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• White House fires Vindman, the officer who testified to House about Ukraine call, in ongoing purge

  07-02-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a star witnesses in the inquiry that led to the impeachment of President Trump, was dismissed from his post on the National Security Council and escorted from the White House Friday, according to his lawyer.
  
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• The US Army wants its soldiers to be able to see enemies and other deadly threats through walls

  07-02-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Army is trying to defeat battlefield unknowns by figuring out how soldiers can see through walls, a capability straight out of science fiction.
  
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• Soldier who testified at Trump impeachment loses W.House job

  07-02-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US Army officer who testified in President Donald Trump's impeachment probe was pushed out of his White House job on Friday, his lawyer said.Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was escorted out of the White House where he worked on the National Security Council, with his lawyer calling the move an act of revenge by the president."Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth," lawyer David Pressman said.
  
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• Pete Buttigieg Once Wrote a High School Essay About His Idol, Bernie Sanders. Tonight, He'll Debate Him

  07-02-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twenty years ago, a chubby and nearly unibrowed high school senior in South Bend, Indiana wrote an essay about his political idol, the then-57-year old…
  
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• Billionaire Mike Bloomberg is looking to pay micro-influencers to make sponsored content for his presidential campaign

  07-02-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former New York City mayor is quietly testing a campaign tactic no Democrat has: attempting to pay influencers to create content about him.
  
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• Weinstein's lawyer Donna Rotunno says she's never been sexually assaulted because she wouldn't 'put herself in that position'

  07-02-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Times' Megan Twohey asked Donna Rotunno if she's been sexually assaulted. She hadn't "because I would never put myself in that position."
  
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• Mother and daughters told 'too big' for business class

  07-02-2020 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three woman are fighting for refunds after Thai Airways forced them to sit in economy seats.
  
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• Coronavirus: Pressure grows to re-open factories

  07-02-2020 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Global firms are waiting for China to re-start production to avoid further disruptions.
  
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• Four-year-old dies from flu after mother 'treated him with advice from anti-vaxx Facebook group'

  07-02-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A four-year-old boy has died from the flu after his mother reportedly treated him with advice offered by members of an anti-vaccine Facebook group, according to reports.Last week, Geneva Montoya, from Pueblo, Colorado, sought advice from the Facebook group "Stop Mandatory Vaccination" after two of her four children had been diagnosed with the flu, according to NBC News.
  
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• The U.S. Government Is Quarantining More Than 800 Americans. Here's Why That Very Rarely Happens

  07-02-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mandatory quarantines in effect for Americans returning from Hubei province are the first in more than 50 years
  
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• Barr's call for U.S. control of 5G providers quickly rebuked

  07-02-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump administration officials, increasingly intent on preventing Chinese global technological domination, keep floating the idea that the U.S. government should take a more direct hand in running next-generation 5G wireless networks.On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr said the U.S. government should consider taking a “ controlling stake ” in the European companies Nokia and Ericsson to thwart the global ambitions of China-based Huawei, which holds a leading share of the marke
  
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• US Marine charged with human smuggling says he was offered $1,000 to help transport an undocumented migrant

  07-02-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The two US Marines who were arrested agreed to answer questions from Border Patrol agents without an attorney present.
  
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• Exclusive photos of Giuliani in Spain could bring trouble for Trump's lawyer

  07-02-2020 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  Stored in devices seized from Lev Parnas by law enforcement, there's a 34-second cell phone video of Rudy Giuliani relishing a bullfight. There are also photos of Donald Trump's personal attorney posing with two matadors, a flamenco dancer twirling her skirt and an image of the father of Venezuela's opposition leader beside a tray of hors d'oeuvres on the lawn of a Spanish castle.
  
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• Was this Trump's best week yet?

  07-02-2020 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From the Iowa caucus mishap to his acquittal in the Senate, this week has treated the US president well.
  
