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• Colonial slave trader statue torn down amid global protests

  07-06-2020 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Activists in Bristol, England, tore down a statue of 17th century slave owner Edward Colston as protests around the world continued in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. CNN's Max Foster reports.
  
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• Floyd's death spurs 'Gen Z' activists to set up new D.C. rights group

  07-06-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jacqueline LaBayne and Kerrigan Williams met for the very first time in person on Wednesday, at a sit-in they organized in front of the U.S. Capitol over the death of George Floyd.Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes."We spotted each other via a mutual friend's thread on Twitter immediately following yet another police-executed murder," said Williams, a 22-year-old black woman who moved to Washington fr
  
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• Forrest Fenn confirms $1m treasure chest found in Rocky Mountains after decade-long hunt

  07-06-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The decade-long hunt for a treasure chest containing $1m (£790,000) in gold and jewels has ended with its discovery in the Rocky Mountains.Art dealer Forrest Fenn sparked the search for the loot after publishing clues pointing to its location in his 2010 autobiography “The Thrill of the Chase.”
  
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• Black Lives Matter co-founder explains what 'defund the police' actually means

  07-06-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The demand is a major step that combines rerouting funds from police departments and redistributing duties within community groups.
  
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• British man in Bali rescued after six days trapped in well with broken leg

  07-06-2020 23:28
  
  Jacob Roberts, 29, fell four metres into the pit after being chased by a dog, but was rescued when a farmer heard his cries for helpA British man who spent six days trapped in a well after being chased by a dog has been rescued on the Indonesian island of Bali, authorities said on Sunday.A rescue team lifted 29-year-old Jacob Roberts from the four-metre-deep concrete pit after a farmer in Pecatu village raised the alarm. Continue reading...
  
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• AG Barr says pepper spray 'is not a chemical irritant.' But the company that makes pepper-spraying balls says otherwise.

  07-06-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to PepperBall company, their products contain "a proprietary chemical irritant that's proven more effective from even greater distances."
  
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• James Bennet resigns from New York Times after Cotton op-ed backlash

  07-06-2020 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  The editor of The New York Times' editorial page, James Bennet, has resigned, publisher A.G. Sulzberger announced Sunday. Bennet's resignation comes after the publication of a controversial op-ed from Republican Sen. Tom Cotton earlier in the week drew significant criticism, including from dozens of the newspaper's staffers.
  
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• Biden to meet with George Floyd's family before funeral

  07-06-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden plans to travel to Houston to meet with the family of George Floyd and will provide a video message for Floyd's funeral service.A Biden aide on Sunday described the plans of the Democratic presidential candidate.Biden expects to give the family his condolences, said the aide, who discussed Biden's plans on condition of anonymity.
  
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• Trump drifts from constitution, former military chief warns

  07-06-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colin Powell, who served as America's top military officer and top diplomat under Republican presidents, said Sunday he will vote for Democrat Joe Biden, accusing Donald Trump of drifting from the US constitution and Republicans of failing to hold him accountable.In a scathing indictment of Trump on CNN, Powell denounced the US president as a danger to democracy whose lies and insults have diminished America in the eyes of the world.
  
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• Fact check: It is not a felony for Virginia concealed-carry permit holders to wear masks

  07-06-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Online confusion about state law on face coverings included how a state of emergency affected rules about concealing one's identity.
  
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• Coronavirus news and updates: Global deaths top 400K; US officials urge demonstrators to get tested; New York to allow in-person graduations

  07-06-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Global deaths top 400,000. U.S. officials urge demonstrators to get tested. NY to allow in-person graduations. The latest coronavirus news.
  
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• Banksy unveils art in support of Black Lives Matter

  07-06-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  The anonymous artist shared new artwork and a statement on Instagram in light of recent civil rights protests worldwide.
  
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• National Weather Service confirms tornadoes in Orlando area

  07-06-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Video of the tornado shared on social media showed a funnel cloud leaving a path of destruction.
  
