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• Leaders 'aren't even pretending to be in charge': Obama

  16-05-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Barack Obama indirectly criticized his successor Donald Trump during a virtual graduation ceremony Saturday, in rare public judgment from the former US president during the coronavirus pandemic. "More than anything this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing," Obama told graduates from several dozen historically black colleges and universities. "A lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge," he said as he
  
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• Eurovision: Abba's Waterloo voted best song of all time

  16-05-2020 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Abba topped a BBC show's poll, before the contest's producers marked the show that might have been.
  
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• USS Theodore Roosevelt sailor comes down with tuberculosis as other sailors on the ship retest positive for COVID-19

  16-05-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The sailor was found to have tuberculosis as 13 other sailors who had been cleared to get back on the carrier retested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• A 46-year-old doctor who was critically ill made startling recovery

  16-05-2020 23:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  "This virus nearly ended my life,” the Arizona physician said. He recovered with help from a life-support system that isn't widely available.
  
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• Hundreds demand justice for Arbery at Georgia rally

  16-05-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed during a pursuit by a white man and his son in Georgia, isn't just prison time for his killers — it's changes in a local justice system that never charged them with a crime, rallygoers said Saturday. Hundreds of people came to the Glynn County courthouse demanding accountability for a case in which charges weren't filed until state officials stepped in after a leaked video sparked national outrage. Gregory McMichael, 64, told police he and his
  
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• Wisconsin nurse went to bar to help sister reopen, now apologizes

  16-05-2020 23:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I let my guard down and apologize for making anyone feel uncomfortable or at risk," said nurse Katie Koutsky, who was not wearing a mask when interviewed on TV at the bar.
  
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• GM chief confirms job cuts at autonomous car company Cruise

  16-05-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Auto giant General Motors (GM), the main shareholder in autonomous car company Cruise, confirmed Friday that the business will cut 160 jobs, or eight percent, of its workforce."It was a very prudent action," GM chief Mary Barra told an online conference organized by Bank of America, noting that the layoffs will not involve technical staff dedicated to the company's mission of developing self-driving vehicles."They've grown very quickly," she said of Cruise, which employs 2,000 workers largely in
  
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• Coronavirus: Italy takes 'calculated risk' in easing restrictions - PM

  16-05-2020 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  PM Giuseppe Conte says infections could rise again but the country cannot afford to wait for a vaccine.
  
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• New York tourist arrested after posting Hawaii beach photos

  16-05-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tarique Peters, 23, of the Bronx, arrived in Honolulu on Monday, said a news release from the Hawaii COVID-19 Joint Information Center.
  
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• How many people are dying of coronavirus in Mexico? It's hard to say

  16-05-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In cities across Mexico, morgues are full and funeral homes are jammed but nobody knows for sure how many people have died in the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Obama, in national commencement address, decries racial impact of COVID-19 deaths

  16-05-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Obama gives back-to-back virtual graduation speeches, to historically black colleges and to high school students nationwide.
  
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• Space Force flag unveiled at White House

  16-05-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  The US Space Force, the newest branch of the armed services, has unveiled its official flag.
  
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• Fred Willard, 'Best in Show' and 'This IS Spinal Tap' comedy star, has died

  16-05-2020 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  Fred Willard, the comedic actor known for his roles in movies including "Best in Show" and "This is Spinal Tap" and TV sitcoms "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Modern Family," has died.
  
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• Nevada Rep. Horsford acknowledges he had extramarital affair

  16-05-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic Congressman Steven Horsford of Nevada on Saturday acknowledged he had an extramarital affair with a woman who said the on-and-off relationship began in 2009 before ending last September. Horsford, 47, in a statement released to The Associated Press responded to a report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he had an affair with Gabriela Linder, who previously had shared her story on podcasts and Twitter posts through a pseudonym before she was interviewed Friday by the newspaper. &ldq
  
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• Obama criticizes virus response in online graduation speech

  16-05-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized U.S. leaders overseeing the nation's response to the coronavirus, telling college graduates in an online commencement address that the pandemic shows many officials "aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”Obama spoke on “Show Me Your Walk, HBCU Edition,” a two-hour event for students graduating from historically black colleges and universities broadcast on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.“More than anything, this p
  
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• Governors across U.S. face tough choices as coronavirus takes its toll on state budgets

  16-05-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged lawmakers to put politics aside and focus on helping New York and other states receive funding from the federal government.
  
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• Navy grants waiver allowing transgender sailor to serve openly

  16-05-2020 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  The service member, known only as Jane Doe, will be permitted to serve in accordance with her gender identity, opposed to her sex assigned at birth.
  
