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• Florida teacher accused of knocking tooth out of 7-year-old

  06-02-2020 23:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  The first grade teacher is accused of violently shoving the boy's head into a wall, causing him to lose a front tooth and injure his lip.
  
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• Disney's new 'Star Wars' hotel will offer all-immersive experience

  06-02-2020 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  "Star Wars" fans, this one's for you.
  
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• 8 Trump-Ukraine questions that will outlive impeachment

  06-02-2020 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  Impeachment is over. President Donald Trump has been acquitted. One bruising chapter has ended, but another phase of the Ukraine affair is only now beginning.
  
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• 'Congratulations to those men:' How to fix the Oscars' best director problem

  06-02-2020 23:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  For the Oscars to continue to have any credibility, it must not only accommodate but deliberately arrange for inclusion across categories.
  
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• China's social media awash in anger after confusion about Li Wenliang's death caused by conflicting reports

  06-02-2020 23:43 via cnn.com
  
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• Pro-Trump groups flood social media with videos like this

  06-02-2020 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  A journalist did a deep dive into President Trump's reelection page and other pro-Trump groups on social media. He tells CNN's Tom Foreman he found a "sea of misinformation."
  
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• China is sending trucks to spray bleach on entire cities as the country struggles to contain the Wuhan coronavirus

  06-02-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Public health and infection control experts say spraying entire towns is "a little over the top," because coronaviruses don't live long on surfaces.
  
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• Thursday's Mini-Report, 2.6.20

  06-02-2020 23:30 via msnbc.com
  
  Today's edition of quick hits.
  
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• Jim Jordan picked to be top Republican on Judiciary panel

  06-02-2020 23:27 via politico.com
  
  The Ohio Republican has been one of Trump’s fiercest House defenders.
  
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• Wichita woman convicted of beheading ex-boyfriend's mother

  06-02-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors said Rachael Hilyard cut off the head of 63-year-old Micki Davis using two steak knives on April 9, 2017.Davis had gone to Hilyard's home with her 9-year-old grandson to collect her son's belongings, at Hilyard's insistence.Hilyard's lawyer acknowledged his client killed Davis but said it was not premeditated, which is required for a first-degree murder conviction, The Wichita Eagle reported.
  
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• Elizabeth Smart says she was sexually assaulted on flight

  06-02-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Utah kidnapping and rape survivor Elizabeth Smart said Thursday that she was sexually assaulted on an airplane last year while she was sleeping.Smart, now a 32-year-old mother of three, referenced her kidnapping from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 in describing her reaction to the attack to “CBS News This Morning.” She said she was asleep during a flight when the man next to her began rubbing her inner thigh with his hand.Smart later reported the attack to authorities and said she w
  
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• Tourism Industry Pleads Mexico’s AMLO: Please Don’t Cancel Long Weekends

  06-02-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That’s what Mexico’s tourism industry is telling President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador after he proposed canceling long weekends.AMLO, as the president is known, wants holidays to be celebrated on the actual day that they happened to boost their historical significance. For many years now, Mexico has moved holidays that fall in the middle of the week to either Monday or Friday so people can enjoy a long weekend.Getting rid o
  
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• Chinese officials are only letting people leave their homes every 2 days and have forbidden weddings and funerals

  06-02-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In four cities that are home to more than 30 million people, each household is given a so-called passport. It permits one person to leave every two days.
  
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• The White House is asking Republicans to bash Mitt Romney. Liz Cheney is defending him.

  06-02-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump just won't let that one little snub go.On Wednesday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) blocked Trump from a unified Republican acquittal in his impeachment trial. Trump has since taken aim at his one defector, first attacking him without name in Thursday morning's National Prayer Breakfast and later sending a set of anti-Romney talking points to his Republican caucus.While he didn't exactly say he was talking about Romney, Trump did say Thursday that "I don't like people who use their fa
  
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• How to cook asparagus like a pro

  06-02-2020 23:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  They can be steamed, boiled, stir-fried, roasted, baked, grilled, broiled — pretty much any way you can cook something, you can cook asparagus.
  
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• Global panic deepens over China virus as whistleblower doctor dies

  06-02-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chinese doctor, among the first to raise the alert about China's new coronavirus, himself died from the pathogen on Friday,emphasizing the depth of a worsening crisis that has killed more than 560 people.Global panic also spread, with thousands trapped on quarantined cruise ships.Ophthalmologist Li Wenliang died at 2:58 am, Wuhan Central Hospital said in a post on its verified account on Chinese social media platform Weibo.
  
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• Bernie Sanders declares 'decisive victory' in Iowa caucuses, rips results reporting 'screw-up'

  06-02-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We are holding a press conference that should have occurred three nights ago in Des Moines, but for the inability of the Iowa Democratic Party to count votes in a timely fashion," Sanders said.
  