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• US Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for NYPD to be defunded

  07-06-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The call to defund police departments in the wake of the George Floyd protests has support from a high-profile voice in the US House of Representatives.New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voiced her support for reducing and redirecting police department funds as a way to address systemic racism and excessive use of force in law enforcement agencies.
  
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• Naval Academy alumni board member resigns after accidentally broadcasting racial slurs

  07-06-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scott Bethmann resigned from his position Saturday after a video broadcast him and his wife speaking about the Black Lives Matter movement with racist comments and racial slurs.
  
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• Taylor Townsend says she gets mistaken for other black players

  07-06-2020 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  American Taylor Townsend says she regularly gets mistaken for female black players like Venus and Serena Williams and Coco Gauff.
  
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• Embattled NY Times Opinions Editor James Bennet Resigns After Staff Revolt

  07-06-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Times opinion editor James Bennet on Sunday announced that he has resigned, effectively immediately, following an internal revolt over Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” column published last week.The newspaper announced that Katie Kingsbury, will step in as an interim opinion page editor through the election; and that Bennet’s deputy editor Jim Dao is being reassigned back to the newsroom.In a statement, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said: &ldqu
  
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• Embattled NY Times Opinion Editor James Bennet Resigns After Staff Revolt

  07-06-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Times opinion editor James Bennet on Sunday announced that he has resigned, effectively immediately, following an internal revolt over Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” column published last week.The newspaper announced that Katie Kingsbury will step in as an interim opinion page editor through the election; and that Bennet’s deputy editor Jim Dao is being reassigned back to the newsroom.In a statement, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said: &ldquo
  
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• UK crowd tears down statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston, throws it in harbor

  07-06-2020 21:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Protesters in Bristol, England, took matters into their hands and tore down the statue of a slave trader, then threw the statue into the harbor.
  
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• The monument of a 17th century slave trader was ripped down to loud cheers as protests continue across the world

  07-06-2020 21:51 via cnn.com
  
  US protests have only gotten bigger | Floyd protests in photos
  
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• Tropical Storm Cristobal to make landfall in Louisiana after spawning tornado in Orlando

  07-06-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Cristobal is set to make landfall in Louisiana late on Sunday with the potential to cause widespread flooding as heavy rains batter the Gulf Coast.The storm has already spawned a tornado in Central Florida and more could form in parts of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi as Cristobal moves northwards.
  
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• Banksy shares new artwork supporting Black Lives Matter and says it's on white people to fix systemic racism

  07-06-2020 21:38 via cnn.com
  
  Banksy, perhaps the most well-known anonymous artist and social critic in the world, is showing his support for the Black Lives Matter movement with a new piece of art and a stark message: "People of Colour are being failed by the system."
  
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• 80% of Americans feel that the country is 'out of control' these days, new poll finds

  07-06-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll comes amid protests over George Floyd's death, more than 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, and an uncertain economy.
  
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• Protesters tear down statue of 17th century slave trader

  07-06-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  As the protests continued in the United States for a second week in response to the killing of George Floyd, people around the world began to stand up with them. From London to Pretoria to Sydney, people took to the streets to express the need for police reform and racial equality. Many held signs that read "Black Lives Matter," while others kneeled. At some protests, marchers stood in silence for the amount of time Floyd struggled to breathe while police officers detained him.
  
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• Black Lives Matter protests spread across the world

  07-06-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  As the protests continued in the United States for a second week in response to the killing of George Floyd, people around the world began to stand up with them. From London to Pretoria to Sydney, people took to the streets to express the need for police reform and racial equality. Many held signs that read "Black Lives Matter," while others kneeled. At some protests, marchers stood in silence for the amount of time Floyd struggled to breathe while police officers detained him.
  
