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• Canadian Air Force jet celebrating coronavirus workers crashes into home

  17-05-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The flight was part of “Operation Inspiration,” a nationwide mission aimed at saluting first responders and other essential workers.
  
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• A Canadian Snowbirds aircraft has crashed in British Columbia

  17-05-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  A Canadian Forces Snowbirds aircraft crashed near Kamloops, British Columbia, on Sunday, according to the Canadian Department of National Defence.
  
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• How Many COVID-19 Deaths Are There?

  17-05-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Deborah Birx, the physician advising the White House’s coronavirus task force, gave voice to a real concern earlier this month. She told officials from the Centers for Disease Control that some of its numbers on mortality and case count could be inflated by up to 25 percent. “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” the Washington Post reported Birx saying.We now know more about what she was talking about, since Colorado has become the first state to publish two differe
  
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• Snoop Dogg relieves stress with Disney song

  17-05-2020 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Grammy-award winning artist Snoop Dogg turned heads on social media when he posted himself listening to the song "Let It Go" from the Disney film "Frozen" while hanging out in his car.
  
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• Michael Jordan's signature Air Jordan shoes from 1985 sell for record-breaking price, Sotheby's says

  17-05-2020 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  A pair of Michael Jordan's game-worn shoes from 1985 sold for more than three times the estimated auction price on Sunday, breaking the world auction record for sneakers, according to Sotheby's.
  
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• US Sen. Sasse criticized for jokes in graduation speech

  17-05-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse's attempt at humor during a speech at a Nebraska high school's online commencement — which included jokes about students' fitness and psychologists and also blamed China for the coronavirus outbreak — drew strong criticism.The Republican senator's speech on Saturday was panned by a Fremont High School board member and his Democratic opponent in the November election.Sasse's spokesman, James Wegmann, told the Omaha World-Herald Sunday the senator was joking during
  
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• Fed chairman Powell warns downturn 'may last until late 2021'

  17-05-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said a full rebound may not be possible until a vaccine is made.
  
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• Anti-lockdown protests break out in London, Warsaw, other European cities as coronavirus shutdowns linger

  17-05-2020 23:11 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Amid increasing frustration over lockdown measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic, multiple protests took place across Europe on Saturday to demand businesses reopen.  
  
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• Tropical Storm Arthur takes shape in the Atlantic

  17-05-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Arthur has become the first named storm of the Atlantic season and is expected to hit the North Carolina coast Monday. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano with the latest.
  
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• Bids for rock legend's guitar start at $1M

  17-05-2020 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  A guitar Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana's 'MTV Unplugged in New York' live concert could sell for $1 million.
  
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• CDC 'let the country down' on coronavirus testing: White House

  17-05-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House rebuked the top US health agency on Sunday, saying "it let the country down" on providing testing crucial to the battle against the coronavirus outbreak.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been under intense scrutiny since producing a faulty test for COVID-19 that caused weeks of delays in the US response.Critics have pointed out that it could simply have accepted kits made by the World Health Organization, which has been producing them since late January, instead
  
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• Former FDA official says a widely available coronavirus vaccine is 'more likely a 2021 event'

  17-05-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A vaccine could be ready in the fall of 2020 to perhaps "ring fence an outbreak," Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said.
  
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• Mexico cites virus in slapping down renewable energy

  17-05-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Mexican government has cited the coronavirus pandemic as a justification for new rules that will reduce the role of renewable energies like solar and wind power, granting a reprieve to the government's own ageing, fossil-fuel power plants. The decree over the weekend has sparked outrage among Mexican and foreign investors who had been allowed to sell their power into the government-operated grid. Industry associations said it will affect 28 solar and wind projects that were ready to go onlin
  
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• Mexicans dying from adulterated alcohol as beer runs dry

  17-05-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scores of Mexicans are dying from drinking adulterated liquor, a consequence of the shortage of mainstream alcoholic beverages during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities say. The first of at least 121 deaths in recent weeks occurred at the end of April in the western state of Jalisco, almost exactly a month after the government declared a health emergency over the spread of COVID-19. Much of Mexico has run out of beer after factories producing liquor and beer were shut down, along with other n
  
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• A person received a positive Covid-19 diagnosis the day after attending a Mother's Day service, officials say

  17-05-2020 22:40 via cnn.com
  
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• Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches

  17-05-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Atlas V rocket, carrying the X-37B space plane, launched from Cape Canaveral on Sunday.
  
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• Michael Jordan: NBA legend's trainers sell for record $560,000

  17-05-2020 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Basketball legend Michael Jordan's autographed trainers from 1985 sell for a record $560,000 (£463,000) in an online auction.
  
