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• University of Virginia changes logo to remove reminder of school's link to slavery

  16-06-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A logo for UVA athletics that was unveiled featured a nod to the campus' serpentine walls, which are connected to the university's history with slavery.
  
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• Show me the data: U.S. doctors skeptical of reported COVID breakthrough

  16-06-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Global pressure to find a cure or vaccine has accelerated the process of reporting coronavirus study results, feeding confusion over whether therapies have been proven effective.One influential COVID study was withdrawn this month by respected British medical journal The Lancet over data concerns.Trial results announced on Tuesday showed dexamethasone, used to fight inflammation in other diseases, reduced death rates by around a third among the most severely ill COVID-19 patients admitted to hos
  
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• People of color account for majority of coronavirus infections, new CDC study says

  16-06-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  African-Americans and Latinos are vastly overrepresented when it comes to coronavirus infections, according to an analysis released by the Centers for Disease Control on Monday morning. 
  
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• Brazil is now pushing hydroxychloroquine for pregnant women and kids

  16-06-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  Brazilian health authorities said on Monday they will now recommend hydroxychloroquineto treat children and pregnant women for early treatment of Covid-19, and criticized the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent decision to revoke the emergency use of the drug.
  
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• Trump administration sues Bolton over book dispute

  16-06-2020 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration asked a federal judge on Tuesday to order former national security adviser John Bolton to stop the publication of his upcoming book on his White House tenure, arguing in a lawsuit that Bolton had breached a contract and was risking the exposure of classified information.
  
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• Jordan's king says regional stability put at risk by Israeli annexation

  16-06-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jordan's King Abdulllah warned on Tuesday that Israel's planned move to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank next month would threaten stability in the Middle East.In a video conference with U.S. congressional leaders and committees, Abdullah "warned that any unilateral Israeli measure to annex lands in the West Bank is unacceptable and undermines the prospects of achieving peace and stability in the region," a royal palace statement said.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pl
  
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• Family of Dreasjon Reed, Black Man Killed by Indianapolis Police Officer, File Lawsuit Against City's Police Department

  16-06-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The lawsuit says that the Indianapolis police department did not correctly train officers on how to engage with civilians
  
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• Brazil sees record daily coronavirus cases; official says outbreak under control

  16-06-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil reported a record 34,918 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the same day that one of the senior officials leading the country's widely criticized response to the crisis said the outbreak was under control.Brazil, the world's No. 2 coronavirus hotspot after the United States, is fast approaching 1 million cases, although experts say the true number is likely higher due to patchy testing.Brazil also registered 1,282 COVID-19 deaths since its last update on Monday, the Health Ministry said, b
  
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• Trump administration sues former adviser John Bolton to block his book – live

  16-06-2020 23:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump signs order on police reform while surrounded by law enforcement officialsRiots helped elect Nixon in 1968. Can Trump benefit from fear too?Rayshard Brooks’ death prompts calls for overhaul of police departmentHow US police reforms have failed to stop violenceMan shot as New Mexico protesters try to remove conquistador statueSign up to our First Thing newsletter 10.36pm BST The Trump administration has asked a federal judge to block the publication of former security adviser John Bol
  
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• It's no vaccine, but this is promising

  16-06-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A steroid may reduce COVID-19 deaths, researchers say. PG&E; pleads guilty to manslaughter. Trump signs police order. It's Tuesday's news.
  
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• Australian politics live: consular officials talk to Karm Gilespie, Australian man facing death penalty in China – latest updates

  16-06-2020 23:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Foreign affairs minister Marise Payne says Australian authorities visited the detention centre where the 53-year-old is being held. Follow live 10.35pm BST There are two more sitting days left until the parliament rises for the winter break, and once again, the news dominating the corridors is everything happening outside the chambers.Marise Payne, the most media shy Morrison government minister, delivered a foreign policy speech overnight, where she took aim at China for the spreading of disinf
  
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• ‘History in the making’? Seattle protest zone prompts rethink on policing.

  16-06-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Seattle’s “Capitol Hill Occupy Protest,” originally called the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” has become a focal point amid nationwide protests.
  
