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• Whistleblower: US workers received evacuees without proper gear

  27-02-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  A whistleblower at the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking federal protection after complaining that more than a dozen workers who received the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, lacked proper training or protective gear for coronavirus infection control.
  
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• What you need to know about changing or canceling your travel plans because of the coronavirus, as outbreaks spread to every continent except Antarctica

  27-02-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most travel providers won't offer a refund or let you change plans just because of coronavirus concerns, but you still have options if you're worried.
  
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• Trump reportedly put Pence in charge of coronavirus because the VP didn't 'have anything else to do'

  27-02-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pence has a spotty record when it comes to health crises, and continues to face criticism over his handling of an HIV outbreak in Indiana as governor.
  
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• The US Navy orders ships in the Pacific to stay at sea at least 14 days between port calls over coronavirus concerns

  27-02-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ships have been instructed to remain at sea at least 14 days, the maximum incubation period for the coronavirus.
  
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• Kentucky governor defends photo posing with drag queens

  27-02-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear defended a photograph of him posing with drag queens at a gay rights rally and accused a Republican lawmaker of using homophobic tactics by displaying the photo at a recent campaign rally while accusing Democrats of corrupting traditional values.Beshear, a Democrat, told reporters Thursday that he would pose for the photo again, saying he was practicing his faith to treat everyone with respect.The Republican lawmaker who denounced the photo at the rally owes an apology
  
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• White House hopefuls target Trump on coronavirus response

  27-02-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic White House hopefuls are seizing on President Donald Trump’s delayed response to the coronavirus outbreak, calling it the latest evidence of his incompetence and warning that the crisis may only deepen as a result.Former Vice President Joe Biden, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar all went after Trump during their CNN town halls Wednesday night.A number of the candidates have released their own pandemic poli
  
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• Venezuela parliament authorizes Guaido to use frozen regime funds

  27-02-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly on Thursday authorized its leader Juan Guaido to take control of around $80 million in assets frozen outside the country due to sanctions against President Nicolas Maduro.Guaido can now set up a trust overseen by the Organization of American States to take control of accounts blocked in the United States and belonging to the top Venezuelan regime figures and the state oil company, lawmaker Alfonso Marquina told AFP.Guaido launched a challenge t
  
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• Dozens of Turkish soldiers killed in strike in Idlib in Syria, reports say

  27-02-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sources put attack death toll at between 22 and 70, in Ankara’s worst day of the conflict so farDozens of Turkish soldiers are reported to have been killed in an airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province, in a dramatic escalation in the battle for control of the country’s last opposition stronghold.Military sources among moderate and jihadist rebel factions fighting in the northwestern province bordering Turkey said up to 70 Turkish soldiers died on Thursday night after a precision s
  
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• Very big waves coming to the Great Lakes

  27-02-2020 23:41 via cnn.com
  
  Very big waves are coming to the Great Lakes, with swells that could exceed 14 feet Thursday, according to CNN meteorologist Michael Guy.
  
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• Trump Spends 45 Minutes With ‘Deep State’ Play Actors Amid Coronavirus Mayhem

  27-02-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland—One day after briefing the press in an attempt to calm nerves about the spread of the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump spent 45 minutes talking to the lead actors of a low-budget conservative play about the so-called Deep State. Phelim McAleer, the playwright behind the play FBI Lovebirds: Undercovers, told The Daily Beast that the meeting with Trump had originally been scheduled for just 15 minutes but went 30 minutes longer than that. “We
  
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• Chaos in the Caribbean as Ports Turn Away Cruises on Virus Fears

  27-02-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Dominican Republic turned away a cruise ship with about 1,500 people on board Thursday, the latest such episode as coronavirus concerns spread to tourist meccas in the Caribbean.Local officials there refused to let passengers leave the Braemar Thursday after learning that some aboard the ship, operated by Bonheur ASA’s Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, were under observation for flu, cough and respiratory problems.The company said no guests or crew had shown symptoms consistent
  
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• Some Uber drivers are refusing to pick up airport passengers because of coronavirus fears

  27-02-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some Uber drivers, anxious about an outbreak and left in the dark by Uber, say they've taken matters into their own hands to avoid exposure
  
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• Right-wing extremists killed 330 in the US in last decade, figures show

  27-02-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new report shows that right-wing extremists were responsible for 330 murders in the United States in the past decade, or 76 percent of all domestic extremist-related murders in that time.The annual Murder and Extremism report published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows that out of the 42 extremist-related murders in the US in 2019, 38 were committed by individuals subscribing to various far-right ideologies, including white supremacy.
  
