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• 'I object to that': Reporter responds to press secretary's personal jab

  22-05-2020 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  A White House reporter fired back at White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany during questioning about President Trump saying he will 'override' governors who do not allow churches and places of worship to remain open.
  
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• Briefing gets heated after press secretary's remark

  22-05-2020 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  A White House reporter fired back at White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany during questioning about President Trump saying he will 'override' governors who do not allow churches and places of worship to remain open.
  
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• Trump just declared houses of worship essential. Mounting evidence shows they're super-spreader hotspots.

  22-05-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump says in-person religious services are essential. But evidence shows they can be hotbeds for coronavirus spread.
  
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• Two regional IS leaders killed in Syria: CentCom

  22-05-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US-led coalition forces and their Kurdish allies the Syrian Democratic Forces killed two regional Islamic State group leaders in a raid in eastern Syria this week, US Central Command announced on Friday.Ahmad 'Isa Ismail al-Zawi and Ahmad 'Abd Muhammad Hasan al-Jughayfi were killed in the May 17 joint raid on an IS position in Deir Ezzor province, CentCom said in a statement.Al-Zawi, also known as Abu Ali al-Baghdadi, was the IS regional leader of North Baghdad, it said, and was "responsible for
  
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• French paraglider films the terrifying moment he gets tangled midair

  22-05-2020 23:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A near-death experience captured on film by an extreme sportsman.
  
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• Trump admin won't require nursing homes to count COVID-19 deaths that occurred before May 6

  22-05-2020 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  The most recent computation by NBC News found that as of May 11 at least 27,000 older Americans who were residents of long-term care facilities had died.
  
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• Trump admin won't require nursing homes to count COVID-19 deaths that occurred before May 6

  22-05-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The most recent computation by NBC News found that as of May 11 at least 27,000 older Americans who were residents of long-term care facilities had died.
  
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• Facing firestorm, Biden recants black Trump voters 'ain't black' remark

  22-05-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House hopeful Joe Biden apologized Friday for telling a black radio host that African-Americans "ain't black" if they are unsure who to support in November's election, sparking accusations of racism.The Democratic Party's presumptive nominee to challenge President Donald Trump made the remark during a spirited and sometimes contentious interview with popular syndicated radio personality Charlamagne Tha God."I have never, ever taken the African-American community for granted," he told membe
  
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• British taxi driver dies from COVID-19 after unruly passenger allegedly spat on him

  22-05-2020 23:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Loved ones of Trevor Belle, 61, believe he was harmed by a fare-dodger who spat on him.
  
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• Federal prison system to begin moving nearly 7K inmates

  22-05-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal Bureau of Prisons will begin moving about 6,800 inmates who have been waiting in local detention centers across the U.S. to federal prisons to avoid jail overcrowding in the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Friday.The inmates will be sent to one of three designated quarantine sites — FCC Yazoo City in Mississippi, FCC Victorville in California and FTC Oklahoma City — or to a Bureau of Prisons detention center.All the inmates who are being moved will be tested for COVI
  
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• Experts Challenge General’s Rosy Forecast for Post-Pandemic Military

  22-05-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The military's readiness for post-coronavirus threats came into question at a defense forum.
  
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• Syrian refugee on frontlines: I work with heroes

  22-05-2020 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  Syrian refugee and award-winning film maker Hassan Akkad shares his experience on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic as a cleaner for the British NHS.
  
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• N.Y. lawmaker says blood bank turned him away 'for being gay'

  22-05-2020 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  As New York faces an acute blood shortage, state Sen. Brad Hoylman said he was not allowed to donate, even though he meets FDA criteria.
  
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• Campus Pride, PFLAG to host virtual Lavender Graduation

  22-05-2020 23:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  LGBTQ students, elected officials, teachers and activists are coming together Saturday for the #LAVGrads ceremony for the class of 2020.
  
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• WHO: South America 'effectively' new epicenter for coronavirus

  22-05-2020 23:19 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The number of daily new cases continues to increase in countries across the continent.
  
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• Unauthorized immigrants who work on America's farms have been deemed 'essential,' but they say they feel expendable

  22-05-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One worker, Carmelita, says she's been working illegally in the country for 13 years picking strawberries, and doesn't feel very "essential."
  
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• NAACP president says Biden cannot take black vote for granted

  22-05-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "You cannot take the African American vote for granted," Johnson said in response to comments made by Joe Biden.
  
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• Italy's restaurants, shops caught between rock and hard place

  22-05-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The reopening of Italy's restaurants, cafes and stores earlier this week brought hopes of a return to normality for many Italians after a punishing two-month coronavirus lockdown.In a sign of further trouble ahead for Italy's economy, many of these establishments remain shut as insufficient funds, new sanitary rules or a lack of clientele represent serious brakes to reopening."Were I to open tomorrow, I wouldn't have one client," said Pietro Lepore, owner of Harry's Bar on Rome's tony Via Veneto
  
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• Opinion: Biden says if you're black and don't vote for him, you're not black. He's right

  22-05-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden was right when he said if black voters don't vote him, they're not black. He just shouldn't have said it.
  
