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• Chelsea beat Man City to confirm Liverpool as champions

  25-06-2020 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool are crowned champions of England for the first time in 30 years after Manchester City lose to Chelsea.
  
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• Race relations in Wisconsin capital are a tale of 2 cities

  25-06-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In this college town that considers itself a bastion of progressive politics and inclusion, race relations are really a tale of two cities.Demonstrators who toppled statues of figures with no racist history this week say they went after the sculptures because they wanted to shatter a false narrative that the state and the city support Black people and racial equity.“The crowd at large was absolutely conscious of the political motivations,” protester Micah Le told The Associated Press
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's victims can now collect more than $600 million from compensation fund

  25-06-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Victims who endured mental, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of wealthy Palm Beach hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators can now start filing compensation claims against his estate.
  
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• Trump administration opens sensitive Arctic areas to oil development

  25-06-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration on Thursday released its plan to open environmentally sensitive areas in Arctic Alaska to oil development, overturning some protections that go back decades.The plan released by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management revokes an Obama-era management system for a huge swathe of federal land on the western North Slope, the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.The Trump plan, contained in a final environmental impact statement, opens 18.7 million acres of the 23
  
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• Coronavirus: US cases ‘may have topped 20 million’

  25-06-2020 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Health officials say the true number of cases is about 10 times higher than the reported figure.
  
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• Four years after Brexit, support for the EU surges in Britain

  25-06-2020 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Four years on from the UK's Brexit vote, a majority of British voters would now opt to remain inside the European Union, says new research.
  
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• This 'vampire fish' is spawning in Vermont's waters

  25-06-2020 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  The sea lamprey, an eel-like creature colloquially referred to as the "vampire fish" by some publications, provides benefits that outweigh its bite, says Vermont Fish & Wildlife.
  
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• GOP Sens. say they don't understand why federal funds being pulled from testing sites

  25-06-2020 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  Members of the Texas congressional delegation on both sides of the aisle are asking the Trump administration to reconsider its decision to halt direct funding to several coronavirus testing sites in the Lone Star State, where there has been a surge of Covid-19 cases.
  
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• UN Security Council to meet Monday on Ethiopia dam

  25-06-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council plans to meet Monday to discuss Egypt and Sudan's objections to Ethiopia's construction of a mega-dam on the Nile River, diplomatic sources said Thursday.The public video conference was called by the United States on behalf of Egypt, according to the sources.Ethiopia wants to start filling the reservoir for the 475-foot (145-meter) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in July, with or without approval from the two other countries.
  
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• Supreme Court allows quick removal of asylum-seekers

  25-06-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The case represented a crucial test of the Trump administration's effort to speed removal of thousands of migrants without federal court hearings.
  
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• Dreamers, angry with Trump over DACA, ready counteroffensive

  25-06-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “We know that in order to defend immigrants, protect DACA and defend our democracy that Trump must be defeated this November," said United We Dream's Cristina Jiménez.
  
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• Liverpool ends 30 years of agony with English Premier League title

  25-06-2020 23:18 via cnn.com
  
  Liverpool has had to wait longer than anyone could have predicted, but the club can once again call itself the best in England.
  
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• Trump eschews face covering, ignoring Rubio urging that everyone 'wear a damn mask'

  25-06-2020 23:14
  
  President Donald Trump eschews face covering, ignoring Sen. Marco Rubio urging that everyone "wear a damn mask."
  
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• Colorado reexamines Elijah McClain's death in police custody

  25-06-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Colorado governor on Thursday ordered prosecutors to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man put into a chokehold by police who stopped him on the street in suburban Denver last year because he was “being suspicious.”Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order directing state Attorney General Phil Weiser to investigate and possibly prosecute the three white officers previously cleared in McClain's death.McClain's name has become a rallyin
  
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• Beto O'Rourke thinks Texas is 'Biden's to lose'

  25-06-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Although his presidential bid failed to gain traction, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke came within a hair of becoming a senator from Texas in 2018 and performed better than any Democrat in a statewide race in nearly 30 years. 
  
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• Philly police head decries tear gas usage against protesters

  25-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Philadelphia's police commissioner, along with the mayor, apologized to the public Thursday for giving statements that were inaccurate in the days after tear gas, bean bags and pepper spray were used against protesters who were trapped on a highway.At least one high ranking commander took a voluntary demotion, and Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said a member of the city's SWAT team who was seen in videos spraying protesters with pepper spray will be notified Friday that he is suspended with the in
  
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• Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign

  25-06-2020 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport looks at 10 games which have shaped Jurgen Klopp's reign at Liverpool as they celebrate winning the Premier League title.
  
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• £1.47bn spent, 239 players, nine permanent managers - Liverpool's 30-year wait in numbers

  25-06-2020 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport takes a look at the statistics behind Liverpool's 30-year wait to win their 19th top-flight league title.
  