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• Bill to help small telecoms excise Huawei goes to Trump

  27-02-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Senate has passed a bill to provide $1 billion for small telecom providers to replace equipment made by China's Huawei and ZTE, sending the measure to President Donald Trump.The U.S. government considers the Chinese companies a security risk and has pushed its allies not to use Huawei equipment in next-generation cellular networks, known as 5G.Both companies have denied that China uses their products for spying.
  
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• Church denied 8-year-old boy First Communion because he's autistic, New Jersey family says

  27-02-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Our son is being shunned from the Catholic faith due to his inability to communicate," the boy's father, Jimmy LaCugna, said.
  
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• This time, Sanders 'rigged' the system against himself

  27-02-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Analysis: As the Democratic front-runner claims that a plurality of delegates should give him the nomination, his own actions come back to haunt him.
  
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• In scramble to stop virus, testing raises tough questions

  27-02-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Health officials confronted tough questions and doubts Thursday about testing to intercept the fast-spreading virus, with scrutiny focused on a four-day delay in screening an infected California woman despite her doctors’ early calls to do so.The questions are global: not just who, when and how to test for the illness, but how to make sure that working test kits get out to the labs that need them.All those issues apparently came in to play in the treatment of the woman in northern Californ
  
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• Video about pressures of being a woman goes viral

  27-02-2020 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  A video starring "Sex and the City" actress Cynthia Nixon reading a poem about the pressures put on women has gone viral.
  
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• Should you travel during the coronavirus outbreak?

  27-02-2020 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  With new cases of novel coronavirus reported daily in countries across the globe, many travelers are wondering if they should cancel or postpone existing plans and hold off on booking trips.
  
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• Should you cancel travel plans during the virus outbreak?

  27-02-2020 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  • Religious group leader denies causing S. Korea's outbreak
  • Opinion: Trump meets a new enemy
  
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• Parents of two-year-old boy with cancer face deportation after being denied deferred action grant

  27-02-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The parents of a two-year-old boy with cancer are facing deportation to Mexico under the Trump administration after their grant of “deferred action” was denied.Damaris Alameda Ramos and her husband Fabian Flores Aguirre applied for the grant, which allows migrant families to temporarily live and work in the country while they seek treatment for serious illnesses, so that they could continue to bring their son Fabian Flores Alameda to St Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Ph
  
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• Coronavirus: How Fox News and other right-wing media endanger our health

  27-02-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite steady warnings from health organizations worldwide, right-wing media are clogging airwaves with conspiracy theories and inaccurate reporting.
  
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• Shooter at Milwaukee Molson Coors had a long-running dispute with a co-worker

  27-02-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five people were killed Wednesday by a gunman during a rampage on the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors. He has been identified as Anthony N. Ferrill.
  
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• US demands China free Swedish bookseller

  27-02-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Thursday demanded that China immediately free Hong Kong-based bookseller Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen who was sentenced to 10 years in prison.Gui, who was known for publishing salacious titles about China's political leaders, was snatched while on a train to Beijing in February 2018 and this week sentenced on charges of illegally providing intelligence abroad."We call on the (Chinese) government to release him immediately and unconditionally," State Department spokeswoman M
  
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• Top Democrat signals Sanders needs majority to claim nomination

  27-02-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday signaled to Democratic frontrunner Bernie Sanders that he would need an outright majority of delegates, not just a plurality, to win the party's presidential nomination.Washington's top Democrat declined to say whether she would support the candidacy of Sanders -- flagbearer for the left-wing -- if he arrived at the party convention in July with the most delegates among the candidates, but still short of a majority.
  