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• Team Clinton Hits Sanders Ahead of New Hampshire Primary

  07-02-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Before the Iowa caucuses, an ally of Bernie Sanders led a crowd in booing Hillary Clinton. This week, members of Team Clinton returned the favor.In the latest evidence that the 2016 election will never end, Clinton and two longtime allies have hammered Sanders over his ideology, his second-place finish in Iowa and his ability to get elected.Clinton, who said in January that Sanders was unlikable and insufficiently supportive of her nomination, hit him indirectly in an interview Th
  
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• ACLU criticizes conviction of black Minnesota teen

  07-02-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota called Friday for an investigation into the conviction of a black teenager who is serving life in prison, after The Associated Press uncovered serious flaws and inconsistencies in the police probe.Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who was the top prosecutor in Minnesota’s most populous Hennepin County at the time, has highlighted that case throughout her political career as an example of getting justice for victims.
  
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• Michael Bloomberg surges to 2nd place in the betting markets

  07-02-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans may not be betting on Michael Bloomberg yet, but betting markets still think he's got a chance.The former New York City mayor has totally leapfrogged former Vice President Joe Biden in an average of betting markets, RealClearPolitics' average shows. Bloomberg has a 19 percent chance of winning, per ElectionBettingOdds.com, while PredictIt's betting market gives Bloomberg a 23-cent "yes" price to Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 43 cents.Bloomberg's rise coincides with a major drop in Biden
  
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• Trump ousts White House staffer who testified against him in impeachment: lawyer

  07-02-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday removed Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from his position as the White House's top Ukraine expert after he provided damaging testimony about President Donald Trump during the impeachment process, Vindman's lawyer said. Vindman was escorted out of the White House where he had worked on the National Security Council (NSC), lawyer David Pressman said in a statement, adding that the move was retribution for Vindman's testim
  
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• New York to sue Trump administration for blocking state residents from Global Entry

  07-02-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Homeland Security policy, which came in response to New York's Green Light Law, does not allow state residents to enroll or reenroll in several border crossing programs.
  
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• Alexander Vindman Fired from White House after Serving as Impeachment Witness

  07-02-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top White House expert on Ukraine who testified in the House phase of the recently concluded impeachment trial, was fired from the White House Friday and escorted out, according to his attorney."LTC Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth," Vindman's lawyer David Pressman said in a statement. "The truth has cost LTC Alexander Vindman his job, his career, and his privacy."Vindman, a National Security Council official, testified to the House Intelligence Co
  
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• Biden Shifts Campaign Leadership, Gives Anita Dunn New Role

  07-02-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Veteran Democratic operative Anita Dunn is taking on a larger role in Joe Biden’s presidential campaign after his bruising fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucus.Campaign manager Greg Schultz and campaign chairman Steve Ricchetti said in an email to staff that Biden asked Dunn to take on “an expanded role in the headquarters.”Dunn “will be working closely with us on campaign strategy and overall coordination on budget and personnel as we build a bigger camp
  
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• Trump Impeachment Fury Sows Fear of Payback Among Diplomats

  07-02-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump mostly stifled his fury toward the impeachment witnesses who detailed, over hundreds of hours of testimony, the turmoil wrought by his handling of Ukraine policy. Now that he’s been acquitted of two impeachment charges, they’re bracing for payback.It may have begun on Friday. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council analyst who gave damning testimony in the House impeachment inquiry, was escorted out of the White House and removed from hi
  
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• Antarctica logs highest temperature on record of 18.3C

  07-02-2020 22:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The provisional reading of 18.3C (64.9F) beats the previous record of 17.5C, logged in 2015.
  
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• Trump says it's 'illegal' for Pelosi to tear up his State of the Union address. Experts say that's not true

  07-02-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Because Speaker Pelosi’s copy is not a government record, she did not violate the law by ripping it up," said Professor Douglas Cox.
  
