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• Search continues for 3-year-old girl in KCK

  10-07-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in Kansas City, Kansas, continue their search for 3-year-old Olivia Ann Jansen. Police said the girl was reported missing Friday morning by her father.
  
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• Judge tosses Trump rule on billing for abortion coverage

  10-07-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge in Baltimore on Friday struck down a Trump administration rule that abortion rights advocates called a maneuver to restrict access but officials defended as merely following the law.The decision by U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake affects women covered under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, not the majority with workplace insurance.The ruling hinged on the arcane question of whether a congressional requirement that insurers collect a “separate payment” for abo
  
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• Singapore ruling party's support slips in pandemic poll

  10-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Singapore's long-ruling party retained power Saturday but its support fell sharply, while the opposition made gains, in a general election held under the shadow of a coronavirus outbreak.The affluent financial hub has seen large virus outbreaks in dormitories housing low-paid foreign workers, but with new infections slowing and authorities easing a partial lockdown the government pushed ahead with the poll.The People's Action Party (PAP), which has ruled Singapore for six decades, was always ass
  
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• Brazilian environmentalist Sirkis killed in car crash

  10-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Environmentalist Alfredo Sirkis, a founder of Brazil's Green Party and a tireless campaigner for policies to curb climate change, died on Friday in a car crash, television network TV Globo said.Sirkis, 69, was killed when the car he was driving hit a post on a highway outside his hometown Rio de Janeiro, broadcaster TV Globo reported, citing firemen at the crash.A former leftist guerrilla, Sirkis was involved in the kidnapping of foreign diplomats to secure the release of political prisoners dur
  
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• A California waitress said she stopped a man's racist tirade against an Asian family because she didn't 'have time for this'

  10-07-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man in the video has been identified as Michael Lofthouse, the CEO of a tech firm, and he apologized for his behavior in the video.
  
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• UN encouraged experts may get to visit oil tanker off Yemen

  10-07-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations said Friday it is encouraged that a U.N. team may be able to visit an oil tanker loaded with 1.1 million barrels of crude oil that is moored off the coast of Yemen, posing a serious risk to Red Sea marine life, desalination plants and shipping.Houthi rebels, who control the area where the ship is moored, have denied U.N. inspectors access to the vessel.
  
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• Mali protesters occupy national broadcaster

  10-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police have fired shots to disperse protesters calling for President Keita to stand down.
  
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• Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says ride-hailing will make up only 50% of the company's business moving forward as food delivery growth surges

  10-07-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Our delivery business is growing at rates that, frankly, I didn't think was possible, and we have doubled up on that," Khosrowshahi told NDTV.
  
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• Prosecutor whose star has risen under Trump named Brooklyn-based acting U.S. Attorney

  10-07-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Friday named Seth DuCharme, a prosecutor who has risen rapidly in the Justice Department under the Trump administration, as acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.DuCharme, who for the last six months has been principal associate deputy attorney general in Washington, is swapping roles with Richard Donoghue, the current U.S. Attorney for the Brooklyn-based Eastern District.The Justice Department earlier this month announced shorturl.at/inq
  
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• 'This is not the summer for a spontaneous road trip': The case for canceling your vacation

  10-07-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vacationing during a pandemic is an act of pure selfishness. It doesn't just endanger your life. It could spread COVID-19 and prolong the situation.
  
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• Family gathering infects 41 people with the coronavirus, NC health official says

  10-07-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Family members reportedly went to work and the beach before they started showing symptoms.
  
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• Russian accused of harassing Black family in Oregon was ordered deported 10 years ago

  10-07-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man was ordered deported in June 2010.
  
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• Amazon told employees to delete TikTok from their phones — then walked back the policy and said it was an 'error'

  10-07-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amazon said the email was sent to some employees in error and that employees don't have to delete TikTok.
  
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• Jared Kushner said the US would be 'really rocking again' by July. 7 states are shutting back down, and new COVID-19 cases have set records 6 times in July's first 10 days.

