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• Refugees in Germany give back by sewing coronavirus face masks for the retired

  08-04-2020 23:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Refugees in a small German town are giving back to the community by sewing face masks for those who are retired, a group that is at high risk of contracting the novel coronavirus, according to a Wednesday report.
  
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• Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 8 points in new poll; majority believe US is in a recession

  08-04-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The poll found Biden is the top choice among 49% of registered voters and Trump the top choice of 41%. Biden is boosted by self-identified independent voters.
  
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• 'Debt phobia': Mexican leader's coronavirus gamble

  08-04-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If supporters and opponents of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador can agree on anything, it's that he is very stubborn.Rarely during his 16 months in power has the leftist dug his heels in more than when insisting he will not spend his way out of the economic bind the coronavirus crisis has put Mexico in.The debate has plunged his relations with business leaders to their lowest ebb, as even some allies urge him to relax his grip on the budget to keep companies afloat in what looks lik
  
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• Outrage after Ellen DeGeneres jokes self-quarantine is like 'being in jail'

  08-04-2020 23:48 via cnn.com
  
  One of Ellen DeGeneres' jokes backfired this week after some people called her out for comparing self-quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic to "being in jail."
  
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• 'Terrified of dying': Immigrants beg to be released from immigration detention as coronavirus spreads

  08-04-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 34,000 people are detained by ICE, which says it is reviewing cases to determine whether it can release migrants most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
  
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• 'Yikes!' Christiane Amanpour reacts to Fox News montage about virus

  08-04-2020 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Christiane Amanpour and NYT opinion columnist Kara Swisher discuss Fox News' role in spreading misinformation about the coronavirus.
  
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• 'Yikes!' Amanpour reacts to Fox News montage about virus

  08-04-2020 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Christiane Amanpour and NYT opinion columnist Kara Swisher discuss Fox News' role in spreading misinformation about the coronavirus.
  
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• Biden campaign assembling VP selection committee

  08-04-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democrat nominee, told donors Wednesday afternoon that his campaign is putting together a team to help pick his running mate. 
  
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• Newly engaged gay cop is Florida police's first coronavirus fatality

  08-04-2020 23:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sheriff’s Deputy Shannon Bennett, 39, died from COVID-19 on April 3 after falling ill March 23. He proposed to his fiancé four months before his death.
  
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• AP Interview: 'Lula' says Bolsonaro a disaster amid pandemic

  08-04-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In home isolation just months after his release from jail, Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro needs to change his dismissive approach to the new coronavirus or risk being forced from office before the end of his term in December 2022.The former president known as Lula said in an interview with The Associated Press that Bolsonaro’s defiance of calls for social distancing hamper the efforts of governors and mayors to con
  
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• The White House is reportedly developing a plan to get back to 'normality'

  08-04-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, told Democratic lawmakers during a phone call Wednesday that the Trump administration is developing a framework for getting the United States back into a state of "normality" in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Politico reports.Fauci didn't provide any possible timeline, but he did say the White House will likely issue some guidance in the coming days about transitioning society out of lockdown
  
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• Polls: Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, trust Fauci

  08-04-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Majorities on both sides of the aisle said they were satisfied with the information from Dr. Anthony Fauci.
  
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• California woman accused of licking, ruining $1,800 in groceries

  08-04-2020 23:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jennifer Walker, 53, of South Lake Tahoe was booked on suspicion of felony vandalism.
  
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• Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler to Liquidate, Convert Stock Shares

  08-04-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Senator Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday she and her husband are liquidating their investment portfolio following criticism of their sales and purchases of millions of dollars worth of stocks amid the coronavirus outbreak.The Georgia Republican, who is running to keep her Senate seat in a Nov. 3 nonpartisan primary, announced in a Wall Street Journal opinion-page article that the couple’s stock holdings will be converted to mutual funds and exchange-traded funds to be controlle
  
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• WHO fires back after Trump's threat

  08-04-2020 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  The head of the World Health Organization defended the organization's response to the coronavirus pandemic, at one point directly responding to criticisms leveled by President Donald Trump.
  
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• WHO fires back after Trump threatened to pull US funding

  08-04-2020 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  The head of the World Health Organization defended the organization's response to the coronavirus pandemic, at one point directly responding to criticisms leveled by President Donald Trump.
  
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• Harris Raises Cash While Biden Talks About Running Mate Search

  08-04-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Kamala Harris joined Joe Biden for a virtual fundraiser on Wednesday as speculation swirled about who he will choose for his running mate. The event was only hours after Bernie Sanders withdrew from the presidential race, effectively triggering the start of the general election against President Donald Trump.Harris, who dropped out of the race in December, briefly introduced Biden at the event, saying his leadership was needed to oversee the response to the coronavirus pandemic.&l
  
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• Gossip: Chelsea hold Coutinho talks, plus more

  08-04-2020 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea in advanced talks for Coutinho, Man Utd linked with Rodriguez, Besiktas want Hart, plus more.
  