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• Tension in Peru amid coronavirus lockdown

  16-06-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tension on the streets of Lima, Tuesday, as riot police tried to remove hundreds of street vendors.Many vendors fought back… but were pulled away despite their efforts.Authorities took the forceful approach amid a nationwide lockdown to combat the country’s coronavirus outbreak.With over 230,000 cases of the virus and over 6,500 deaths in Peru, President Martin Vizcarra on Monday said the crisis was unprecedented.''We knew this disease was going to generate a most serious crisis in
  
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• 20 Indian soldiers dead after clash with China along disputed border

  16-06-2020 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  At least 20 Indian soldiers have died after a "violent face-off" with Chinese troops along the countries' de facto border in the Himalayas late Monday, the Indian army has said.
  
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• What went wrong to spark 'violent face-off'?

  16-06-2020 23:25 via cnn.com
  
  At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed during a "violent face-off" with Chinese troops along the countries' de facto border in the Himalayas, the Indian army said.
  
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• Police fire teargas at largely peaceful healthcare protest in Paris – video

  16-06-2020 23:14 via theguardian.com
  
  French nursing unions called for a national strike to ask for better working conditions and to demand the government keep its promise to overhaul France’s hospital system in response to the coronavirus crisis. Police fired teargas after being pelted with objects by a small minority that overturned a car during the demonstration led by healthcare workersCoronavirus live news: New Zealand records first new cases for weeks as Beijing bans high-risk travellers from leaving citySee all our
  
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• Melissa Zarda Fought for Her Gay Brother at the Supreme Court—and Won a Landmark LGBTQ Rights Victory

  16-06-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Tuesday, Melissa Zarda was dealing with two things at home in Kansas City, Missouri: the loud barking and mischief of her new foster puppy Winnie, a cattle dog/pitbull mix, while—above the din—relishing the hard-fought, historic victory she had just won in the Supreme Court in the memory of her beloved, deceased brother Donald.His was one of three cases featuring LGBTQ people fired for their sexual orientation or gender identity that SCOTUS yesterday ruled, 6-3, were illegal under
  
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• Pence tries to declare outbreak over as cases spike across US

  16-06-2020 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence, the leader of the administration's coronavirus task force, is publicly painting a rosy picture of the pandemic through his words and actions amid President Donald Trump's push to reopen the country and resume campaigning.
  
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• Oklahoma coronavirus rate surges as Trump rally nears

  16-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * State confirmed 591 new cases on Monday, a 7.7% increase* Vice-president will attend Saturday’s election rally in TulsaShortly after the Trump campaign again insisted its first campaign rally since March would go ahead in Tulsa this weekend, it was reported that Oklahoma confirmed 591 new coronavirus cases on Monday, a 7.7% increase and the highest in the US.The news, reported by Yahoo and citing an internal document from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), came
  
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• More victims come forward as allegations of abuse against Oklahoma church grow

  16-06-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Church of the Harvest in Oklahoma City is facing harsh allegations, including physical, mental, and sexual abuse.
  
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• 'She has found her voice': Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms steps into national spotlight amid policing debate

  16-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Atlanta mayor, mentioned as a possible running mate for Joe Biden, has faced her own policing crisis with the shooting of Rayshard Brooks.
  
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• India-China clash: 20 Indian troops killed in Ladakh fighting

  16-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It is the first deadly skirmish in decades between the two regional powers at their disputed border.
  
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• 'Kroger Karen' is going viral for using a stroller to block a Black woman from leaving a grocery store parking lot

  16-06-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shaneeka Montgomery-Strickland live-streamed the incident in which a white woman barred her from exiting a Kroger parking lot.
  
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• First Army Unit Gets New Squad Designated Marksman Rifle

  16-06-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division this month became the first combat troops to receive the Army's new M110A1.
  
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• Trump says a million people have requested tickets to his Tulsa rally, but it could just be because TikTok users are trolling him

  16-06-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TikTok users are calling on people to register for tickets and then not show up, in an attempt to have there be empty seats at Trump's Oklahoma rally.
  
