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• Germany scrambles to contain coronavirus outbreak at slaughterhouse; more than 1,300 infected

  22-06-2020 23:56 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Germany is scrambling to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus linked to a large slaughterhouse where more than 1,300 people have tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• Democrats say U.S. withdrawal from Open Skies Treaty may be illegal

  22-06-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senior U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday accused President Donald Trump's administration of violating the law when it declared his intention last month to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty.In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mike Esper, the Democrats said the administration had not given the legally required 120 days' advance notice to Congress before beginning the withdrawal process.
  
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• 27-year-old charged in toppling of North Carolina Confederate monument in Raleigh

  22-06-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 27-year-old activist has been charged in Friday's toppling of the Confederate monument in Raleigh.
  
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• As Confederate Statues Come Down, It's Worth Remembering That the Civil War Wasn't the Only American Conflict Involving Slavery

  22-06-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More important, more direct and much less well-publicized was the impact of slavery in instigating the American Revolution
  
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• 1 city, 1 voting place: Kentucky braces for lines in primary

  22-06-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With only one polling place designated for Louisville on Tuesday, voters who didn't cast mail-in ballots or show up early could face long lines in Kentucky's primary election, the latest to unfold in a pandemic that has triggered unprecedented election disruptions across the country.The outcome of a competitive Democratic U.S. Senate primary could hang in the balance if Election Day turnout is hampered in Louisville — the hometown of Charles Booker, who has mounted a strong late challenge
  
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• Ousted U.S. prosecutor refused to sign letter blasting coronavirus limits on religious gatherings

  22-06-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shortly before Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman was forced out of his post on Friday, he refused to sign off on a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice blasting New York City’s mayor for imposing social-distancing rules on religious gatherings, a department official confirmed on Monday.The letter, which was signed by the department's top civil rights attorney, criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio for limiting the number of people who could attend religious gathering
  
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• FCC orders radio station in Mexico to halt broadcast of Chinese programs to U.S.

  22-06-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FCC said the broadcast studio is used by Phoenix Radio, a company wholly owned by Phoenix TV, but not listed as an applicant.The FCC rejected the request as "deficient" but said the applicants - and Phoenix Radio - could refile the request.
  
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• Why everyone who works for Donald Trump should be *very* nervous right now

  22-06-2020 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  The list of things that make President Donald Trump the maddest goes something like this:
  
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• These 9 hand sanitizers may contain a potentially fatal ingredient, FDA warns

  22-06-2020 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  The US Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to use hand sanitizer products manufactured by Eskbiochem SA due to the potential presence of a toxic chemical.
  
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• Trump attacks mail-in voting with new series of false claims

  22-06-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President suggests foreign countries will print millions of ballots and send them to votersDonald Trump launched a fresh attack on mail-in voting on Monday, making a series of false allegations to suggest the 2020 election will be tainted by fraud.The president has been advancing untrue claims about mail-in balloting for months, fueling concerns he is laying the groundwork to contest the results of the 2020 election.On Monday, he put forward a new theory, claiming that foreign countries would pr
  
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• 'We can mute that line': State Department cuts off reporter trying to ask about Bolton's book during censorship briefing

  22-06-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a briefing on Chinese propaganda, the State Department's spokeswoman muted a reporter who tried to ask about John Bolton's explosive new book.
  
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• Russian Tanks Show Up for Parade, Proceed To Destroy City Streets

  22-06-2020 23:13 via popularmechanics.com
  
  Even a relatively light tank will chew up asphalt roads.
  
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• 'Like gasoline and fire': Former friend speaks out about Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell

  22-06-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I saw him as the hand and her as the puppet on that hand," Melanie Gibb said. "They were both like gasoline and fire. Not a good match."
  
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• Houston 'moving fast in the wrong direction,' mayor says

  22-06-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mayor Sylvester Turner teed up a response to Gov. Abbott calling Texas' rate of spread "unacceptable."
  
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• Police in, then out, as Georgia hate crimes bill moves ahead

  22-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an abrupt turn, Republicans in the Georgia Senate removed protections for police from hate crimes legislation on Monday night, just days after adding them in over the objection of civil rights groups and Democrats.First responders were removed as a protected class from the bill by the Senate Rules Committee after lawmakers said they struck a deal between parties.Calls for Georgia to remove itself from the list of four U.S. states without a hate crimes law have grown following the death of Ahm
  
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• Premier League team condemns 'White Lives Matter' banner flown over stadium

  22-06-2020 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Burnley has strongly condemned a "White Lives Matter Burnley" banner that was flown by a small plane over the Etihad Stadium ahead of their English Premier League match against Manchester City on Monday.
  