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• Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov denounces U.S. 'provocations' in Venezuela

  06-02-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday denounced U.S. foreign policy in Venezuela, criticizing U.S. "provocations" and attempts to create what he called a pretext for military intervention.Russia and the United States have repeatedly clashed over Venezuela, where Russian oil companies and military advisers are playing a key role in support of the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• US warns Venezuela of consequences if Guaido harmed

  06-02-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Thursday warned Venezuela's leftist regime of consequences if opposition leader Juan Guaido is not allowed to return safely from a visit to Washington."We hope that the regime makes the calculation, particularly after this trip, that the support for Guaido is strong and that the counter-reaction to any move against him would make it a mistake for the regime," said Elliott Abrams, the US pointman on Venezuela.Guaido, who is considered interim president by the United States an
  
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• Virginia lawmakers to debate assault weapon ban

  06-02-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic lawmakers in Virginia are set to try to advance legislation to ban assault weapons despite pushback from members of their own party.A state House committee is scheduled to take up legislation backed by Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday that would ban the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms, including popular AR-15 style rifles.Heated debates over guns have dominated this year's legislative session, as Virginia has become ground zero in the nation's raging debate over gun control and ma
  
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• Over 200 medical professionals in the South oppose bills targeting trans youth

  06-02-2020 23:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  A group of doctors and other health workers signed an open letter opposing state bills that "violate the rights and freedoms of transgender young people."
  
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• Israel strikes Iran-backed fighters in Syria, killing more than 20, monitoring group says

  06-02-2020 23:05 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Israel warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting Syrian army positions near the capital and Iran-backed fighters Thursday, killing 23, according to a monitoring group.
  
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• On Facebook, anti-vaxxers urged a mom not to give her son Tamiflu. He later died.

  06-02-2020 23:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Online groups that routinely traffic in anti-vaccination propaganda have become a resource for people seeking out a wide variety of medical information.
  
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• Police in Arizona are looking into doomsday mom Lori Vallow's connection to her late husband's life insurance policy

  06-02-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lori Vallow's children still haven't been found.
  
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• Bill De Blasio Says New York City Must Tackle Affordability Crisis

  06-02-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, decrying the affordability crisis facing the biggest U.S. city, proposed setting aside more apartments for the poorest, legalizing basement units and allowing renters to pay security deposits in monthly installments rather than one lump sum.In his seventh State of the City Address, de Blasio, a Democrat, said many fear the city they love is slipping away, and New York had to save itself from “the forces of greed” displacing residents and
  
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• Fox News Internal Document Bashes Pro-Trump Fox Regulars for Spreading ‘Disinformation’

  06-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News’ own research team has warned colleagues not to trust some of the network’s top commentators’ claims about Ukraine.An internal Fox News research briefing book obtained by The Daily Beast openly questions Fox News contributor John Solomon’s credibility, accusing him of playing an “indispensable role” in a Ukrainian “disinformation campaign.”The document also accuses frequent Fox News guest Rudy Giuliani of amplifying disinformation, as part
  
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• The worst part of Trump's vengeful, vulgar, fact-challenged acquittal 'celebration'

  06-02-2020 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  • 'All bulls***': Read Trump's full remarks
  • Analysis: Romney's image irrevocably changed
  
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• Forty-three percent of Americans back Trump acquittal, 41 percent opposed: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  06-02-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans are evenly split, mostly along party lines, over the U.S. Senate's acquittal of President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial, even though more respondents than not think he probably did something wrong, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday. The national opinion poll found that 43% of U.S. adults supported the Republican-led Senate's decision on Wednesday to keep Trump in office in a case stemming from his dealings with Ukraine. Forty-one percent opposed the acquitt
  
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• U.S. condemns detention of Citgo executives in Venezuela; hints at sanctions on Russia

  06-02-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Thursday condemned the "cruel and indefensible" detention of executives from U.S. refiner Citgo in Caracas, said the top U.S. envoy for Venezuela, who also warned Russia over its support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.Venezuelan police seized the six executives who had been under house arrest, their families and an attorney said.
  
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• Polls show Biden’s campaign could be doomed

  06-02-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New polls reveal the state of Joe Biden's campaign is far shakier than his longtime lead in the national polls would suggest. In fact, it may have already entered the terminal stage.
  
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• ‘We went through hell.’ Trump attacks Democrats as ‘evil’ as he celebrates impeachment acquittal

  06-02-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump praised GOP lawmakers as "warriors" for defending him on impeachment after entering the formal East Room to "Hail to the Chief."
  