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• The CDC outlined an ominous hypothetical scenario about what could happen in the US as the coronavirus spreads. Here's what to expect.

  27-02-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here's what the US could face in the coming months if the coronavirus spreads, according to the CDC.
  
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• US Army, Marines want to make the Hellfire missile replacement more deadly at sea

  27-02-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After working out kinks related to the Hellfire missile replacement's lethality in a maritime environment, the Army and Marine Corps are heading into more tests of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile against targets at sea.
  
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• Mexican state oil firm Pemex losses $18.3 bn in 2019

  27-02-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's state oil company Pemex on Thursday reported losses of 346 billion pesos ($18.3 billion) for 2019, a 92 percent increase on last year's deficit.Pemex said the results were due to the burden of $105 billion in debt, a drop in crude sales and an increase in tax payments."The most important variables that explain this situation are the fall in the price of the Mexican (crude) mix for export; lower reference prices for petrol and diesel; and the reduction in the volume of sales both nationa
  
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• Virginia lawmakers advance gun control bills, including 'red flag' law, month after pro-gun rally

  27-02-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Virginia lawmakers advanced a host of gun control bills Thursday. The proposals drew a massive rally in protest earlier this year.
  
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• U.S. stocks have worst week since 2008

  27-02-2020 22:40 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 1,190 points Thursday, or more than 4%, as economic uncertainty over the spread of the novel coronavirus.
  
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• Pence Says He’s in Charge of U.S. Virus Response, Not HHS’s Azar

  27-02-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Mike Pence said he is now leading the government’s coronavirus task force instead of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.“I’m leading the task force,” Pence said Thursday at a meeting on the virus at HHS headquarters. “We’ll continue to rely on the secretary’s role as chairman of the task force and the leader of Health and Human Services.”President Donald Trump initially appointed Azar to lead the government&
  
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• Efforts to strike coronavirus funding agreement undermined by partisanship

  27-02-2020 22:29 via abcnews.go.com
  
  As urgent as the coronavirus crisis might seem, Congress might not take up emergency funding for two weeks.
  
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• US envoy says Russia faceoff shows Turkey its true ally

  27-02-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States called Thursday on Turkey to learn from clashes in Syria who its true friends are and drop its purchase from Russia of a major missile defense system.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called an urgent meeting after at least nine Turkish troops were killed in an air strike in Syria's Idlib region.Russia is backing a devastating offensive by President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Idlib against rebel groups backed by Ankara.
  
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• California bracing for spread of coronavirus

  27-02-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California said Thursday it was monitoring some 8,400 people for the new coronavirus, after officials confirmed a woman had contracted the disease without traveling to outbreak-hit regions.Governor Gavin Newsom said travelers arriving from affected areas were being monitored and sought to reassure the public that the risk of contracting the virus remains low.
  
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• Authorities identify gunman who killed 5 at Molson Coors brewery

  27-02-2020 22:18 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Law enforcement sources have identified the employee of the Molson Coors Beverage Company who gunned down five co-workers at the company's Milwaukee Brewery campus.
  
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• Dow posts worst drop in history, falling nearly 1,200 points

  27-02-2020 22:09 via cnn.com
  
  US stocks fell into correction territory on Thursday amid a continued selloff over the coronavirus outbreak. All three major US indexes are now on track for their worst week since the financial crisis.
  
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• Mom Enlisted Son to Murder Husband, Daughter for Insurance Money: Prosecutors

  27-02-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A New Jersey woman faces murder charges after allegedly enlisting her son and his friend to brutally kill her daughter and husband 25 years ago by promising them a cut of his life-insurance policy. Dolores Morgan, 66, and her 47-year-old son, Ted Connors, were indicted by a grand jury Wednesday evening on seven counts, including murder and conspiracy, in relation to the 1994 stabbing death of Ana Mejia and the fatal shooting of Nicholas Connors in May 1995, the Monmouth County Prosecutor&rs
  
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• Secret doorway discovered under UK Parliament

  27-02-2020 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  A 17th-century door has just been discovered under London's House of Commons.
  