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• More Trump staffers who attended Tulsa rally test positive

  22-06-2020 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  Two staffers who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus, Trump's campaign said Monday.
  
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• Americans Need to Know the Truth About William Barr's Friday Night Massacre. We Can't Afford to Wait

  22-06-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  William Barr said Geoffrey Berman resigned before saying the President should
  
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• Trump says Americans will get another round of stimulus payments if Congress can pass another relief deal

  22-06-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Now it's on Congress to pass another round of relief for the White House to sign. There's no word yet on what that package might include.
  
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• Study: Antibody levels in recovered COVID-19 patients decline quickly

  22-06-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Levels of an antibody found in recovered COVID-19 patients fell sharply 2 to 3 months after infection for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, according to a Chinese study.
  
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• Teddy Roosevelt statue at entrance of New York's Museum of Natural History to be removed

  22-06-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reaction from Alveda King, Fox News contributor and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
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• 2 Trump campaign staffers who were at the president's Tulsa rally tested positive for COVID-19

  22-06-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least eight staffers who were involved in President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday have tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• 9 hand sanitizers may contain toxic methanol, FDA warns

  22-06-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Methanol can be toxic when ingested or applied to the skin.
  
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• Peru indigenous leaders push quick Amazon protection vote, defying oil industry

  22-06-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peru's indigenous leaders have been lobbying lawmakers to pass a bill to declare swathes of virgin Amazon rainforest off limits to outsiders, but they fear opposition by the oil industry may scupper a rare opportunity to secure a vote this week.With concerns growing that the coronavirus pandemic could devastate remote communities, Congress is considering whether to fast track a bill which would restrict access to a string of indigenous territories near the border with Ecuador and Brazil.Advocate
  
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• 'Off-the-charts warm': Siberian town hits 100 degrees

  22-06-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The milestone comes as Siberia — and the Asian continent as a whole — have experienced unusually warm conditions since the start of 2020.
  
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• Keilar confronts Trump campaign official: Are dead Americans funny to you?

  22-06-2020 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar confronts Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh about President Donald Trump's recent comments about coronavirus testing that he made at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  
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• CNN anchor confronts Trump campaign official: Are dead Americans funny to you?

  22-06-2020 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar confronts Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh about President Donald Trump's recent comments about coronavirus testing that he made at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  
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• Saudi Arabia will strictly limit number of Hajj pilgrims

  22-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Saudi Arabia will strictly limit the number of people who can take part in this year's Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca because of the coronavirus, according to state-run media.
  
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• Saudi Arabia bans international Hajj pilgrims

  22-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Saudi Arabia will strictly limit the number of people who can take part in this year's Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca because of the coronavirus, according to state-run media.
  
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• More than 1.8 million people traveled from abroad to perform Hajj last year. That number this year will be zero

  22-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Saudi Arabia will strictly limit the number of people who can take part in this year's Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca because of the coronavirus, according to state-run media.
  
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• Trump extends limits on some work visas through 2020

  22-06-2020 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration is introducing a series of new restrictions on visas that allow immigrants to temporarily work in the United States, marking the latest effort to bar the entry of immigrants to the country.
  
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• Trump opens door to another round of stimulus checks, direct deposits

  22-06-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president said in an interview the amount would be "generous" but didn't put a dollar figure on it.
  
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• Two staff members who attended the rally test positive for coronavirus, in addition to six announced previously

  22-06-2020 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  Two staffers who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus, Trump's campaign said Monday.
  
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• Trump's helicopter 'walk of shame' widely mocked online following Tulsa rally

  22-06-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump was caught on camera looking “deflated” on his way back from his disappointing first campaign rally in three months since the outbreak of coronavirus on Saturday, and the Internet noticed.The rally, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, proved to have a disappointing turnout with just over 6,000 people turning up to the event at the 19,000 capacity BOK arena.
  
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• New trend in US Covid-19 infections prompts warnings

  22-06-2020 22:22 via cnn.com
  
  The major thrust of new coronavirus cases in the United States is in the South and West, where officials say more young people are ignoring social distancing measures and testing positive.
  