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• Astronauts look ahead to historic ocean landing: We're not nervous

  16-06-2020 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  Veteran NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley arrived at the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon. They speak to CNN Business' Rachel Crane from the ISS about the launch, spacewalks and the journey home.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump on an AIDS vaccine that doesn't exist

  16-06-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Seizing on a medical milestone that doesn't exist, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he thinks the same scientific expertise that produced a vaccine for AIDS can deliver one soon for COVID-19, too.There is no vaccine for AIDS.Trump also accused the previous administration of making no effort to stop abusive policing, ignoring a conspicuous drive by President Barack Obama to do just that.
  
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• Russia's Putin protected from coronavirus by disinfection tunnels

  16-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from thecoronavirus by special disinfection tunnels that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow or meeting him in the Kremlin must pass through, his spokesman said on Wednesday.One such special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company based in the town of Penza, has been installed at Putin's official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow and two more in the Kremlin, said Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman.
  
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• Russia's Putin protected from coronavirus by disinfection tunnel - RIA

  16-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through, the state-controlled RIA news agency reported on Tuesday.The special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company based in the town of Penza, has been installed at his official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow where he receives visitors, it said.The Russian news agency described the disinfectant as a fine cloud of liquid
  
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• Nasrallah says Lebanon should not observe US Syria sanctions

  16-06-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of Hezbollah group on Tuesday said Lebanon should not observe new U.S. sanctions against Syria which he described as deeply hurtful to his country if implemented.Sayed Hassan Nasrallah also blamed the United States for the dollar shortage in Lebanon, saying Washington is preventing the foreign currency from coming into Lebanon and is pressuring its central bank not to inject fresh amounts into the economy.Lebanon is facing an unprecedented confluence of economic and financial crises &md
  
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• Atlanta megachurch pastor apologizes for saying that people might find 'white blessing' more palatable than 'white privilege'

  16-06-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People "miss the blessing of slavery that it actually built up the framework for the world that white people live in and lived in," said Louie Giglio.
  
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• 351 feet worth of controversy: Confederate monument stands tall in this Kentucky town

  16-06-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jefferson Davis' birthplace in Kentucky is a place that waffles on the line of idolizing and preserving a dark chapter in American history.
  
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• Kanye West files trademark for new Yeezy beauty line

  16-06-2020 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  Rapper, fashion designer and potential 2024 presidential candidate Kanye West has his sights on the beauty industry. On June 2, West filed a new trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office under the name of his luxury streetwear brand Yeezy, for a host of new products that include makeup and fragrances; skin, hair and nail care products; face and body glitter; baby wipes; and hair removal cream.
  
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• India-China clash: An extraordinary escalation 'with rocks and clubs'

  16-06-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The deadly border clash could alter the future of the relationship between the two neighbours, say experts.
  
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• What is Juneteenth and how are people commemorating it this year?

  16-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Juneteenth, a portmanteau of June and 19th, also is known as Emancipation Day.It commemorates the day in 1865, after the Confederate states surrendered to end the Civil War, when a Union general arrived in Texas to inform the last group of enslaved African Americans of their freedom under President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
  
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• UK Finance boss resigns as Amanda Staveley high court case continues

  16-06-2020 22:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-Barclays executive Stephen Jones says he apologised over alleged sexist remarks referred to in court documentsThe boss of the banking lobby group UK Finance has resigned just weeks before his alleged sexist remarks about the financier Amanda Staveley are due to be revealed in the high court.Stephen Jones, a senior Barclays executive during the financial crisis who became the first chief executive of UK Finance in 2017, said he had also apologised to Staveley and the body’s staff about t
  
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• Alleged 'Boogaloo' extremist charged in killing of federal officer

  16-06-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Steven Carrillo and his alleged accomplice "came to Oakland to kill cops," said John Bennett, special agent in charge of the San Francisco division of the FBI.
  