  10-07-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In Kushner's confident Fox & Friends appearance back in April, he also proclaimed the US was "on the other side of the medical aspect" of the virus.
  
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• Dukakis: We've got to change this government, get Trump out of the White House

  10-07-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis on Joe Biden's campaign and his chances at winning the presidency.
  
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• HHS allocates Gilead's COVID-19 drug remdesivir to four hardest hit states

  10-07-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The remdesivir is being distributed to Texas, Florida, California and Arizona on Friday and Monday, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/investigation-MCM/Pages/commercial-allocation-table.aspx.Remdesivir is in high demand as one of the only treatments so far shown to alter the course of COVID-19.After the intravenously administered medicine helped shorten hospital recovery times in a clinical trial, it won emergen
  
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• Police shut down restaurant seating blocking bike lanes in San Diego

  10-07-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With restaurant dining restricted to outdoor only, businesses in San Diego County are doing anything they can to keep their doors open — but some have been caught breaking the rules.
  
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• In Hong Kong Security Law, China Asserts Legal Jurisdiction over the Entire World

  10-07-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Chinese Communist Party’s new security law has criminalized any actions it deems to be subversion, secession, terrorism, and collusion with foreign entities in Hong Kong. The law spells an abrupt end to the political freedoms that Hong Kongers used to enjoy. Authorities Friday raided the offices of a research and polling institute associated with the pro-democracy camp just ahead of primaries in which it will choose its candidates for Legislative Council elections, and there’s ce
  
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• Pandemic exposes scientific rift over proving when germs are airborne

  10-07-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century - to the very origins of germ theory.The Geneva-based World Health Organization acknowledged this week that the novel coronavirus can spread through tiny droplets floating in the air, a nod to more than 200 experts in aerosol science who publicly complained that the U.N. agency had failed to warn the public about this risk."WHO's slow motion on this issue is unfortuna
  
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• Army: Independent probe coming after Fort Hood soldier death

  10-07-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Army officials announced Friday they will begin an independent review of the command climate at Fort Hood following calls from members of Congress and community activists for a more thorough investigation into the killing of a soldier from the Texas base.Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy said he was directing the review and that it will be conducted by an independent panel of congressional representatives selected in collaboration with League of United Latin American Citizens.Vanessa G
  
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• Linda Stoltzfoos: FBI offers $10,000 reward in search for missing Amish teenager in Pennsylvania

  10-07-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FBI is assisting local authorities in a search for a missing Amish teenager from Pennsylvania.The agency is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading regarding the location of Linda Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish teen who disappeared after a church service in East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania on 21 June.
  
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• Author Christopher Buckley: 'Everything Trump touches dies'

  10-07-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The son of conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Christopher Buckley’s new novel “Make Russia Great Again” is a rollicking satire of Donald Trump’s White House.
  
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• Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue features first transgender model

  10-07-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This isn't the first time the 23-year-old Brazilian beauty has broken barriers for trans models.
  
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• Serbia's Vucic blames opponents for orchestrating violent protests

  10-07-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Earlier in the day, Vucic said efforts by Germany and France to restart talks aimed at mending ties between Belgrade and Pristina were already paying off."If he gives up Kosovo, Vucic is digging a grave for Serbia," said Milan, 22, a protester clad in a black shirt and face mask.In Paris, Vucic accused his political opponents of orchestrating the protests and said that if they continue it would be difficult to contain the coronavirus epidemic.
  
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• Rep. McCarthy: There is a real chance GOP and Democrats can find common ground on police reofrm

  10-07-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy discusses efforts for a bipartisan police reform bill.
  
