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• Democratic Colorado Senate hopeful Hickenlooper apologizes for slave comment

  15-06-2020 23:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  The former governor and presidential candidate told an audience in 2014 that political schedulers were like the people who lashed slaves on a ship to keep them rowing.
  
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• At least 50 cases of coronavirus linked to surgeon flying from New York City to LA

  15-06-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 32-year-old nurse - among at least nine others - died from the coronavirus in April after a retired New York surgeon with the illness was admitted to a high end dementia care facility in Los Angeles.According to the LA Times, the nurse, Brittany Bruner-Ringo, died on 20 April. Since then, more information on the surgeon and the trail of infected individuals left in the wake of his travels have emerged.
  
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• NYPD disbanding anti-crime unit, another officer disciplined

  15-06-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The NYPD announced Monday it is eliminating its anti-crime unit, a group of plainclothes officers who blend in to fight crime but have caused tension in relations with the communities.
  
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• FDA revokes authorization of drug Trump touted for Covid-19

  15-06-2020 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  The Food and Drug Administration has revoked its emergency use authorization for the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for the treatment of Covid-19.
  
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• Two Supreme Court jaw droppers: The LGBTQ decision and you can't believe who wrote it

  15-06-2020 23:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  The irony of Trump's first appointee to the top court authoring a landmark ruling on gay rights.
  
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• 'League wants to be on right side of history' - Wright

  15-06-2020 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Premier League players wearing 'Black Lives Matter' on their shirts shows the league wants to be on the right side of history, says Ian Wright.
  
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• Trump announces major US troop cut in 'delinquent' Germany

  15-06-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Monday he is ordering a major reduction in U.S. troop strength in Germany, a move widely criticized by members of his own party as a gift to Russia and a threat to U.S. national security.The U.S. currently has about 34,500 troops in Germany — far fewer than during the Cold War, when Germany was the central focus of American and NATO efforts to deter invasion by the former Soviet Union.In recent decades, Germany has hosted key American military facilities and pro
  
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• Dispatcher unafraid of being 'snitch' reports Floyd arrest

  15-06-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 911 dispatcher who was apparently watching in real time as a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into the neck of George Floyd called a supervisor to tell him what she saw, not caring if it made her look like a “snitch," according to a recording of the call made public Monday. In the call, the dispatcher calls a police sergeant and says what she was seeing on live video looked “different” and that she wanted to let him know about it. The dispatcher was in a 911 call cen
  
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• Apple claims 'half a trillion dollars' App Store economy

  15-06-2020 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Firm says it only took a cut from a fraction of the trade, but still faces anti-competition scrutiny.
  
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• Man with viral 'Karen' who confronted someone stenciling 'Black Lives Matter' near his own home has been fired from his job at a financial services firm

  15-06-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Robert Larkins, the man with Lisa Alexander, was fired after a video of him confronting someone stenciling "Black Lives Matter" at his own home.
  
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• Trump on coronavirus testing: ‘If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any’

  15-06-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At the White House on Monday, President Trump spoke about testing for the coronavirus in the U.S., saying, “If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
  
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• Giant tortoise Diego, a hero to his species, is home

  15-06-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Diego the giant Galapagos tortoise whose tireless efforts are credited with almost single-handedly saving his once-threatened species, was put out to pasture Monday on his native island after decades of breeding in captivity, Ecuador's environment minister said.Diego was shipped out from the Galapagos National Park's breeding program on Santa Cruz to remote and uninhabited Espanola.
  
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• Coronavirus deaths near 44,000 in Brazil, No.2 global hotspot

  15-06-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil's death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to nearly 44,000 on Monday, according to Health Ministry data, as the country continued easing restrictions on circulation despite the world's second-worst outbreak after the United States.Brazil registered 627 new fatalities on Monday, down from an average of nearly 1,000 over the past week.Although Brazil's official death toll from the pandemic has risen to 43,959, the true impact is likely far greater than the data show, health expe
  
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• New lawsuit opposes plans to remove Lee statue in Virginia

  15-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six property owners along Monument Avenue in Virginia's capital city filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to stop Gov. Ralph Northam's administration from removing a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.Floyd's death has sparked global protests that participants have vowed to turn into a sustained movement focused on addressing racial injustice and police brutality.
  
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• There could be 36 communicating intelligent civilizations in our galaxy, study says

  15-06-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Scientists have calculated that there could be a minimum of 36 active, communicating intelligent civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study.
  
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• Biden campaign and DNC raise more than $80 million in May

  15-06-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's the most the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has raised to date during the 2020 presidential election cycle.
  