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• NYPD boss says 'cut smartly' as defund police drumbeat grows

  16-06-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As chants of “defund the police” thunder at protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, New York City's police commissioner has found himself trying to avoid deep cuts to what has long been among the world's best-funded law enforcement agencies.Over the last three months, the coronavirus crisis has dealt an estimated $9.5 billion blow to New York City’s budget, leading some elected officials to peer closely at police department funding.Last Friday, city council leaders
  
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• Texas Democrats ask Supreme Court to expand mail-in voting

  16-06-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Texas Democratic Party said on Tuesday it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to accept its case seeking to expand vote-by-mail in the state ahead of this year's elections, saying the coronavirus pandemic is likely to discourage turnout at the polls.The move comes after a series of defeats in federal and state courts that upheld Texas law blocking provisions allowing voters to mail their ballots if they fear contracting the virus.Early voting begins on June 29 for the July 14 primary run-offs in Te
  
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• Supreme Court decision 'catalyst' for change: LGBT activists

  16-06-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (New York resident Roger McKinsey): "It's about time, I mean, we are human beings, too, you know what I mean. Why shouldn't we get equal rights just as everyone else?”Supporters of LGBT rights hailed a landmark decision from the Supreme Court, calling it a catalyst for change, but long overdue. (New York resident Drew Ginsburg): "It's right. It should've happened a lot time ago”(New York/Trinidadian resident Wendy Dumas-John): "We've been fighting this fight for so long...it's like i
  
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• Medellín cartel co-founder transferred to Germany after prison sentence

  16-06-2020 22:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Carlos Lehder Rivas ran Medellín cartel alongside Pablo Escobar that smuggled cocaine worth billions to the US in 1970s and 80sThe man who co-founded the notorious Colombian Medellín drug cartel alongside Pablo Escobar has been transferred to Germany from the United States, according to Spiegel Online.Carlos Lehder Rivas, who has both German and Colombian citizenship, was escorted to Germany by two US officials on a regular passenger flight from New York to Frankfurt and handed ove
  
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• AT&T is laying off thousands of workers and shutting down at least 250 stores

  16-06-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AT&T; is cutting 3,400 jobs and closing more than 250 stores as part of its efforts to focus on growth areas and respond to the impacts of COVID-19.
  
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• They came to Canada as essential workers. Hundreds were infected on the job

  16-06-2020 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  Quarantined and alone in a Canadian hotel room, Alvaro was pensive and anxious. He said he wasn't so worried about testing positive for Covid-19, but about the paycheck he couldn't afford to lose.
  
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• Top coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says he hasn't talked to Trump in two weeks

  16-06-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Fauci said attending a protest would be "putting you and others at risk"
  
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• Behind troop cut, bitter spite between Trump and Merkel

  16-06-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has clashed with plenty of US allies.Trump's abrupt announcement that he will reduce US troops in Germany by half to 25,000 -- a decision that has brought concern across NATO -- is the culmination of mounting tensions between the leaders of the Western alliance's two most populous nations.Trump called Germany a "delinquent" to NATO -- a reference to its failure to meet a target of spending two percent of GDP on defense -- and said, "they treat us very badly on trade."
  
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• 'Ghostbusters' cast reunites

  16-06-2020 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  The cast of the 80's classic "Ghostbusters" reunited on Josh Gad's YouTube show and reminisced about unscripted moments and their late co-cast member, Harold Ramis.
  
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• Making history as the NFL's first male cheerleaders

  16-06-2020 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  College and high school cheerleading teams have been co-ed for years. But NFL cheerleaders were always only women (with the exception of some male stuntmen) until 2018. That's the year professional dancers Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies auditioned for the L.A. Rams cheerleading team, made the squad and led the way for other men to follow.
  
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• Black sheriff says shooting of Rayshard Brooks was justified

  16-06-2020 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Georgia sheriff Alfonzo Williams, defends the officers' use of lethal force against Rayshard Brooks, a black man who wasshot while running from police outside of a Wendy's, after resisting arrest.
  
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• Black sheriff defends officers' use of force in Brooks' killing

  16-06-2020 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Georgia sheriff Alfonzo Williams, defends the officers' use of lethal force against Rayshard Brooks, a black man who wasshot while running from police outside of a Wendy's, after resisting arrest.
  
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• He was fired for being gay. Seven years later, his Supreme Court win sent a 'clear message.'

  16-06-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When history is written, Gerald Bostock’s name will grace the landmark case that won LGBTQ people nationwide protection from workplace discrimination.
  
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