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• Mexico asks Canada to arrest, extradite ex-investigator

  10-07-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico is to seek the arrest and extradition from Canada of the former chief investigator in the murky disappearance of 43 students in 2014, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Friday.Tomas Zeron, who was head of the Criminal Investigation Agency, is in Canada and work is underway to extradite him, the minister said."There is going to be no impunity, part of our function at the ministry of foreign affairs is to guarantee that, when there are cases of this nature, extradition occurs," Ebrard sai
  
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• Police identify bodies found in suitcases on Seattle beach by teens recording TikTok

  10-07-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The bodies were found by a group of teenagers who were led to the beach by the Randonautic app.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell argues for $5 million bail, saying she's 'not Jeffrey Epstein'

  10-07-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK - Ghislaine Maxwell argued for $5 million bail Friday, arguing that she had wrongly replaced Jeffrey Epstein in the public eye after the multimillionaire hanged himself last year. "Epstein died in federal custody, and the media focus quickly shifted to our client - wrongly trying to substitute her for Epstein - even though she'd had no contact with Epstein for more than a decade, had ...
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell requests bail due to 'significant' coronavirus risk

  10-07-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The British socialite denies grooming underage girls for the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Turkey turns Hagia Sophia back into a mosque

  10-07-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that the Hagia Sophia, one of the architectural wonders of the world, would be reopened for Muslim worship as a mosque, sparking fury in the Christian community and neighbouring Greece.In an address to the nation, Erdogan said the first Muslim prayers at the Hagia Sophia would be performed on July 24."God willing, we will perform Friday prayers all together on July 24 and reopen Hagia Sophia to worshipping," he said, assuring that it would
  
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• ‘Tell us why.’ Restaurants protest Miami-Dade mayor’s latest dining room shutdown

  10-07-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of independent Miami restaurant owners closed their shops and showed up downtown Friday to protest the recent Miami-Dade County order that shut their restaurant dining rooms.
  
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• Last call: Las Vegas to shut bars down again Friday night to thwart coronavirus spike

  10-07-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Las Vegas bars, including restaurant bars, will shut down again on Friday night, just five weeks after The Strip reopened to visitors.
  
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• Dr. Anthony Fauci is still talking. But is the president listening?

  10-07-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Improbably, Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci have managed to get along for months, brought together to fight the coronavirus.
  
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• Pelosi on protesters tearing down statues: People will do what they do

  10-07-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reaction from former Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein and National Diversity Coalition for Trump executive director Bruce Levell.
  
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• The world's largest passenger plane was hollowed out to carry freight in the COVID-19 airlift. Take a look inside the first Airbus A380 cargo plane.

  10-07-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Airbus A380 operated by charter airline Hi Fly had its seats taken out to store boxes of medical freight. Take a look inside the now-empty plane.
  
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• Venezuela oil minister El Aissami tests positive for COVID-19

  10-07-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan oil minister Tareck El Aissami has tested positive for COVID-19, he said on Twitter on Friday, a day after the leader of the socialist party, Diosdado Cabello, tested positive for the virus as well.Omar Prieto, governor of western Zulia state, has also tested positive for the virus.Venezuela has reported 8,010 cases of the novel coronavirus so far, far fewer than other Latin American neighbors like Brazil, but its cases have risen at a brisker pace in recent weeks.
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen sent back to upstate NY prison after questioning gag order

  10-07-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cohen, 53, had attended a meeting with probation officers in Manhattan on Thursday when he was presented with a list of conditions for home confinement, including that he not engage with news media outlets, according to his lawyer, Jeffrey Levine.After questioning it, Cohen was shackled, sent to a federal jail in Manhattan and then transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, about 70 miles (110 km) northwest of New York City, where Levine said he is now being held under qua
  
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• Want to know why we need the police? The battle in Seattle is the reason | Opinion

  10-07-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Let’s get rid of cops, defund them, at least make them less active, deplete their ranks and agree they suffer from systemic racism bred into their modes of behavior, always acting as if to be Black is to be guilty.
  
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• HCSO sergeant arrested for aggravated assault with deadly weapon

  10-07-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An HCSO sergeant is accused of pointing his gun at a man who was lying in a prone position and then threatening to "splatter" the man's brain.
  
