: Legal protections for LGBTQ employees, and more

  26-06-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In good news this week: The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed legal protections for LGBTQ employees, and more.
  
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• The Army Is About to Get its First Female Green Beret

  26-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A female soldier is scheduled to graduate from the Special Forces Qualification Course in July and become the first woman to join the Green Berets.
  
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• Opinion: Barr backs up Trump's scare talk about voting by mail

  26-06-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The attorney general — again — is acting as the president's enabler.
  
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• Coronavirus task force briefs — but not at White House

  26-06-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There was no presidential appearance and no White House backdrop Friday when the government's coronavirus task force briefed the public for the first time since April — in keeping with an administration effort to show it is paying attention to the latest spike in cases but is not on a wartime footing that should keep the country from reopening the economy.The briefing at the Department of Health and Human Services was held as the number of confirmed new coronavirus infections per day in th
  
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• Calls to 'arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor' have been turned into an online meme that some say has gone too far

  26-06-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor" has become a call for justice, but some are calling for people to stop turning her death into a meme.
  
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• Fauci warns of 'serious problem' as Texas, Florida halt reopening

  26-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Top government expert Anthony Fauci warned Friday the United States is facing a "serious problem" from a resurgent coronavirus, as Texas and Florida ordered bars to stop serving alcohol amid a record-breaking spike in their COVID-19 cases.With close to 125,000 deaths, the United States is by far the hardest-hit country in the world.It never fully emerged from its first wave, and figures suggest the past week has seen the most new cases reported since the start of the pandemic, mainly driven by a
  
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• Russia offered Afghan militants bounties to kill U.S. troops: NY Times

  26-06-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. intelligence has concluded that the Russian militaryoffered bounties to Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan to kill American troops and other coalition forces, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing officials briefed on the matter.A Russian military intelligence unit linked to assassination attempts in Europe had offered rewards for successful attacks last year, according to the newspaper.It said Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are bel
  
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• John Bolton says he'd be happy to testify in Canada on Huawei exec’s extradition case

  26-06-2020 22:34 via politico.com
  
  Bolton made the remarks during a radio interview Friday.
  
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• Supreme Court rebuffs Texas vote-by-mail expansion

  26-06-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The justices let stand the ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that halted a federal judge's earlier decision to permit any voter concerned about the threat of coronavirus infection to cast a ballot by mail.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, fought the expansion of mail-in voting.There were no noted dissents on the high court, although liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a statement saying she hopes the 5th Circuit issues a final decision on the lega
  
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• The list of who's most at risk for severe cases of COVID-19 just got longer, CDC says

  26-06-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The older you are, the greater your risk for a severe case of COVID-19, the CDC says as it expands its list of risky underlying health conditions.
  
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• See This Picture? Meet Israel’s New Starliner Drone.

  26-06-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here is what we can tell you about it, at the moment.
  
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• Delta and United are resuming flights to China for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak began

  26-06-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Delta and United announced their first flights to China since the coronavirus pandemic began. They last flew to China on February 6.
  
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• Governor Asks California County To Reimpose Stay-At-Home Order

  26-06-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he wants an agricultural Southern California county to reimpose stay-home orders amid a surge in positive coronavirus tests there and through much of the state.
  
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• Canada's treatment of some farm workers a 'national disgrace': minister

  26-06-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The treatment of migrant workers in Canada by some farmers is disgraceful and the federal government is seeking to fix the problem, the country's health minister told a parliamentary committee on Friday, as farms battle COVID-19 outbreaks among their employees.Outbreaks of coronavirus infections have killed three people and infected hundreds more on farms in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, in recent weeks.Health Minister Patty Hajdu said she had heard stories about the treatment of mig
  
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• We Can’t Let the Outrage Mob Win

  26-06-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.”I’ve been thinking a lot about George Orwell’s chilling premonition over the past several weeks, as an ever-growing number of statues, books, movies, television shows, and even food brands have b
  
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• The 10 most popular face masks people can't stop buying

  26-06-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  To help the spread of the coronavirus, our readers have bought stylish face masks from retailers like Anthropologie, Etsy, Casetify , and more.
  
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• Coronavirus: Florida breaks case record confirming almost 9,000 in one day

  26-06-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida has reported a record breaking increase in coronavirus cases in the state, forcing the reimplementation of lockdown measures.The state reported 8,942 new covid-19 cases on Friday, a drastic increase from its previous record of 5,511 on Wednesday, according to a report by The Washington Post.
  
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• 170 Atlanta officers have called out sick since cops charged in Rayshard Brooks case

  26-06-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr calls for accountability, respect for police officers.
  