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• Pompeo warns China over interference with U.S. journalists in Hong Kong

  17-05-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said it had come to his attention that the Chinese government had threatened to interfere with the work of U.S. journalists in Hong Kong, and said any decision impinging on Hong Kong's autonomy could affect the U.S. assessment of Hong Kong's status."These journalists are members of a free press, not propaganda cadres, and their valuable reporting informs Chinese citizens and the world," Pompeo said in a statement.Britain returned Hong Kong to China i
  
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• Lynn Shelton, director of 'Little Fires Everywhere,' dead at age 54

  17-05-2020 22:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Shelton died Friday from a previously unidentified blood disorder, her agent confirmed.
  
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• Pirates fire at tanker off Yemen, shipping company says

  17-05-2020 22:12 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Pirates attacked a tanker off the coast of Yemen, according to the ship's operators.
  
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• Pompeo backs away from theory he and Trump were pushing that coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab

  17-05-2020 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears to be backing away from a theory he and President Donald Trump were pushing that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated at a lab in Wuhan, China.
  
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• Cuomo says nobody should be prosecuted for COVID-19 deaths in N.Y.

  17-05-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of deaths in New York state dropped again on Saturday to 139 people as parts of the state have begun to reopen.
  
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• Boy Scouts and other groups banned from planting American flags on veterans' graves due to coronavirus

  17-05-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone joins ‘America’s News HQ.’
  
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• 'A threat to accountable democracy': Some Republicans object to Trump dismissal of federal watchdog

  17-05-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The President has not provided the kind of justification for the removal of IG Linick required by this law," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
  
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• Canada Snowbirds team jet crashes in British Columbia, report says one crew member dead

  17-05-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Witnesses and officials said earlier that at least one person was injured when the plane crashed after the pilot ejected.Kamloops is about 320 km (200 miles) northeast of Vancouver in the West Coast Canadian province.Global News said the plane had been carrying two crew members, one of whom died and the other survived with injuries.
  
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• Bernie Sanders supporters reluctantly turn to Joe Biden, fueled by their dislike of President Trump

  17-05-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In 2016, 12% of Bernie Sanders supporters backed Donald Trump in the general election. Polls and interviews suggest that number will shrink in 2020.
  
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• WHO's exclusion of Taiwan from coronavirus assembly leads more nations to sound the alarm

  17-05-2020 21:52 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Ally nations have joined the US in rallying to support Taiwan.
  
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• Bayern sinks minnow Union Berlin on Bundesliga resumption

  17-05-2020 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  It was set to be the greatest day in the history of Bundesliga minnow Union Berlin, but instead it was business for usual for seven-time defending champion Bayern Munich and top goalscorer Robert Lewandowski.
  
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• Iran's Khamenei says US will be expelled from Iraq, Syria

  17-05-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that the United States will be expelled from Iraq and Syria and alleged that even Washington's allies "abhor" it now.The US "will not be staying either in Iraq or Syria and must withdraw and will certainly be expelled", said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to his official website.Both the US and Iran have weighed into Syria's conflict -- Tehran backing the Damascus regime, while Washington supported the Kurds against the Islamic State group -- and both have be
  
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• Priest draws squirt gun in fight against coronavirus

  17-05-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Roman Catholic priest in the Detroit area has taken aim at his parishioners in a bid to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, using a squirt gun to shoot holy water.Photos posted on social media by the St. Ambrose Churchshow the Rev. Tim Pelc shooting water into a car window as it stopped by the steps of the church on Easter.
  
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• Cousin of Syria's Assad faces legal action over telecom debt

  17-05-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syria’s telecommunications authority on Sunday said a deadline for a cellular company owned by the cousin of President Bashar Assad to pay back its debts to the state has ended, adding that legal measures will be taken against the company to recover the money.The announcement came hours after Assad’s cousin, Rami Makhlouf, released a new video in which the businessman said he was asked to step down from the leadership of Syriatel, the biggest telecommunication company in the country.
  
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• Government to make major revisions to PPP to give small businesses more flexibility

  17-05-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gene Marks, CPA at The Marks Group, joins ‘America’s News HQ.’
  
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• White House officials clash on whether the CDC 'let the country down' on testing, signaling continued tensions between the agency and Trump administration

  17-05-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The comments are the latest indication that the relationship between the White House and the CDC has soured.
  
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• New York might have avoided becoming the US epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak if Gov. Cuomo hadn't reportedly dismissed shelter-at-home advice

  17-05-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Cuomo reportedly said 'shelter in place' sounded 'like it was in response to a nuclear apocalypse,' and he had no plan of locking down cities.
  