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• Man pleads guilty to killing his wife on cruise to Alaska

  07-02-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder in the beating death of his wife during a 2017 family cruise to Alaska.During Friday's hearing Kenneth Manzanares acknowledged details of a plea agreement he'd earlier signed, which said he beat his wife, Kristy Manzanares, after she told him during an argument that she wanted a divorce.Kenneth Manzanares,of Santa Clara, Utah said he hit his wife with a closed fist, saw blood and hit her again but had no memory after that, according to the docu
  
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• 'Caution I have the coronavirus' prank in Illinois Walmart causes $10k in damage, police say

  07-02-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two teens has been charged after pulling a coronavirus prank at a Walmart in Joliet, Illinois, according to police.
  
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• Did Russian-Made Missiles Strike an Israeli Stealth F-35 in 2017?

  07-02-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Probably not. Here's what we know.
  
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• Kobe Bryant's helicopter engine did not fail, federal investigators say in preliminary NTSB report

  07-02-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryan, his daughter "Gigi" and seven others left the cockpit "highly fragmented" and in flames, the report said.
  
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• UK appoints new ambassador to the US

  07-02-2020 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  The United Kingdom appointed a new ambassador to the United States on Friday, more than six months after the previous ambassador resigned following a leak of his private diplomatic cables disparaging the Trump administration.
  
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• DC appeals court: Lawmakers can't sue President Trump in dispute over private business dealings

  07-02-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Judges dismissed one of three cases regarding the Emoluments Clause, which bars the president from receiving money from foreign leaders.
  
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• 'I'm the sheriff, who are you?': Sheriff stops fake cop car in its tracks

  07-02-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard noticed something unusual about what he thought was a police car, but turned out to be a copycat.
  
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• Summers Worries U.S. Tax Cuts May Lead to Financial Trouble

  07-02-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world threatened by trade wars. Sign up here. Reductions in the U.S. corporate-tax rate in 2018 didn’t result in much more investment, said former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is concerned about the economy running into “financial trouble.”“There is no evidence of any kind that we have seen any substantial increase in investment because of cutting the corporate tax rate to 21%,&rd
  
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• Before Kobe Bryant Crash, Helicopter Company Had Clashed Over Safety

  07-02-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES -- In the years before the helicopter crash that killed the basketball legend Kobe Bryant and eight other people, the company operating the aircraft, Island Express Helicopters, had a series of disputes over its safety practices, according to federal accident reports and a former federal safety inspector.The tensions first came to the attention of federal investigators in 2008, when a fatal accident involving an Island Express helicopter revealed disagreements that had been playing o
  
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• Ex-cop freed after years without charges in child porn probe

  07-02-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Philadelphia Police sergeant has been released after spending more than four years in jail without charges because he failed to unlock two of his hard drives for investigators who suspected he'd stored child pornography on them, his lawyer said Friday.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Thursday that federal law allows the government to hold someone for no longer than 18 months for civil contempt.The appeals court directed that Francis Rawls be set free.
  
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• In Iowa, Bernie’s Youth Movement Showed Up While Generation X Flaked Out

  07-02-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even as the Iowa caucus results are marred by reports of inaccuracies and it remains uncertain whether Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg won more “state delegate equivalents,” one thing that is clear is that Sanders won the most votes. The Vermont socialist beat the former mayor of South Bend, Ind. 24.8 percent to 21.3 percent in the first round of voting and 26.6 percent to 25.0 percent in the final round of voting (after caucus-goers for candidates who didn’t meet the “v
  
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• Trump Says Congress Should Expunge Impeachment from Record

  07-02-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump said Friday that Congress should expunge his impeachment from the congressional record since it was a "political hoax."“That's a very good question," Trump said when asked whether Congress should wipe the record clean. "Should they expunge the impeachment in the House? They should because it was a hoax. It was a total political hoax.”The Senate acquitted Trump on Wednesday of the two impeachment charges against him, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The pres
  
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• Vladimir Putin enjoys a drink during hockey match with Belarus' president

  07-02-2020 20:48 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Vladimir Putin has hit the ice hockey rink again – this time, with a captain’s “C” emblazoned on his jersey.
  
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• British ISIS bride's initial bid to regain UK citizenship rejected by court

  07-02-2020 20:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  British ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s bid to regain her British citizenship was rejected Friday at its initial stage, according to reports.
  