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• NYPD officer charged in swift test of state’s chokehold ban

  25-06-2020 23:10
  
  A New York City police officer who was suspended after putting a man in what authorities said was a banned chokehold now faces criminal charges
  
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• 'He's like a child': Biden attacks Trump's coronavirus response - video

  25-06-2020 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Joe Biden on Thursday travelled to must-win Pennsylvania to attack Donald Trump for what the former vice-president characterised as trying to gut healthcare protections during a pandemic. Biden, who was born in the Pennsylvania rust-belt city of Scranton, has mostly stayed put in his Delaware home in recent months amid coronavirus concerns but has slowly resumed some campaigning. He headed to Lancaster to try to weaken the Republican president's standing with swing-state votersUS news
  
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• 'Godzilla dust cloud' drifts over U.S. Southeast, raising health concerns

  25-06-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 3,500-mile-long (5,600 km) cloud, dubbed the "Godzilla dust cloud," traveled 5,000 miles (8,047 km) from North Africa before reaching the region stretching from Florida west into Texas and north into North Carolina through Arkansas, the National Weather Service (NWS) said."Some of these plumes contain more particles, and right now we expecting a very large plume of dust in the Gulf Coast."
  
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• Liverpool win Premier League: Jurgen Klopp's transformative role

  25-06-2020 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jurgen Klopp is the man behind Liverpool's transformation into Premier League title winners. This is the inside story of how he did it.
  
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• Nascar releases photo of noose found in garage

  25-06-2020 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nascar said it was right to fear a hate crime had been committed against driver Bubba Wallace, which was later dismissed after an FBI investigation.
  
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• Police voted out of schools in Oakland, California

  25-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The board's unanimous vote on Wednesday night to disband the Oakland Unified School District police department, consisting of 10 officers and 57 unarmed security guards, capped years of pressure for dismantlement led by the local activist group Black Organizing Project.Under the newly adopted measure, some $2.5 million in money previously earmarked for school district police would be reallocated toward student-support positions, including social workers, psychologists and other mental or behavio
  
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• Chefs and friends honor Anthony Bourdain's legacy on his birthday

  25-06-2020 22:58
  
  Friends, fans, chefs and travelers remember Anthony Bourdain on his birthday for Bourdain Day to celebrate the Les Halles chef and "Parts Unknown" host.
  
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• NYPD officer charged with strangulation after caught-on-camera incident

  25-06-2020 22:55
  
  NYPD Officer David Afanador was suspended after the June 21 incident was filmed by a bystander and posted on social media.
  
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• The US may have seen 8.7 million coronavirus cases in March alone, new research shows — meaning millions went undiagnosed

  25-06-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus spread far more rapidly across the US in March than scientists initially realized, a study found.
  
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• DeVos issues rule steering more virus aid to private schools

  25-06-2020 22:33
  
  The Trump administration is moving forward with a policy ordering public schools across the U.S. to share coronavirus relief funding with private schools at a higher rate than federal law typically requires
  
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• Triplets diagnosed with Covid-19 after birth. Experts investigate why

  25-06-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Experts are researching a set of premature babies who tested positive for coronavirus after birth in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Dr. Tanya Altmann tells CNN's Brianna Keilar more.
  
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• 'A Karen in the wild': More than $22,000 in donations pour in for a Starbucks employee who refused to serve a customer not wearing a face mask

  25-06-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "She flipped me off, and she said, 'No, I don't need one,' and she started cursing up a storm," Lenin Gutierrez said. San Diego County requires masks.
  
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• NASCAR releases photo of noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage

  25-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Bubba Wallace has done nothing but represent this sport with courage, class and dignity," NASCAR president Steve Phelps said. "It is offensive seeing anyone suggest otherwise."
  
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• Lobbyist Abramoff to plead guilty in cryptocurrency fraud case

  25-06-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Abramoff and Rowland Marcus Andrade, the chief executive of NAC Foundation, were accused of conspiring to make false and misleading statements to potential purchasers of the cryptocurrency.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday announced parallel charges against NAC, Andrade and Abramoff.Abramoff, who once served four years in prison for bribing U.S. officials in a case thatbecame synonymous with government corruption, also agreed to settle with the SEC.
  
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• US Military’s Deployment to the Southern Border Has Been Extended Another Year

  25-06-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Thursday signed off on a new deployment of personnel to the southern U.S. border, a mission to be handled mostly by National Guard members.
  
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• 'Dixie' Chicks no more: As Confederacy loses its luster, bands and brands rush to abandon its symbols

  25-06-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The decision by the Dixie Chicks to change their name follows weeks of demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and is the latest instance of a nationwide move to abandon symbols of the Confederacy, slavery and Jim Crow.
  