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• White House defends Trump's use of racist term for coronavirus

  22-06-2020 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is defending President Donald Trump's recent use of the term "kung flu" to refer to the coronavirus at a rally over the weekend, insisting that it isn't racist.
  
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• Brazilians flock to beach as WHO says country undercounting coronavirus surge

  22-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil reached more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases and 50,000 deaths over the weekend as throngs of people swarmed Rio de Janeiro beaches, but the World Health Organization said on Monday that even more cases were likely going uncounted.Brazil's health ministry said on Monday that an additional 21,432 confirmed cases of the virus and 654 new deaths had been registered in the previous 24 hours.A day earlier, swimmers and sunbathers packed Rio's famous beaches, with many neither wearin
  
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• Joel Schumacher, director of Batman movies and 'St. Elmo's Fire,' dead at 80

  22-06-2020 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  Joel Schumacher, an eclectic director whose career ranged from a pair of divisive Batman movies to "St. Elmo's Fire," died Monday after a year-long battle with cancer, a representative for Schumacher told CNN. He was 80.
  
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• Batman director dies at age 80

  22-06-2020 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  Joel Schumacher, an eclectic director whose career ranged from a pair of divisive Batman movies to "St. Elmo's Fire," died Monday after a year-long battle with cancer, a representative for Schumacher told CNN. He was 80.
  
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• Remains found believed to be missing 20-year-old woman

  22-06-2020 22:13
  
  Six months after a 20-year-old woman vanished in Oregon, her remains may have been recovered.
  
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• Apple is overhauling the iPhone homescreen

  22-06-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  Apple is about to offer a glimpse at new software — and maybe even some hardware — for its biggest products.
  
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• CNN Anchor Corners Trump Campaign Spox: Are Dead Americans ‘Funny to You?’

  22-06-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN anchor Brianna Keilar took Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh to task on Monday, repeatedly pressing him to defend Team Trump’s claim that the president was just “kidding” when he claimed over the weekend that he asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing.During his sparsely attended Tulsa rally on Saturday night, President Donald Trump told his supporters that he called on officials to slow COVID-19 testing in order to decrease the number of
  
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• Authors at J.K. Rowling's literary agency quit over company's refusal to speak out on transgender rights

  22-06-2020 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  Four authors signed to the same literary agency as "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling have resigned in protest at its refusal to make a statement voicing its commitment to transgender rights.
  
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• Scientists May Have Solved Mystery Surrounding Moon's 'Far Side'

  22-06-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scientists say they’ve gained insights into why there are significantly fewer dark surface features on Moon’s “far side” than they are the side that faces Earth.
  
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• Bolton just revealed what Donald Trump doesn't grasp

  22-06-2020 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  • Source: Kushner and Ivanka 'pissed' at campaign manager over crowd size
  • Analysis: 1,798 words that prove how obsessed Trump is with the West Point ramp
  • K-pop fans are being credited with helping disrupt Trump's rally. That's not a surprise
  
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• Trump administration extends visa ban to non-immigrants

  22-06-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration on Monday extended a ban on green cards issued outside the United States until the end of the year and added many temporary work visas to the freeze, including those used heavily by technology companies and multinational corporations.The administration cast the effort as a way to free up jobs in an economy reeling from the coronavirus.The ban, while temporary, represents a cut to legal immigration on a scale that had eluded the administration before the pandemic.
  
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• It’s Hard to Find a Trump Who Hasn’t Voted by Mail

  22-06-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump went postal on Twitter Monday morning over the threat he claims mailed ballots pose to the integrity of U.S. elections—but his family seems to have never gotten the message.The commander in chief fired off another social media fusillade against the practice of submitting ballots through the post, which he has previously labeled “horrible,” “terrible,” and “corrupt,” as well as “dangerous,” “fraudulent,” and
  
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• Biden to participate in three debates with Trump

  22-06-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden's campaign is also calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to explain how it plans to hold the in-person debates scheduled for September and October, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Joel Schumacher, director of 'St. Elmo’s Fire' and 'The Lost Boys,' dies at 80

  22-06-2020 21:38
  
  Joel Schumacher, the director behind "St. Elmo's Fire" and "The Lost Boys," has died at the age of 80 after a year-long battle with cancer.
  
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• White House offers new explanation for firing Manhattan U.S. attorney

  22-06-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The circumstances surrounding the termination of Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has raised questions from congressional Democrats.
  
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