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• GOP congressman calls for Romney to be expelled from Republican caucus

  07-02-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz on Thursday called for Sen. Mitt Romney to be expelled from Republican ranks in the Senate.
  
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• A 4-year-old died of the flu after his anti-vaxxer mom didn't give him Tamiflu — here's how the drug can prevent the virus from becoming deadly

  07-02-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tamiflu is a medicine used to treat strains of the influenza virus (the flu) that can be given to anyone older than two weeks.
  
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• Trump wins congressional Democrats' emoluments lawsuit

  07-02-2020 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump beat back a lawsuit by 215 congressional Democrats who say he has been violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause by profiting from foreign government spending at his Washington hotel and other properties, capping a triumphant week for the president.
  
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• Probe: Bryant helicopter was 100 feet from clear skies

  07-02-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A witness to the deadly crash of a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others said it sounded normal just before slamming into a hillside and wreckage examined by expertsat the scene showed no sign of engine failure, federal investigators said in a report released Friday.The Jan. 26 crash occurred in cloudy conditions and aviation experts said the “investigative update” from the National Transportation Safety Board reinforces the notion the pilot became disoriented and crashed
  
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• It was nearly 65 degrees in Antarctica, which may be the warmest day ever recorded there

  07-02-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The normally bitterly cold Antarctica recorded a temperature of 65 degrees on Thursday, which may be the warmest day ever there.
  
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• Excessive fear of coronavirus can be dangerous

  07-02-2020 20:26 via cnn.com
  
  Just what is it about potential pandemics that scare us so? While the odds of dying from a car accident or heart disease are greater -- at least in the United States -- rare infectious diseases still loom larger in our collective nightmares.
  
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• Trump Beats Congressional Democrats’ Emoluments Lawsuit

  07-02-2020 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump beat back a lawsuit by 215 congressional Democrats who say he has been violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause by profiting from foreign government spending at his Washington hotel and other properties, capping a triumphant week for the president.A 3-0 federal appeals court in Washington on Friday said the House and Senate members lack legal standing to sue the president because they had not been injured by his alleged conduct. None of the judges was appo
  
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• Most New Hampshire Democrats would rather see a meteor 'extinguish all human life' than Trump re-elected, poll finds

  07-02-2020 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A good majority of New Hampshire Democrats are feeling existential right about now.According to a poll from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, 64 percent of Democratic voters would rather see "a giant meteor strike the Earth, extinguishing all human life" than President Trump re-elected. The poll, conducted Jan. 28–31, also shows about half of Independent voters would say the same extreme thing.How New Hampshire voters feel about the death of humanity does coincide with how well th
  
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• Syria accidentally fired a missile at a civilian jet carrying 172 passengers and forced it to divert into a Russian airport

  07-02-2020 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The incident renewed fears that a broader conflict in the region could jeopardize the safety of air travel in an increasingly militarized area.
  
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• Virginia could scrap a Confederate holiday dating back to the 1800s and instead mark Election Day

  07-02-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats in Virginia's House voted Thursday to remove Lee-Jackson Day, honoring the Confederate leaders, and add Election Day as a holiday.
  
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• Snakebit! Bullmastiff heals, heads to Westminster Dog Show

  07-02-2020 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Whatever got a piece of gentle Titus in the North Carolina brush, it was trouble.Co-owner Cassandra Carpenter reckons it was a pygmy rattlesnake.Veterinarian Jess Hunter figures it could've been a copperhead.
  
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• Man who ran down 2 students faces manslaughter charges

  07-02-2020 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man was charged with manslaughter Friday in the deaths of two suburban Oklahoma City high school cross-country athletes whom he hit with his truck as they ran on a sidewalk just a day after his own son was killed in a traffic accident.Max Leroy Townsend, 57, is accused of running over six Moore High School cross-country runners in front of the school Monday afternoon, killing senior Rachel Freeman and sophomore Yuridia Martinez.Townsend was also charged Friday with leaving the scene of a fatal
  
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