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• Premier League players launch initiative to help NHS

  08-04-2020 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Premier League players launch a "collective initiative" to help generate funds for the National Health Service
  
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• Trump grants ventilators to Colorado 'at the request' of its GOP senator — a week after its Democratic governor begged for them

  08-04-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colorado's Democratic Gov. Jared Polis made it clear his state was in desperate need of ventilators.In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence sent March 28, Polis asked for 10,000 ventilators and other medical supplies, cc'ing his state's Democratic and Republican senators. But when President Trump announced Wednesday that Colorado was getting 100 ventilators, he said it was at the request of Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.).> Will be immediately sending 100 Ventilators to Colorado at the request o
  
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• Countries in Asia are facing new waves of coronavirus infections after lockdowns lift. The same could happen in the rest of the world.

  08-04-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lift lockdown, get a new wave of cases, shut down again: "What happened in Wuhan could happen repeatedly to a city," one epidemiologist said.
  
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• Brazil turns to local industry to build ventilators as China orders fall through

  08-04-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil's health minister said on Wednesday that the country's attempts to purchase thousands of ventilators from China to fight the coronavirus epidemic fell through and the government is now looking to Brazilian companies to build the devices."Practically all our purchases of equipment in China are not being confirmed," Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said at a news conference.An attempt to buy 15,000 ventilators in China failed and Brazil was making a new bid, he said, but the outcome is uncer
  
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• Body of Gideon McKean is found after canoe accident

  08-04-2020 23:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  The boy was found about 2,000 feet from his mother, Maeve Kennedy McKean, whose body was recovered Monday.
  
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• Texas teen accused of threatening to spread coronavirus is charged

  08-04-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Maradiaga claimed in a series of Snapchat videos to have tested positive and threatened to willfully spread COVID-19, according to police.
  
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• Here's what needs to happen for America to return to "normal"

  08-04-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. — and the world — has a long way to go before life begins to resemble the pre-coronavirus era.
  
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• Portugal suspends water, electricity shutoffs and releases some prisoners amid coronavirus outbreak

  08-04-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Portugal's parliament temporarily suspended electricity, water and gas shutoffs and granted partial pardon to some of its prisoners on Wednesday as the country moved to contain the economic and social damage of the coronavirus outbreak.Until a month after the end of the state of emergency, called on March 18 to prevent the spread of coronavirus and extended last week to at least April 17, electricity, water, and gas cannot be shut off, easing pressure on Portuguese families struggling to pay the
  
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• German charity takes coronavirus aid directly to homes

  08-04-2020 22:57 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Throughout the world, the coronavirus pandemic is especially hard-hitting for poor families, even in rich countries like Germany. A small Christian charity that provides help to about 1,300 poor families across Germany is now delivering food, diapers, soap and children’s games to their doorstep.
  
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• The Marine Corps Wants to Transform JLTVs into Aircraft-Killing Trucks

  08-04-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Marine Corps Systems Command recently invited defense firms to submit ideas for creating the Direct Fire Defeat System.
  
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• Divers find body of Robert F. Kennedy's 8-year-old great-grandson

  08-04-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Divers found the body of 8-year-old Gideon McKean, a great-grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
  
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• White Supremacist Groups are Recruiting With Help From Coronavirus – and a Popular Messaging App

  08-04-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As COVID-19 spreads around the world, white supremacist groups are seizing onto it to recruit and spread misinformation
  
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• Body of Gideon McKean, great-grandson of RFK, found after 5 days

  08-04-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The body of his mother, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, was recovered two days earlier.
  
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• From fine to flailing - rapid health declines in COVID-19 patients jar doctors, nurses

  08-04-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Patients "look fine, feel fine, then you turn around and they're unresponsive," said Diana Torres, a nurse at MountSinai Hospital in New York, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, where the virus has infected more than 415,000 people.It isn’t just elderly or patients with underlying health conditions who can be fine one minute and at death's door the next.It can happen for the young and healthy, too, health professionals told Reuters.
  