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• The Trump administration has recently moved to oust 4 government watchdogs. Here they are:

  17-05-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  State Department Inspector General Steve Linick joins ousted Intelligence IG Michael Atkinson and Defense IG Glenn Fine. Trump's also nominated a new HHS IG.
  
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• Polls suggest Biden has a clear national lead

  17-05-2020 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  Poll of the week: A new Marquette Law School poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden with a 46% to 43% lead over President Donald Trump in Wisconsin.
  
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• Up to 100,000 cruise workers stranded at sea amid pandemic, report claims

  17-05-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An estimated 100,000 cruise ship crew members are currently stuck at sea amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported on Sunday. Two staff members are known to have taken their own lives by jumping overboard, the Miami Herald said. While passengers on the cruise ships were evacuated by April, many of the crews remain onboard ships docked around the world or anchored off the coast - some without pay. Rockford Weitz, director of the Maritime Studies Program at Tufts University’s Fletcher S
  
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• While Obama calls out 'so-called grown-ups,' Trump administration takes a victory lap

  17-05-2020 20:56 via cnn.com
  
  Barack Obama's harsh criticism of the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic this weekend brought renewed scrutiny of President Donald Trump's leadership, but administration officials defended the response as "historic" Sunday as deaths neared 90,000.
  
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• Iran tankers sailing to Venezuela in effort to undermine US sanctions

  17-05-2020 20:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Iran is seeking to provide aid to Venezuela as both countries struggle under US sanctions.
  
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• Britain backs investigation into origins of coronavirus, amid hopes China will accept independent review

  17-05-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain is backing efforts to establish an World Health Organisation (WHO) investigation into the origins of coronavirus that has so far been blocked by China. The push for an independent inquiry - led by Australia and the EU - is set to be tabled at a meeting of the World Health Assembly tomorrow. The UK is a co-sponsor of the motion that calls for “scientific and collaborative field missions” with the aim of identifying the “source of the virus and the route of introduction t
  
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• Hope Solo’s dog Conan dies after being shot: ‘He fought up until the very end'

  17-05-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Conan, the "best" of her five Dobermans, was shot earlier this week.
  
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• 13 People Shot, With One in Critical Condition, at Louisiana Memorial Service

  17-05-2020 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The memorial service was apparently for Dominique James, who was recently murdered
  
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• Wealthy children will be seven days ahead from home schooling by June, report warns

  17-05-2020 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wealthy children will have received seven days’ worth of additional home learning by the time primary schools begin reopening next month, according to a new report, as Michael Gove warned that poorer students were being left behind. Amid an ongoing row over plans for key year groups to return to the classroom from June1, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that children from better-off households are spending an additional 75 minutes per day on education. If the Governme
  
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• Gov. Cuomo takes Covid-19 test during live briefing

  17-05-2020 20:11 via cnn.com
  
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo got a coronavirus test during his daily news briefing, saying "it is so fast and so easy that even the governor can take this test."
  
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• Trump administration's firing of watchdog designed to protect Secretary Pompeo, Dems say

  17-05-2020 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two top Democrats launched a probe into Inspector General Steve Linick's firing and said it was done to shield Pompeo from an internal investigation.
  
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• HHS Secretary Azar Says America's Disproportionate COVID-19 Death Toll Is Due to Communities With 'Greater Risk Profiles'

  17-05-2020 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Sunday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar blamed America’s outsized number of COVID-19 cases and deaths on the number of U.S. communities that have “greater risk profiles.”
  
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• Bolsonaro snaps photos with children at Brazil protest, defying health advice

  17-05-2020 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wearing a face mask, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posed for photographs with children plucked out of a crowd of supporters on Sunday, disregarding public health advice aimed at containing one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks.Bolsonaro's latest flouting of social-distancing guidelines came after he lost two health ministers in a month, both of whom resisted his fight against quarantines.Brazil's confirmed cases of the virus passed those of Spain and Italy on Saturday, making it th
  
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• Iran Supreme Leader says Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria

  17-05-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran almost got into a full-blown conflict with the United States when a U.S. drone strike killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 3, prompting Tehran to retaliate with a missile barrage against a U.S. base in Iraq days later.Khamenei said Americans' actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria had led to them being hated, according to a transcript of a speech to students published on his website.
  
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• White House adviser accused Obama of working as 'Joe Biden's press secretary' after he criticized the government's COVID-19 response

  17-05-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Obama told 2020 graduates that the pandemic had "finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many folks in charge know what they're doing."
  
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• Health secretary: No spike in coronavirus in places reopening

  17-05-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities are not seeing spikes in coronavirus cases in places that are reopening but are seeing increases in some areas that remain closed, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Sunday.
  
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