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• 'Trump is tearing apart America': how the world sees the US protests

  07-06-2020 21:28
  
  The racial tensions in the US have emboldened both President Trump’s allies and his enemiesThe images of troops facing off against protesters on US city streets has brought back bad memories for Ana María Careaga.The Argentinian psychoanalyst was 16 and pregnant when she was kidnapped in mid-1977 by the military dictatorship. Careaga was tortured but survived. Her mother, Esther de Careaga, a close friend of Jorge Bergoglio, the Jesuit who would later become Pope Francis, was hersel
  
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• Democrats' legislation would overhaul police accountability

  07-06-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats are proposing to overhaul legal protections for police, create a national database of excessive-force episodes and ban police choke holds in legislation coming Monday in response to the deaths of black Americansat the hands of law enforcement, according to a draft outline obtained by The Associated Press.“We’re in a real moment in our country,” Rep. Karen Bass, D-Ca., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,"
  
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• Angola's probe of dos Santos 'improper and unfair': lawyer

  07-06-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A court order that froze assets of Angola's billionaire former first daughter Isabel dos Santos was "unfair, improper" and based on fake documents, one of her lawyers has said.Dos Santos, said to be the wealthiest woman in Africa, is accused of diverting billions of dollars from Angolan state companies during her father Jose Eduardo dos Santos's near four-decade rule of the oil-rich African nation.Last December, a civil court in the capital Luanda issued a "preventive" order to freeze her busine
  
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• India's bodybuilders flex muscles, call for gyms to open

  07-06-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gym owners and trainers in several Indian cities held protests over the weekend against a ban on opening fitness centres over fears of spreading the coronavirus, even as many lockdown restrictions are set to ease."We are running in losses for last three months and there is no clarity when the government plans to open the gyms," Amritsar Gym Owners Association's president, Dharminder Verma, told AFP on Sunday.Gym owners were still paying rent and staff salaries despite being shut, Verma said.
  
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• U.S. sees biggest rallies yet for racial justice

  07-06-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Demonstrations are planned across the U.S. on Sunday, spilling into smaller communities and marking nearly two weeks of protests since the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.In Washington D.C., tens of thousands of people rallied at the Lincoln Memorial then marched to the White House on Saturday in the biggest protest yet. Protestor: “It feels like I get to be a part of history and a part of people who are trying to change the world for everyone.” The
  
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• Treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains finally found

  07-06-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables worth more than $1 million and hidden a decade ago somewhere in the Rocky Mountain wilderness has been found, according to a famed art and antiquities collector who created the treasure hunt. Forrest Fenn, 89, told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Sunday that a man who did not want his name released — but was from “back East” — located the chest a few days ago and the discovery was confirmed by a photograph the man s
  
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• Tropical Storm Cristobal path moving closer to Gulf Coast; landfall expected today

  07-06-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Cristobal was expected to make landfall Sunday along the Louisiana coast with flooding rain, dangerous storm surge and blustery winds.
  
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• Disney World's resort hotels return June 22 from COVID-19 shutdown: Here's what to expect

  07-06-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Disney Resort hotels are reopening on June 22, a few weeks ahead of the return of Walt Disney World on July 11. Here's what to expect if you visit.
  
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• Amid pandemic, Iran doubles down on social media 'modesty,' arrests hundreds

  07-06-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As authorities in Iran crack down on social media users, young people are mired not only in a pandemic but also a growing cultural battle.
  
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• Indian actor Chiranjeevi Sarja dies after heart attack

  07-06-2020 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  Chiranjeevi Sarja, a famous Indian actor, has passed away at the age of 39.
  
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• Democrats grapple with U.S. protesters' demand to defund the police

  07-06-2020 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Democrats have largely embraced the activists packing into streets nationwide to decry the killings of black men and women by law enforcement but so far express wariness at protesters' calls to defund the police.Senator Cory Booker said during an interview Sunday on NBC News that he understood the sentiment behind the "defund the police" push but would not use that phrase."We are over-policed as a society," he said, adding that spending on police departments was not solving problems.
  