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• Mom gives birth in parking lot, dad uses face mask to cut cord

  16-05-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  David Patrick said he rolled the face mask "up tightly like a tortilla and tied a knot around our son's umbilical cord."
  
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• Sunday's gossip: Mbappe will stay one more season at PSG

  16-05-2020 22:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mbappe to stay at PSG, Juventus close to Pogba deal, Xavi doubts over Mane and Aubameyang for Barca, plus more.
  
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• Fed says around 600 smaller banks tapped PPP facility in its first days

  16-05-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Around 600 banks, most of them small community institutions, tapped the Federal Reserve's Paycheck Protection Program facility for about $30 billion of loans as of May 6, the U.S. central bank reported on Saturday in its first detailed disclosure under the new program.The lenders used 3,676 PPP loans they had issued to small businesses as collateral for money from the central bank's PPP program, clearing room on their own balance sheet for further lending.The Fed said it had collected $2.5 milli
  
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• Ibrahimovic statue set to move from Malmö's stadium after vandalism

  16-05-2020 22:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Local council is looking for a new site in Swedish cityStatue targeted after Ibrahimovic bought stake in HammarbyZlatan Ibrahimovic’s statue is likely to be relocated from outside Malmö’s stadium to another site in the city after repeated acts of vandalism.The statue was unveiled outside the Swedbank Stadium last October but has come under attack since Ibrahimovic, who began his career with Malmö FF, became a part-owner of Hammarby, a rival top-flight club based in Stockhol
  
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• Fox News coronavirus coverage dropped by 20% as the network shifted to 'Obamagate' and hosts focused on anti-lockdown stories

  16-05-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Coronavirus coverage has dropped 20% as the network traded it for stories on anti-lockdown protests and echoing Trump's comments.
  
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• Olympic champion Stefanidi wins women's garden pole vault

  16-05-2020 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi wins the women's edition of the garden pole vault challenge.
  
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• NFL's Deandre Baker and Quinton Dunbar surrender after robbery charge

  16-05-2020 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The two players turned themselves in to police in Florida following charges for armed robbery and aggravated assault.
  
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• Italy PM says taking calculated risk in rolling back lockdown

  16-05-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Italian Prime MInister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday Italy was taking a calculated risk in rolling back lockdown measures from next week as the daily death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic fell to its lowest since March 9."We're facing a calculated risk, knowing that the epidemiological curve could rise again," Conte said in press conference to detail measures taken by the Rome to restart most economic activities and lift restrictions on people's movements.With shops allowed to open from Monday
  
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• NFL player Cody Latimer arrested for discharge of firearm, assault

  16-05-2020 21:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  The wide receiver faces five charges following his arrest in a Denver suburb Saturday morning.
  
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• Frank Bielec, beloved 'Trading Spaces' designer, dies at 72

  16-05-2020 21:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  The designer and TLC star was part of the original "Trading Spaces" cast and re-joined for the reboot in 2018.
  
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• Fred Willard, much-loved star of Best in Show and This is Spinal Tap, dies aged 86

  16-05-2020 21:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Willard, whose career was reinvigorated by his work on the mockumentaries of Rob Reiner and Christopher Guest, was a beloved and ubiquitous presence in US comedyFred Willard, an actor whose career was dotted with innumerable indelible cameos playing genial buffoons in unfortunate roles of authority, has died aged 86.The news was first broken by Jamie Lee Curtis, the wife of Christopher Guest, in whose mockumentaries – including Best in Show and A Mighty Wind – Willard won a new army
  
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• Coronavirus: Beach crowds as countries ease lockdowns

  16-05-2020 21:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People head to the seaside around the world, with various measures to maintain social distancing.
  
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• Piers Corbyn among those arrested at Hyde Park anti-lockdown protest – video

  16-05-2020 21:12 via theguardian.com
  
  The brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was one of several protesters arrested at an anti-lockdown demonstration in Hyde Park. Between 50 and 70 people defied social distancing guidelines to gather close together at Speakers’ CornerPiers Corbyn among those held in coronavirus lockdown protests  Continue reading...
  
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• Parents who handcuffed their son at home arrested after boy escapes, police say

  16-05-2020 21:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  "This child is being handcuffed in his own home," authorities said. "He's being not just abused, but tortured by his parents."
  
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• Disinfected balls, temperature checks & silence - football's new reality?

  16-05-2020 21:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The German Bundesliga restarts and gives a glimpse into what the Premier League and other top leagues may look like.
  
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• Third-party bid for president abandoned

  16-05-2020 20:58 via cnn.com
  
  Michigan Rep. Justin Amash has announced that he will not run for president as a third party candidate.
  
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• Coronavirus: How face masks are becoming fashionable

  16-05-2020 20:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With governments recommending face masks, the fashion world is ensuring they remain on trend.
  