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• Police: Body of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's grandson found

  08-04-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities recovered the body of a grandson of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Wednesday, two days after the body of the boy's mother was found in the water after a canoeing accident.The body of 8-year-old Gideon McKean was found in roughly 25 feet (8 meters) of water more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) south of his grandmother's residence in Shady Side, Maryland, where he and his mother had launched the canoe, according to a news release from the state Natural Resources Poli
  
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• Wisconsin's pandemic election puts focus on state's court

  08-04-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anyone needing proof of the power and significance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court can look no further than the lines of mask-wearing voters that stretched for hours in Milwaukee during an election held despite a stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus pandemic.The fact that Wisconsin went forward when other states delayed their elections, and that many voters were willing to endure long waits to cast ballots, reflects the hotly disputed role the court has taken in a state with outsize impo
  
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• The weird docu-series we can't stop watching

  08-04-2020 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  Netflix's bizarre new series follows eccentric private zoo owner Joe Exotic and his menagerie of big cats. Here's how it became a massive hit.
  
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• Florida man charged with 'biological weapons hoax' over coronavirus threats

  08-04-2020 22:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  As officers tried to restrain him, he told a female officer, "I have corona, b----, and I'm spreading it around," according to court documents.
  
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• Charlotte Figi, girl with severe seizures that inspired CBD treatments, dies at 13

  08-04-2020 22:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Colorado teen's use of CBD oil to try and ease her rare form of epilepsy drove other families to try CBD and medical marijuana to treat seizures.
  
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• With ventilators in short supply, here are some alternatives

  08-04-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With mechanical ventilators in short supply, doctors are scrambling to find alternatives for patients fighting the coronavirus. Here are some of their options.
  
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• New Yahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll shows Americans turning against Trump

  08-04-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The new survey found that Americans increasingly blame Trump for the vast scale of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Doctor's death highlights limits of coronavirus death count

  08-04-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus bore down on New York, Dr. Doug Bass' family begged him to work from home.“He said he was on the front lines and they needed him,” his brother, Jonathan Bass, told The Associated Press.It happened so quickly he was never tested for COVID-19, but his brother believes he was among the hundreds of undiagnosed cases that, for weeks, have been excluded from the official coronavirus death toll.
  
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• Girl who sparked marijuana reform dies after getting unspecified virus

  08-04-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Charlotte Figi's success with CBD as a treatment for childhood seizures led to medical marijuana reform.
  
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• 'Don't politicize this virus': WHO chief hits back at Trump criticism

  08-04-2020 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday defended the organization's response to the coronavirus pandemic, at one point directly responding to criticisms leveled by President Donald Trump.
  
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• Bernie Sanders reportedly spoke to Biden and Obama before ending his 2020 run

  08-04-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had made a few phone calls to the last administration before making his big dropout decision.Sanders suspended his 2020 run on Wednesday, saying his "path toward victory is virtually impossible" but pledging to stay on primary ballots through the Democratic National Convention to gain influence in the party. And shortly after making that announcement, Sanders reportedly made a call to Joe Biden, who he left as the presumptive Democratic nominee, CBS News reports.>
  
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• Outcry over racial data grows as virus slams black Americans

  08-04-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus tightens its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population — black Americans.Democratic lawmakers and community leaders in cities hard-hit by the pandemic have been sounding the alarm over what they see as a disturbing trend of the virus killing African Americans at a higher rate, along with a lack of overall information about the race of victims as the nation’s death toll mounts.Among the cities wh
  
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• At least 100 American Airlines flight attendants have contracted the coronavirus. Some are sounding the alarm over shortages of personal protective equipment.

  08-04-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some American Airlines flight attendants who spoke with Business Insider said gloves and disinfectant are not always available.
  
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• In the shadow of coronavirus, Trump seizes chance to carry out a long-desired purge

  08-04-2020 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  There was a moment during Monday's coronavirus press briefing when President Donald Trump was asked about a recent government watchdog report about testing shortages in hundreds of hospitals across the US. As the reporter asked her question, a certain phrase triggered a reaction from Trump.
  
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• Truck drivers are quietly ruling America's highways as shelter-in-place orders force millions to stay home

  08-04-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Truck drivers are sincerely hoping you'll keep working from home after the coronavirus pandemic is over, because their commutes are better than ever.
  
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• The conspiracy linking 5G to coronavirus just will not die

  08-04-2020 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  As the spread of the coronavirus is proving difficult to contain, so too is the misinformation surrounding it.
  
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• A timeline of Trump's missed opportunities on coronavirus

  08-04-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the deadly coronavirus outbreak rapidly spread across American in February and March, President Trump repeatedly asserted that “nobody could have predicted something like this.” But a review of government records shows that repeated warnings were issued to the White House and went unheeded.
  
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• WHO urges virus unity after Trump attack

  08-04-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the WHO prepares to mark 100 days on Thursday since it was first notified of the outbreak in China, director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hit back at accusations that it had been too close to Beijing.The UN's health agency has faced criticism in the past both for overreacting and for moving too slowly in fighting epidemics, but it has rarely faced as much scrutiny as with the COVID-19 pandemic.Trump piled in on Tuesday, accusing the WHO having "called it wrong" and months too late, whil
  
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