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• Minneapolis City Council Approves Proposal to Disband Police

  26-06-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a radical proposal to change the city charter that would allow the police department to be dismantled, following mass public criticism of law enforcement over the killing of George Floyd.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi misspeaks, says police reform bill is worthy of ‘George Kirby’s’ name

  26-06-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., misspoke saying the police reform bill is worthy of ‘George Kirby’s’ name.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Smears Tim Scott

  26-06-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It takes a lot in the year 2020 for a politician to say something that registers as genuinely outrageous, but House speaker Nancy Pelosi accomplished that feat earlier this week when she smeared Tim Scott of South Carolina and his fellow Senate Republicans as “trying to get away with . . . the murder of George Floyd” with Scott’s police-reform bill.“We're saying no chokeholds,” Pelosi said in a CBS Radio interview on Tuesday. “They’re not sayin
  
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• Trump cancels weekend trip to Bedminster

  26-06-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House had said that the president would not comply with New Jersey's quarantine policy during a planned visit this weekend.
  
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• Trump's spending for border wall rejected by U.S. appeals court

  26-06-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a pair of 2-1 decisions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the White House lacked constitutional authority for the transfer, noting that Congress had denied the funding and finding no "unforeseen military requirement" to justify it.The court also said California and New Mexico, which share a border with Mexico and were among 20 states suing the government, had legal standing to sue.Chief Judge Sidney Thomas said "the Executive Branch's failure to show, in concrete terms, that the pub
  
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• Trump signs order prioritizing job skills over college degree in government hiring

  26-06-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump is overhauling federal hiring practices so that government can hire workers based on talent instead of educational level.
  
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• Pence hails 'remarkable progress' on COVID-19 as new cases surge in many states

  26-06-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence hailed “remarkable progress” toward returning the nation to normalcy at the first public briefing of the coronavirus task force in nearly two months on Friday, a day the U.S. saw a new high for coronavirus cases recorded.
  
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• Trump signs 'strong' executive order to protect monuments

  26-06-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to protect monuments, memorials and statues facing new scrutiny amid fresh debate over the nation's racist beginnings.Trump had promised to take action earlier this week after police thwarted an attempt by protesters to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson in a park across from the White House.The order calls on the attorney general to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law any person or group that destroys or vandalizes a monument, mem
  
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• Israeli military says 2 Gaza rockets hit southern Israel

  26-06-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Israeli military said Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into southern Israel late Friday, shattering months of near-total calm.In response, Israeli aircraft attacked two military facilities for Hamas, the Islamic group ruling Gaza.There were no reports of injuries in either incident and no Palestinian militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the rocket attack.
  
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• White couple calls Mexican American 'criminal,' blocks him from his building

  26-06-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Barajas, 28, said he started recording the incident after a white man got aggressive and falsely called him a "criminal."
  
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• The Trump administration told Facebook and Twitter to remove posts that call for tearing down statues

  26-06-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has railed against protesters over the past month, and has repeatedly clashed with tech companies in the process.
  
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• Judge blocks 25% capacity rule for religious services in NY

  26-06-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Friday blocked New York state from enforcing coronavirus restrictions limiting indoor religious gatherings to 25% capacity when other types of gatherings are limited to 50%.Judge Gary Sharpe enjoined Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Letitia James from enforcing some of the capacity restrictions put in place by executive order to contain the spread of the virus.
  
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• Kosovo's Thaci accuses international justice of rewriting history

  26-06-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kosovo President Hashim Thaci on Friday accused international justice of "rewriting history" after he was charged with war crimes linked to the 1990s conflict with Serbia.Prosecutors at a special Kosovo court in The Hague on Wednesday indicted the former political leader of an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group, prompting him to cancel a planned trip to the US where he was due to discuss lingering tensions with Serbia.Thaci said on Facebook that he had landed in the Albanian capital Tirana and was
  
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• Biden Is Getting a Lot of Advice on His VP. Here's What Voters Think.

  26-06-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden appears to face limited political pressure from voters about whom to choose as his running mate, with no contender emerging as a clear favorite and the great majority of people saying that race should not be a factor in his decision, according to polling conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.Biden has pledged to select a woman as his nominee for vice president, and his advisers are vetting more than half a dozen people for the job. In recent weeks, amid ongoing demonstratio
  
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• Florida Smirked at New York's Virus Crisis. Now It Has Its Own.

  26-06-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In late April, as new coronavirus cases in Florida were steadily decreasing, Gov. Ron DeSantis began crowing how his state had tamed the pandemic.He credited his decision to impose a state-specific quarantine on New York, then the epicenter of the nation's outbreak. The move earned him praise in the White House and the ire of Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York.Months later, Cuomo has clearly not forgotten."You played politics with this virus and you lost," Cuomo said Thursday when asked in an intervi
  
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• Antibody test accuracy unclear; COVID-19 risks higher for pregnant women

  26-06-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Studies assessing the accuracy of COVID-19 antibody tests had major shortcomings, an analysis released on Thursday found, indicating that existing research does not prove the tests can confirm with certainty whether people have been infected with the novel coronavirus.Cochrane, a British-based journal that reviews research evidence, looked at 54 studies that sought to measure the reliability of the antibody blood tests.The analyzed studies looked at nearly 16,000 blood samples, 89% of which had
  
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• Trump is going full steam ahead with his Jacksonville GOP convention speech, but the city is a COVID-19 hot spot and locals don't want him there

  26-06-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The RNC and the GOP mayor of Jacksonville both expressed confidence they could pull off the event without a hitch, despite rising COVID-19 infections.
  
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