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• Ex-Trump fixer Cohen transferred from NYC jail to Otisville

  10-07-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was transferred to the same federal lockup in Otisville where he was serving time for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance crimes before the coronavirus pandemic prompted his early release, his attorney said Friday.The move late Thursday came hours after federal authorities said Cohen refused to accept the conditions of his home confinement, specifically that he submit to wearing an ankle monitor.Cohen attorney
  
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• Ex-Trump fixer Cohen returned to prison where sentence began

  10-07-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was transferred to the same federal lockup in Otisville where he was serving time for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance crimes before the coronavirus pandemic prompted his early release, his attorney said Friday.The move late Thursday came hours after federal authorities said Cohen refused to accept the conditions of his home confinement, specifically that he submit to wearing an ankle monitor.Cohen attorney
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell’s Lawyers Claim She Was Never in Hiding, Hadn’t Seen Epstein for a Decade

  10-07-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Jeffrey Epstein confidant accused of helping him sexually abuse underaged girls, had not been hiding from prosecutors since the pedophile billionaire’s jailhouse suicide in August—but from an “unrelenting and intrusive media,” her lawyers claimed in a Friday memo. “She did not flee, but rather left the public eye, for the entirely understandable purpose of protecting herself and those close to her from the crush of media and onli
  
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• Can schools force students to wear masks? Illinois lawsuit challenges COVID-19 policy

  10-07-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The lawsuit says a school’s mask requirement will cause a mother and child to “suffer irreparable damage.”
  
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• Dr Fauci last briefed Trump two months ago, as the top expert admits he has reputation to not ‘sugar-coat’ information

  10-07-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, has not briefed President Donald Trump in the past two months about the coronavirus pandemic, as cases surge in parts of the US.Early on in the pandemic, the president would meet with Dr Fauci and the White House Coronavirus Task Force multiple times per week.
  
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• Over 40 Florida hospitals max out ICU capacity as Covid-19 cases surge across US

  10-07-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Coronavirus infections rising in 41 states, including less densely populated areasCoronavirus cases are rising across the US, some regional hospitals are filling up and some of America’s most populous places are seeing record deaths as the pandemic surges.At the same time, as some states reverse reopening plans, public health interventions such as encouraging people to wear public face coverings and closing schools have become increasingly politicized and divisive.Sunbelt states such as Ar
  
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• Supreme Court ruling on Oklahoma tribal land raises questions for oil industry

  10-07-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing about half of Oklahoma as Native American reservation land has implications for oil and gas development in the state, raising complex regulatory and tax questions that could take years to settle, according to Oklahoma attorneys.The court on Thursday overturned an Oklahoma tribe member’s rape conviction because the location where the crime was committed should have been considered reservation land and therefore outside the reach of state criminal la
  
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• Trump scrubs New Hampshire rally as campaign struggles to reboot

  10-07-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump's reelection campaign, once expected to be a juggernaut, is adrift as it faces unexpected challenges unique to this extraordinary election year.
  
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• Anti-maskers are posting selfies wearing useless netted masks to appear compliant with rules they don't agree with

  10-07-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anti-maskers are wearing mesh masks as a literal loophole to requirements they say infringe on their rights. The results could be deadly.
  
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• Lawyer: Over 150 Minneapolis officers seeking disability

  10-07-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 150 Minneapolis police officers are filing work-related disability claims after the death of George Floyd and ensuing unrest, with about three-quarters citing post-traumatic stress disorder as the reason for their planned departures, according to an attorney representing the officers.While Floyd’s death in May and the unrest that followed are not the direct cause of many of the disability requests, attorney Ron Meuser said, those events and what Meuser called a lack of support fr
  
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• Court's religious employer ruling could weaken LGBTQ protections

  10-07-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Critics say the ruling, which broadens the “ministerial exception” in employment nondiscrimination law, could open a Pandora’s box of workplace discrimination.
  
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