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• UN chief takes Saudis off blacklist for harming Yemen's kids

  15-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s government off a global blacklist of parties whose actions have harmed children in conflict, a move that drew immediate protests Monday from human rights groups.The U.N. chief’s annual report to the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict released Monday removed the coalition from a relatively new list of government forces and armed groups “that have put in place measures ... aimed at improv
  
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• U.S. airlines threaten to ban passengers who refuse to wear masks

  15-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As of now, major U.S. airlines may prevent anyone not wearing a mask from boarding and provide the coverings to passengers who have none. Once on board, however, flight attendants have little power to enforce the policy if passengers remove their masks. Carriers implementing the new policy include Alaska Airlines , American Airlines , Delta Air Lines , Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways , Southwest Airlines and United Airlines , Airlines for America said in a statement.
  
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• US officials visit Puerto Rico, oversee hurricane prep

  15-06-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal officials on Monday praised Puerto Rico’s hurricane preparedness and pledged additional help as they reviewed disaster recovery efforts during the start of a weeklong visit to the U.S. territory.Rear Admiral Peter Brown, the island’s federal reconstruction coordinator, said the island is better prepared this hurricane season than the time before Hurricane Maria struck as a Category 4 storm, killing an estimated 2,975 people in its aftermath and causing more than an estimated
  
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• 19-year-old Black Lives Matter activist found dead a week after she went missing

  15-06-2020 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  A 19-year-old Black Lives Matter activist from Florida has been found dead one week after she went missing.
  
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• 'Our police officers are to be guardians and not warriors': Atlanta mayor orders police to deescalate following killing of Rayshard Brooks

  15-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has issued a series of executive orders for her city's police department to "immediately adopt" deescalation procedures following the police killing of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man shot by an officer in a Wendy's restaurant parking lot.Officers have a "duty to intervene" against other officers' use of deadly force, according to her order.
  
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• Coronavirus: Beijing tightens controls amid spike in local cases

  15-06-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Chinese capital has seen 100 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases, the WHO says,
  
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• US state will pay people $1,500 to go back to work

  15-06-2020 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  Idaho will pay jobless residents $1,500 to lure them back to work and off federally enhanced unemployment benefits.
  
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• Watch ex-LAPD sergeant's scathing response to NYPD's change

  15-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  NYPD police commissioner Dermot Shea announced that the NYPD will reassign 600 plain-clothes officers, which closes one of the last chapters of the controversial "stop and frisk" policy.
  
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• Trump's Tulsa rally will look very much unlike CDC guidelines

  15-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Attendees at President Donald Trump's rally scheduled for Saturday will not be required to maintain social distance or wear masks, even as the administration's top public health officials continue to stress the importance of both measures in preventing the spread of coronavirus.
  
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• Trump rally in city seeing spike in cases will have no distancing or mask requirements

  15-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Attendees at President Donald Trump's rally scheduled for Saturday will not be required to maintain social distance or wear masks, even as the administration's top public health officials continue to stress the importance of both measures in preventing the spread of coronavirus.
  
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• See ex-LAPD sergeant's scathing response to NYPD's change

  15-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  NYPD police commissioner Dermot Shea announced that the NYPD will reassign 600 plain-clothes officers, which closes one of the last chapters of the controversial "stop and frisk" policy.
  
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• Coronavirus death rates are much higher for people with chronic illnesses

  15-06-2020 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Patients with underlying conditions were also more likely to be hospitalized.
  
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• The lengths countries go to for a seat at UN top table

  15-06-2020 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Canada, Norway and Ireland are in a tight race for two non-permanent seats on the security council.
  
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• Israel army says targets Hamas infrastructure after rocket fire

  15-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel retaliated by air and tank fire Monday against Hamas positions after rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, the army said.The tensions came after Gaza rulers Hamas called for unity among Palestinians and "resistance" against Israeli plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.
  
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• Travelers accused of breaking quarantine set to leave Hawaii

  15-06-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twenty-one travelers arrested on suspicion of violating Hawaii's coronavirus quarantine order have agreed to leave the state because of threats, a member of the group said Monday.Kendra Carter said some of the harassment involved death threats.Carter wasn't arrested with the others last week because police decided to let her and another woman stay with their children.
  
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• West Virginia sees coronavirus outbreaks in churches

  15-06-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Less than a month after President Trump urged churches to reopen, West Virginia has reported a significant number of coronavirus outbreaks linked to houses of worship.
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Young people under 20 are half as susceptible to Covid-19, new study suggests

  15-06-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'Major breakthrough' as £5 steroid which slashes deaths for most severe Covid-19 patients to be rolled out Coronavirus resistance among children 'primed' by up to 12 common colds per year Deaths in London back to normal levels for first time during coronavirus crisis China reinstates travel curbs to contain 'severe' coronavirus outbreak Prince Charles reveals he lost taste and smell with coronavirus on first royal appearance since lockdown Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month You
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Spain considers quarantine for UK visitors unless Britain drops 14-day policy