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• Weinstein, Cosby, Kavanaugh: You can put a number on how much these stories matter

  27-02-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Monday and Tuesday after the Weinstein verdict was delivered, the National Sexual Assault Hotline experienced a 23% increase in call volume.
  
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• Coronavirus: Four times Mike Pence denied health-related science

  27-02-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following the announcement that Mike Pence would be leading the United States’ response to the coronavirus threat, concerns have been raised over the vice president’s ability to handle a health crisis.On Wednesday, President Trump made a rare appearance in the White House briefing room, where he said Pence would be overseeing the administration’s Covid-19 coronavirus task force because “he’s got a certain talent for this”.
  
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• A moderate's promise: If Bernie Sanders is the nominee, I will support him

  27-02-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  We moderates pride ourselves on realism and incrementalism. If Bernie wins the primary, he will be the only alternative to President Trump.
  
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• Idaho targets transgender people, birth certificate changes

  27-02-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Idaho lawmakers moved forward Thursday with legislation banning transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates despite a federal court ruling declaring such a ban unconstitutional.Ohio and Tennessee are the only other states in the country where transgender people cannot change their birth certificates, according to a law firm that has challenged the practice in court.In Idaho, this is another effort by the conservative state to target the population as Republicans i
  
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• Bloomberg campaign reportedly trying to recruit Andrew Yang

  27-02-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may be looking for a bump from the Yang Gang.The Bloomberg campaign has been seeking an endorsement from entrepreneur and former 2020 candidate Andrew Yang and even floated him as a potential running made, The Wall Street Journal reports. "Aides to the former New York City mayor reached out to discuss ways the two entrepreneurs-turned-politicians could work together as Mr. Bloomberg seeks the Democratic nomination," the Journal writes, although Yang r
  
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• Russia sets date for referendum that could extend Putin's rule

  27-02-2020 21:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Russia set a date for a vote that could extend Putin's rule in the country.
  
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• Family creates underground home to escape horror

  27-02-2020 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  As airstrikes continue to ravage life in Syria, a family just outside of Turkey's border are living in an underground cave to stay safe.
  
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• 'He fought us every single step of the way': How Bloomberg embraced stop-and-frisk as mayor

  27-02-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "He dug in and fought us all the way to his last day in office," an activist who opposed stop-and-frisk recalled.
  
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• No, Michael Mann, You Aren’t Going to ‘Ruin’ this ‘Filthy Organization’

  27-02-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A  few days before launching his lawsuit against what he called “this filthy organization,” Michael Mann wrote that there “is a possibility that I can ruin National Review.” Nearly a decade later, we are still fighting his attempt to do precisely that.From the beginning of this affair, National Review has maintained that the case that Mann filed is frivolous, malicious, corrupt, and lacking entirely in legal justification. We maintain that still. The Supreme Court ha
  
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• Pence tries to project calm as virus response coordinator

  27-02-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence sought to project calm Thursday in his new role as chief coordinator of the government's response to the coronavirus as the Trump administration rushed to contain mounting public concerns and some of the worst stock market declines in more than a decade.Pence convened his first meeting of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force one day after the president made him the government's point-person for the epidemic.
  
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• Bloomberg offered running mate spot to Andrew Yang, report claims

  27-02-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Bloomberg is reportedly trying to convince entreprenuer and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang to join his campaign as his running mate.According to individuals with knowledge of the discussion, aides working with the former New York City mayor reportedly reached out to Mr Yang to discuss how the businessmen could join forces in Mr Bloomberg’s quest for the Democratic nomination.
  
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• The Sinister Sanders Child-Care Plan

  27-02-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders announced a “universal child care” proposal at the end of his wide-ranging 60 Minutesinterview with Anderson Cooper. The plan would guarantee “every child in America free full-day, full-week, high-quality child care from infancy through age three,” and the campaign estimates that it would cost taxpayers 1.5 trillion dollars over ten years. But aside from being prohibitively expensive and distressingly vague, the plan looks an awful lot like social engineeri
  
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