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• Lightning kills more than 100 in northern India

  25-06-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PM Narendra Modi said relief efforts were under way and expressed condolences to victims' families.
  
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• White House punts on Israel annexation; more talks planned

  25-06-2020 21:54
  
  President Donald Trump's top national security aides have been unable to reach a decision on whether to support an Israeli plan to annex significant parts of land the Palestinians claim for a future state
  
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• Virus whistleblower alleges retribution has only intensified

  25-06-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A government whistleblower ousted from a leading role in battling COVID-19 alleged Thursday that the Trump administration has intensified its campaign to punish him for revealing shortcomings in the U.S. response.Dr. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, said in an amended complaint filed with a federal watchdog agency that he has been relegated to a lesser role in his new assignment at the National Institutes of Health, unable to lend his fu
  
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• Rep. McCarthy says he’s ‘frustrated’ Democrats told Sen. Scott police reform bill was a ‘token’ approach

  25-06-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy blasts Democrats for blocking GOP police reform bill and tells ‘The Daily Briefing’ Sen. Tim Scott’s speech was from ‘the heart of his life.’
  
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• Top Trump officials and Republicans are encouraging followers to migrate to Parler, an alternative social network beloved by far-right agitators kicked off Facebook and Twitter

  25-06-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to data from Apptopia, Parler has around 1 million lifetime downloads, and had its biggest spike ever in daily installs on Wednesday.
  
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• Brad Parscale, Other Trump Staff in Quasi-Quarantine After Tulsa COVID Cases

  25-06-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump’s reelection campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is one of a group of campaign staffers in quasi-quarantine after he attended a rally in Oklahoma last weekend where eight campaign aides tested positive for the novel coronavirus.Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh announced on a conference call Thursday that, “as a precaution,” staff who made the trip to Tulsa were “working remotely” and would be tested for COVID before returning to work. Asked by The Dai
  
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• No, the Gewehr 43 Was Not a German M1 Garand

  25-06-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Gewehr 43 or G43, a semi-automatic rifle, has erroneously been described as the German’s M1 Garand. However, while both were fine weapons the only thing that the two had in common was that both were semi-automatic.
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Covid-19 found in Spanish wastewater samples collected in March 2019, new study shows

  25-06-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Data: The Covid-19 pandemic is worse now than ever before Bournemouth beach crowds spark fears over UK's 'staycation summer' Intu collapses into administration – live updates Children only experience mild form of virus, European study finds Sweden turns on WHO for saying it had 'significant resurgence' of Covid World round up: France starts mass testing to find virus clusters Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month Spanish virologists have found traces of Covid-19 in a sample of Bar
  
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• Court dismisses motion by Trump's brother to block tell-all book by President's niece

  25-06-2020 21:23 via cnn.com
  
  A judge on Thursday dismissed an attempt by President Trump's younger brother to block the publication of a forthcoming unflattering tell-all book by Mary L. Trump, the President's niece.
  
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• At least 83 people killed during lightning strikes across Indian state

  25-06-2020 21:23 via cnn.com
  
  At least 83 people were killed during lightning strikes in the north-eastern Indian state of Bihar on Thursday, according to the state government.
  
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• Pelosi says the House won't impeach AG Barr: 'Let's solve our problems by going to the polls and voting on Election Day'

  25-06-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "One hundred and thirty one days from now, we will have the solution to many problems, one of them being Barr," Speaker Pelosi said.
  
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• CDC Head Estimates U.S. Coronavirus Cases Might be 10 Times Higher Than Data Show

  25-06-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The estimate is based on wider testing for antibodies, which detect people who have been infected
  
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• Mexican finance minister gets coronavirus, bringing infection close to president

  25-06-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The new coronavirus struck at the heart of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's inner circle on Thursday as Finance Minister Arturo Herrera said he was infected.Herrera, the most high-profile member of the cabinet to test positive for the virus, said he only had "minor" symptoms.One of Lopez Obrador's closest advisors, Herrera was seen in a video standing next to his boss on Monday at the National Palace in central Mexico City where both have their offices.
  
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• NYPD Seeks Suspect In Baseball Bat Attack Outside Home Depot In The Bronx

  25-06-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The NYPD wants the public's help identifying the suspect in a baseball bat attack. According to police, a 34-year-old man was out front of the Home Depot at Bronx Terminal Market at 8:10 p.m. on June 14 when the suspect walked up and hit him on the head with a bat. Katie Johnston reports.
  
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• Denmark's PM cancels wedding to attend EU summit

  25-06-2020 21:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  EU leaders are set to meet on 18 July to discuss a Covid-19 recovery fund.
  
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• McDonald's says it has made more Black millionaires than any other company. But Black franchisees say they face systemic inequality.

  25-06-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McDonald's Black franchisees netted $68,000 less a month, on average, than McDonald's overall franchisee average, as of late 2019.
  
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