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• China gets 'promising' early results from COVID-19 vaccine trial

  22-05-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Within two weeks of getting the vaccine, some developed so-called neutralizing antibodies, which can block SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
  
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• Dying coral reefs turn vibrant neon in apparent survival effort

  22-05-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Coral reefs on the brink of death are attempting to send a survival signal, via fluorescent neon colors.
  
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• WH faces pushback for claiming reporters want churches closed

  22-05-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump on Friday urged U.S. states to allow the reopening this weekend of places of worship that have been closed due to the coronavirus, and warned he would override governors who do not do so.At a short appearance in the White House briefing room, Trump said he was declaring that places of worship - churches, synagogues and mosques - are providing essential services and thus should be opened as soon as possible.Places of worship have been closed as part of stay-at-home orders most states have u
  
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• FBI director orders internal review of Michael Flynn investigation

  22-05-2020 22:52 via cnn.com
  
  FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was criticized earlier this month by President Donald Trump following a review of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's case, on Friday announced he has ordered an internal review of the investigation.
  
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• Trump still hasn't taken his annual physical and it's starting to get weird

  22-05-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's aversion to taking his annual physical is starting to get … a little weird. It has now been six months since the president claims to have "started" his routine physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, NBC News reports, with Trump saying in early March that he is simply "too busy" to do the second part. But even his process is mysterious, since physicals aren't typically conducted in multiple stages over the course of several months.There is plenty of rea
  
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• U.S. veterans agency has given hydroxychloroquine to 1,300 coronavirus patients

  22-05-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has treated 1,300 coronavirus patients with the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which a study has tied to an increased risk of death, according to a document released by a Senate Democrat on Friday.Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who received the information from the VA in response to questions he submitted on the issue, said he was "deeply troubled" by the data.President Donald Trump has long urged use of hydroxychloroquine against coronavir
  
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• US to sanction nine Chinese entities for rights violations

  22-05-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Department of Commerce said Friday it would sanction a Chinese government institute and eight companies for human rights abuses against Uighurs and other minorities in China's western Xinjiang region."These nine parties are complicit in human rights violations and abuses committed in China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur Auto
  
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• Biden apologizes for saying African Americans 'ain't black' if they back Trump reelection

  22-05-2020 22:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  A top adviser had said the former vice president's comments were made "in jest."
  
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• 11-year-old girl says racism behind white woman’s assault

  22-05-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An 11-year-old African American girl from South Carolina said she didn't think a white woman who accused her of stealing mail was being racist until the woman's husband told the girl that if she were “a different type,” things would have turned out differently.Elizabeth Shirey, 38, was charged with assault and battery after grabbing Skhylur Davis' arm as she walked back to her grandmother's house in Aiken with her mail, according to a police report.When Shirey saw the address on the
  
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• Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade let go by lawyer

  22-05-2020 22:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Douglas Wigdor says he continues to believe allegationReade says then senator Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993The lawyer representing Tara Reade, who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, said on Friday he was dropping her as a client although he continued to believe in the truth of her allegations. Related: Coronavirus US live: Trump demands churches, synagogues and mosques reopen 'right now'Continue reading...
  
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• Coronavirus live news: South America is now pandemic's epicentre, says WHO

  22-05-2020 22:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Madrid and Barcelona to ease lockdown as Spain’s death toll stays under 100 again; 660,000 people forced to flee homes during crisis despite UN global ceasefire callHydroxychloroquine: Trump’s ‘cure’ increases deaths, global study findsChechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov ‘hospitalised with suspected Covid-19’US coronavirus updates – liveCoronavirus latest: at a glance 9.38pm BST Peru has extended its state of emergency until the end of June with only a very pa
  
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• Biden apologizes for being 'a wise guy' with 'you ain't black' comment

  22-05-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden has quickly recognized his big Friday morning mistake.While closing out an interview with Charlamagne tha God on The Breakfast Club, Biden declared that "you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or [President] Trump, you ain't black." A whole lot of people unexpectedly found Biden's comment racist and offensive, and by Friday afternoon, Biden had acknowledged he "shouldn't have been such a wise guy.""Perhaps I was much too cavalier," Biden said in a F
  
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• In public, Trump bashed Fox. Behind closed doors, he had a friendly chat with its top correspondent

  22-05-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  During his motorcade ride to a Ford Motor plant in Michigan on Thursday, President Trump ripped into his favorite network, Fox News, for having "garbage" people on the air.
  
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• Covid-19 appears to attack placenta during pregnancy, study says

  22-05-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  A small study of 16 pregnant women who tested positive for Covid-19 found evidence of injury to the placenta, the organ that acts as the gut, kidneys, liver and lungs for a fetus during pregnancy.
  