  15-06-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two metre rule has no basis, say Oxford University experts Coronavirus resistance among children 'primed' by up to 12 common colds per year Deaths in London back to normal levels for first time during coronavirus crisis Tory MPs rage against the two-metre rule... but would cutting it save our pubs? Corona-cautious or gung-ho… where do you stand on the pandemic Fear-o-Meter? Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month Spain is considering imposing a quarantine on visitors from the Unite
  
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• Under police pressure, France backs off ban on chokeholds

  15-06-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Under pressure from police, the French government backed away Monday from a ban on chokeholds during arrests.France’s interior minister announced a week ago that the immobilization technique would be abandoned, in the face of growing French protests over police brutality and racial injustice unleashed by George Floyd’s death in the U.S.On Monday, the national police director sent a letter to staff, obtained by The Associated Press, saying chokeholds will no longer be taught in police
  
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• Doctors "don't understand" COVID symptoms that linger for months

  15-06-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some "long-haulers" report shortness of breath, cough, headache and other coronavirus symptoms linger for months.
  
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• Former eBay employees allegedly used cockroaches, spiders, and a gruesome mask to harass a couple

  15-06-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Six former eBay employees face charges for cyberstalking and tampering with evidence after, according to federal prosecutors, they harassed a Boston-area couple who ran a news site that was at times critical of the company.
  
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• USAF Pilot Dies After F-15 Crashes Into the North Sea

  15-06-2020 21:59 via popularmechanics.com
  
  It's remains unclear what caused the fatal crash.
  
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• Is the U.S. Naval Buildup in the Pacific a Warning to China?

  15-06-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Beijing had better believe it.
  
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• Whoopi Goldberg lays out the first steps in the fight against systemic racism

  15-06-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Whoopi Goldberg tells Andy Cohen the first steps to fight systemic racism. "People have to first look at people and see them for who they are," she says.
  
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• Fans on big screens and 'celebration cameras' for Premier League return

  15-06-2020 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fans on big screens and celebration cameras are some of the broadcast enhancements that will be used when the Premier League resumes.
  
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• US Air Force’s new Grey Wolf helicopter needs to watch its weight

  15-06-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A congressional watchdog is concerned that weight gain could leave the MH-139 unable to meet speed and range requirements.
  
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• New York City police disband rough street unit amid pressure for reform

  15-06-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Police Department is disbanding its aggressive anti-crime unit, a move aimed at turning alienated residents into crime-stopping allies, part of a nationwide push for policing reforms following the killing of George Floyd.In a major redeployment, the country's largest police force will reassign some 600 plainclothes officers in the anti-crime unit, the target of numerous complaints, to other duties, effective immediately, Commissioner Dermot Shea said on Monday."Make no mistake, this
  
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• The Oscars have been delayed until April 2021

  15-06-2020 21:43 via cnn.com
  
  Film's biggest night is being rescheduled for the first time in 40 years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Amy McGrath faces surprise primary showdown in Kentucky Senate race

  15-06-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amy McGrath is suddenly fending off an insurgent challenger: State Representative Charles Booker with just about a week to go before the primary.
  
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• 'It's just science': Carl Bergstrom's Twitter crusade against coronavirus misinformation

  15-06-2020 21:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  “It never occurred to us that if a pandemic actually broke out, there would be political lines drawn over whether it even existed."
  
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• Bobby Rush: Civil rights veteran says Chicago police union 'stands shoulder to shoulder with KKK'

  15-06-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congressman and civil rights veteran Bobby Rush compared Chicago‘s largest police union to the Ku Klux Klan on Sunday, saying the two organisations “are like kissing, hugging and law-breaking cousins”.In an interview with Politico, the Illinois Democrat said “the number-one cause that prevents police accountability, that promotes police corruption, that protects police lawlessness, is a culprit called the Fraternal Order of Police.”
  
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• Trump to sign police reform executive order on Tuesday

  15-06-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday that will seek to improve how police officers treat African Americans and others by improving credentialing, training and mental health resources, administration officials said.The order comes after Trump has struck a strict "law and order" tone in his response to protests around the country sparked by the death of African American George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis.Trump has faced criticism from Democrats for h
  
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• Lebanon army says arrests dozens after violent protests

  15-06-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Lebanese army said Monday it had arrested dozens of suspects for "vandalism", after days of protests triggered by a plunging local currency amid the worst economic crisis in decades.Hundreds of protesters clashed with security forces at the weekend across the Mediterranean nation, after days of resurgent demonstrations against a ruling class deemed corrupt and impotent in tackling the spiralling crisis."The total number of arrests made by military intelligence between 11 and 15 June in diffe
  
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• Biden and DNC say they raised more than $80 million in May

  15-06-2020 21:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee say they raised more than $80 million in May
  
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