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• Storm Cristobal slows advance, dropping heavy rains on Louisiana

  07-06-2020 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Cristobal on Sunday slowed its advance through the Gulf of Mexico, bringing a coastal storm surge, high winds and rain to southeast Louisiana, where it is expected make landfall later today.The storm was about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, at 1 p.m. on Sunday and moving at north at about 5 miles per hour.It is not expected to become a hurricane but will drop up to 12 inches (30 cm) of rain in some areas as bands move through the central and eastern Gulf Coas
  
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• Quarantine policy to be decided in court as 500 travel and hospitality firms attempt to stop restrictions

  07-06-2020 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson’s quarantine policy is set to be decided in court with more than 500 travel and hospitality businesses expected on Monday to join a legal bid by airlines to reverse the restrictions. A new group called Quash Quarantine, which includes major names such as hotelier Sir Rocco Forte, will announce how it plans to stop the policy in its tracks, with options including backing a judicial review or seeking its own injunction. They claim the quarantine rule — which comes into fo
  
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• Not just George Floyd: Police departments have 400-year history of racism

  07-06-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From slave patrols to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter social justice movement, police departments have long been seen as anti-black.
  
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• Emmett Till's lynching ignited a civil rights movement. Historians say George Floyd's death could do the same

  07-06-2020 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many protesting the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have invoked the name of Emmett Till, who was lynched in 1955, to demand change.
  
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• Werder Bremen, the Bundesliga's longest-serving club, faces relegation

  07-06-2020 20:14 via cnn.com
  
  Werder Bremen, the team with the most seasons in the Bundesliga, is facing the drop after a 1-0 home defeat to Wolfsburg Sunday in a match that featured another show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
  
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• India sends 'man-eater' tiger to lifetime in captivity

  07-06-2020 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A tiger blamed for killing three people will spend the rest of its life in captivity, Indian officials said Sunday, saying the big cat was "too dangerous" to be allowed to roam free.The five-year-old male predator, also blamed for attacking cattle, had embarked on a trek more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) long from western Maharashtra state to central India's Betul district in Madhya Pradesh state in 2018."We gave it several chances to re-wild but it habitually went into human habitations," Ma
  
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• Colin Powell rebukes Trump

  07-06-2020 19:56 via cnn.com
  
  • Colin Powell says he will vote for Biden
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• Colin Powell says Trump rhetoric 'dangerous for our democracy,' will vote for Biden

  07-06-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colin Powell, a retired four-star Army general, joins a growing list of former senior military officials who have denounced Trump
  
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• 'Just the beginning': voices from the Black Lives Matter protest in London – video

  07-06-2020 19:52
  
  Thousands of protesters gathered outside the US embassy in London on Sunday to show solidarity with demonstrators in America, where protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis continued into a second weekend. Crowds in the UK capital shouted slogans in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, calling for action to end racism and prejudice. Ministers face backlash after claiming Britain is not racistGeorge Floyd protests: latest coverage Continue readin
  
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• Iran says it is ready for more prisoner exchanges with U.S.

  07-06-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael White, a U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran since 2018, was freed last Thursday as part of a deal in which the United States allowed Iranian-American physician Majid Taheri to visit Iran - a rare instance of U.S.-Iranian cooperation.White’s release came two days after the United States deported Sirous Asgari, an Iranian professor imprisoned in the United States despite having being acquitted of stealing trade secrets.
  
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• Colin Powell: Trump lies 'all the time'

  07-06-2020 19:44 via cnn.com
  
  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell told Jake Tapper on Sunday that he will be voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
  
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• Brazil stops releasing Covid-19 death toll and wipes data from official site

  07-06-2020 19:40
  
  Government accused of totalitarianism and censorship after Bolsonaro orders end to publication of numbersCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Brazilian government has been accused of totalitarianism and censorship after it stopped releasing its total numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths and wiped an official site clean of swaths of data.Health ministry insiders told local media the move was ordered by far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, himself –
  
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• Norway landslide sweeps 8 houses into sea, dog swims to safety

  07-06-2020 19:35 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A powerful landslide in Arctic Norway was captured in dramatic footage Wednesday as eight houses and a dog were swept into the sea and disappeared beneath the churning waters.
  
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• US Attorney General Barr says there is racism in US but denies that 'the law enforcement system is systemically racist'

  07-06-2020 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Barr joins other administration officials, including HUD Secretary Ben Carson and national security adviser Robert O'Brien, who made similar comments.
  
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