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• Moderna execs dumped nearly $30M of stock after news of promising coronavirus vaccine

  22-05-2020 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  Moderna's stock price skyrocketed as much as 30% on Monday after the biotech company announced promising early results for its coronavirus vaccine. As ordinary investors piled in, two insiders were quietly heading for the exits.
  
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• Why HBO's 'Justice League' infamous Snyder cut won't be able to fix this turkey

  22-05-2020 22:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  To the extent that "Justice League" says anything, it says that an individual hero like Zack Snyder can't save anything on his own.
  
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• FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered an internal review of the Michael Flynn investigation

  22-05-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The review will look at whether current employees engaged in "misconduct" while investigating Michael Flynn, the FBI said in a statement.
  
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• UK PM Johnson's close aide Cummings broke lockdown rules: newspapers

  22-05-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's closest adviser, Dominic Cummings, travelled more than 400 km from his London home after showing symptoms of coronavirus, breaking the government's lockdown rules, the Guardian and Mirror newspapers reported on Friday.Cummings, a polarising figure in Britain since he masterminded the successful campaign to leave the European Union in 2016, travelled to Durham in northern England in late March, when a strict lockdown was already in place, the reports said.A
  
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• Cohen: Dr. Birx didn't answer the question

  22-05-2020 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Elizabeth Cohen responds to Dr. Deborah Birx's comments about a new hydroxychloroquine study during a White House press briefing.
  
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• CNN reporter: Dr. Birx didn't answer the question

  22-05-2020 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Elizabeth Cohen responds to Dr. Deborah Birx's comments about a new hydroxychloroquine study during a White House press briefing.
  
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• FBI launches internal review of Michael Flynn investigation; inquiry to focus on possible misconduct

  22-05-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered an internal review of the Michael Flynn investigation; the inquiry will examine possible misconduct.
  
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• Tara Reade's qualifications as an expert witness come under fire

  22-05-2020 22:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  In at least one trial, the Biden accuser appears to have misrepresented her educational qualifications, according to a transcript reviewed by NBC News.
  
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• US presses advancing Libya government to end fighting

  22-05-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday pressed Libya's Turkish-backed government for a ceasefire and criticized the flow of weapons as Tripoli pushes back against a year-old rebel offensive.Pompeo placed a phone call to Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj to "reiterate US opposition to the continued level of weapons and munitions being brought into the country," the State Department said.Pompeo and Sarraj "emphasized the importance of an immediate halt to the fighting and return to political dia
  
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• Trump deems places of worship 'essential,' claims he can order their reopening

  22-05-2020 22:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The president did not say what legal authority he had to force churches to open if governors object.
  
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• Trump deems places of worship 'essential,' claims he can order their reopening

  22-05-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president did not say what legal authority he had to force churches to open if governors object.
  
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• Jerry Sloan, Jazz coach who led team to finals, dies at 78

  22-05-2020 22:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sloan, whose teams twice lost to the Chicago Bulls, died from complications of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia.
  
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• Kayleigh McEnany: Trump and the CDC have laid out a clear path for churches to reopen

  22-05-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany discusses the topic of President Trump overriding governors who will not allow houses of worship to reopen amid coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Man who recorded Arbery's killing tried to 'confine and detain' him, warrant says

  22-05-2020 22:06 via cnn.com
  
  A man who recorded the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia was arrested in part because investigators believe he used his vehicle to try to "confine and detain" Arbery in the minutes leading to Arbery's death, an arrest warrant says.
  
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• Black Americans are in an abusive relationship with the Democratic party

  22-05-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An offensive comment by the Democratic presidential candidate is a reminder that black people – all people – deserve better than Joe BidenI am very tired of Joe Biden. My vote for him was already hanging by a thread before his disastrous interview with Charlamagne tha God on Friday. Interrupting the Breakfast Club host’s explanation that black people needed assurances that our communities will benefit from his presidency, Biden asserted: “If you’ve got a problem fig
  
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• Saudi declares Eid al-Fitr to start on Sunday

  22-05-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, will begin on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, authorities in the kingdom said on Friday."Saturday will be the last day of the sacred holy month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr will take place on Sunday," the royal court and the supreme court said, quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency.Religious authorities in Jerusalem, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Libya and Lebanon also said that Eid would begin on Sunda
  
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• Coronavirus and culture: 'Some good things will come out of this'

  22-05-2020 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Travel restrictions from Covid-19 have made seasonal traditional practices – and being on country – difficult for one Tasmanian artist
  This is the final part of a series about Indigenous caretakers of culture in the time of coronavirusSign up for Guardian Australia’s daily coronavirus emailDownload the free Guardian app to get the most important news notificationsLola Greeno collects delicate, pearlescent shells she turns into jewellery, the way Tasmanian Aboriginal women have
  
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