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• Qatar Airways' new policy is letting customers book 2020 travel from the US to nearly anywhere in the world for under $500 — but it still may be too soon to travel

  16-05-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A $494 ticket from Washington, DC to Yerevan, Armenia can be changed to New York to Singapore with no additional fees if the requirements are met.
  
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• First Break Made in Search for Colorado Mom Who Vanished on Mother’s Day

  16-05-2020 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities said they’ve found a personal item belonging to a missing Colorado woman—the first break in a fruitless five-day search for the mom-of-two that has so far stumped investigators. Suzanne Morphew, 49, disappeared last Sunday while on a bike ride outside Maysville, Colorado. She was first reported missing by a neighbor that evening. Search crews of more than 100 investigators, eight tracking dogs and four drones, as well as members of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, South
  
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• What is orange wine? Ancient drink gains new popularity

  16-05-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People who see orange wine's bright hue may often assume it will be sweet and light, but winemaker Hardy Wallace said that is far from its actual taste.
  
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• Polish archbishop refers child abuse negligence case to Vatican

  16-05-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Polish Catholic Church's most senior archbishop notified the Vatican on Saturday of a Polish bishop accused of shielding priests known to have sexually abused children.The referral, unprecedented in the deeply religious country, will test procedures introduced by the Vatican last year to hold to account bishops accused of turning a blind eye to child sex abuse.The Vatican is now expected to assign an investigator to the case.
  
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• The return of elite football?

  16-05-2020 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  It wasn't soccer as we usually know it but games were finally played again on Saturday in Germany, bringing high-profile sporting competition back during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Germany's Bundesliga marks soccer's elite return, with changes

  16-05-2020 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  It wasn't soccer as we usually know it but games were finally played again on Saturday in Germany, bringing high-profile sporting competition back during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• A senior Trump administration official said the president rebukes Fauci but supports Birx because 'she is charming and listens to him'

  16-05-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "She has found a way to shut down his bad ideas without making him feel diminished, unlike Fauci and some of the others," one official told CNN.
  
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• President Trump unveils new U.S. Space Force flag while touting new 'super duper missiles'

  16-05-2020 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Space is going to be the future both in terms of defense and offense and so many other things," Trump said. "We're now the leader in space."
  
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• A tourist from New York was arrested after violating Hawaii's self-quarantine orders and documenting the breach on Instagram

  16-05-2020 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 23-year-old from New York City was arrested after locals saw him posting photos of himself around Waikiki tanning and spending time at the beach.
  
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• Puerto Rico to hold statehood referendum amid disillusion

  16-05-2020 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Wanda Vázquez announced on Saturday that she will hold a nonbinding referendum in November to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a U.S. state, a move that comes amid growing disillusion with the island’s U.S. territorial status.For the first time in the island’s history, the referendum will ask a single, simple question: Should Puerto Rico be immediately admitted as a U.S. state?It’s an answer that requires approval from U.S. Congress and a question that outra
  
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• France says coronavirus death toll rises to 27,625

  16-05-2020 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French health authorities reported 96 new coronavirus deaths on Saturday, as the country eases from a two month lockdown.This brings France'stotal to 27,625, the fourth-highest tally in the world, after the United States, Britain, and Italy, and just ahead of Spain.
  
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• House passes $3 trillion relief bill over Republican opposition

  16-05-2020 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reaction from Rep. Denver Riggleman, Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee.
  
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• Arrests at anti-lockdown demonstrations in Warsaw, London

  16-05-2020 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Demonstrations took place Saturday in several European cities against restrictions aimed at controlling the spread of the coronavirus, with tear gas used on protesters in Poland and arrests made at a gathering in London’s Hyde Park.Police in several German cities enforced distancing rules as thousands of people gathered to express a mix of frustrations — at restrictions battering the economy and a perceived loss of civic freedom.The permitted number of 1,000 protesters was reached in
  
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• Rwandan genocide suspect captured in Paris suburb after decades on the run

  16-05-2020 19:15 via cnn.com
  
  One of the last key suspects in the Rwandan genocide has been captured in a Paris suburb after more than 20 years on the run.
  
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• New COVID-19 cases in New York coming from people leaving home, Cuomo says

  16-05-2020 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  State data showed that the number of new cases statewide has fluctuated between 2,100 and 2,500 per day.Cuomo said he theorized last week that new cases were coming from essential workers."The infection rate among essential workers is lower than the general population and those new cases are coming predominantly from people who are not working and they are at home."
  
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• A barber who defied New York's stay-at-home order to give haircuts tested positive for COVID-19

  16-05-2020 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ulster County health commissioner Dr. Carol Smith said that learning of the barbershop's illegal activities was "extraordinarily disheartening."
  
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