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• Andrew Yang campaign reportedly fires dozens of staffers following poor showing in Iowa

  06-02-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrew Yang's campaign has laid off dozens of staff members, including several senior roles within the campaign, following its disappointing performance in Iowa, where preliminary caucus results show the entrepreneur earning only 1 percent of the delegate count in its sixth place finish.The Democratic presidential hopeful's campaign let go of its national political and policy directors and the deputy national political director, according to Politico, citing several sacked campaign staffers. The
  
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• Wuhan hospital announces death of whistleblower doctor after confusion in state media

  06-02-2020 22:21 via cnn.com
  
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• Schumer: Speech proves Trump will do it again

  06-02-2020 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump slams Democrats and Romney• Analysis: Trump emerges from impeachment politically strengthened
  
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• Romney returns to Utah to explain his impeachment decision

  06-02-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney was back in Utah Thursday explaining his vote to convict President Donald Trump amid pushes by some angry GOP state legislators to censure Romney or create a way to recall the senator.Romney did not speak publicly in the state and his meetings with legislative leaders were held behind closed doors.Many legislators disagreed with his decision on Trump and were concerned about repercussions for the state.
  
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• What's bedroom pop? How an online DIY movement created a musical genre

  06-02-2020 22:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bedroom pop has emerged as a music movement fueled by online platforms, easy access to high-quality music software and algorithmically driven recommendation systems.
  
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• Cruise ship that visited Hong Kong searches for a port after Philippines, Japan deny entry

  06-02-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Holland America confirmed that MS Westerdam is being denied entry to Japan despite there being no known cases of coronavirus aboard.
  
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• Tour bus rolled, started chain-reaction crash that killed 5 on Pennsylvania Turnpike, NTSB says

  06-02-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A crash involving a tour bus that killed five people on the Pennsylvania Turnpike is still under investigation as the NTSB determines a cause.
  
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• Largest maker of pesticide linked to brain damage in kids to stop producing chemical

  06-02-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Announcement comes after Trump administration reversed plans to ban chlorpyrifos and rejected scientific conclusions of expertsThe world’s largest manufacturer of chlorpyrifos, an agricultural pesticide linked to brain damage in children, has announced that it will stop producing the chemical by the end of the year.The announcement on Thursday by Corteva, the corporation formed from a Dow Chemical and DuPont merger, comes after the Trump administration reversed regulatory plans to ban the
  
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• Trump goes on attack in remarks after acquittal

  06-02-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
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• 'It was all bulls***': Trump's full remarks after his acquittal

  06-02-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
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• It Doesn't Matter Who Technically Wins Iowa: Both Bernie Sanders And Pete Buttigieg Did

  06-02-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It may be awhile before we know who technically won the Iowa caucuses, but it doesn’t really matter. In a contest that was always more…
  
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• Andrew Yang's campaign lays off staff at headquarters and field offices after dismal Iowa showing

  06-02-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Less than a week out from the New Hampshire primary, Andrew Yang's campaign cut its staff.
  
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• Guilty vote against Trump topples Romney's old image

  06-02-2020 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. Mitt Romney did something on Wednesday that he hadn't done in a quarter century in politics. By voting guilty on the first article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Romney took a position that was wholly out of step with his party or his raw political self-interest.
  
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• Gayle King slams CBS for sharing 'salacious' clip of Lisa Leslie defending Kobe Bryant

  06-02-2020 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  Gayle King has criticized her employer CBS for sharing a "salacious" and "out of context" clip of her questioning basketball icon Lisa Leslie about allegations leveled against the late Kobe Bryant.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi says tearing up Trump speech 'entirely appropriate,' says president seemed 'sedated' at SOTU

  06-02-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remained defiant Thursday after tearing up a copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
  
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• Trump's prayer breakfast jibes jolt many faith leaders

  06-02-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The National Prayer Breakfast - a Washington tradition since 1953 - is by custom a respite from partisan bickering.President Donald Trump shattered that tradition Thursday with aggressive remarks that buoyed his allies but dismayed a wide spectrum of faith leaders.“A bipartisan prayer breakfast is the last place one would expect to find political attacks on opponents,” said the Rev. Tom Lambrecht, general manager of the conservative United Methodist magazine Good News.
  
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• Sanders Declares Victory in Iowa Despite Close Race

  06-02-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Bernie Sanders declared victory in the Iowa caucuses, despite being essentially tied with former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg in state delegate equivalents as the count was still ongoing.Speaking at a press conference at his campaign headquarters in New Hampshire, the Vermont senator criticized the Iowa Democratic Party’s handling of the delayed caucus results as “unfair.”“What I want to do today, three days late, is to thank the people of Iowa
  
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• News anchor says interview clip about Kobe Bryant was 'out of context'

  06-02-2020 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  In a clip of an interview with WNBA star Lisa Leslie, "CBS This Morning" anchor Gayle King asked about a 2003 sexual assault allegation against Kobe Bryant. Now King is responding to critics saying she's "mortified" that moment was taken "out of context."
  
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• Whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang, who was censored after sounding the alarm about the coronavirus, has died in Wuhan

  06-02-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A doctor in Wuhan, China, who issued an early warning about the new coronavirus and was silenced by police, died early on Friday.
  
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