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• Global coronavirus deaths top half a million

  28-06-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The death toll from COVID-19 reached half a million people on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in some countries even as other regions are still grappling with the first wave.The respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus has been particularly dangerous for the elderly, although other adults and children are also among the 500,000 fatalities and more than 10 million reported cases.While the overall rate of death has
  
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• 28 family members test positive for coronavirus

  28-06-2020 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  60-year-old Vidal Garay died after contracting the coronavirus and at least 28 family members have tested positive. CNN's Paul Vercammen spoke with Garay's son Richard about the impact the virus has had on the family.
  
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• California orders bars closed in seven counties as coronavirus surges

  28-06-2020 23:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom also recommended that bars shut down in nine other counties.
  
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• Four men were charged for trying to tear down a statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House

  28-06-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jackson owned at least 95 slaves at his Tennessee plantation and brought some of them with him to the White House.
  
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• Don't blame Sharia for Islamic extremism -- blame colonialism

  28-06-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Warning that Islamic extremists want to impose fundamentalist religious rule in American communities, right-wing lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have tried banning Sharia, an Arabic term often understood to mean Islamic law. These political debates – which cite terrorism and political violence in the Middle East to argue that Islam is incompatible with modern society – reinforce stereotypes that the Muslim world is uncivilized. They also reflect ignorance of Sharia, which is not a
  
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• Minneapolis police chief, mayor launching policy changes

  28-06-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Minneapolis police chief and mayor on Sunday began their push for sweeping policy changes with a new rule that prevents officers involved in using deadly force from reviewing body camera footage before completing an initial police report.The new standards come after a proposal by the Minneapolis City Council to dismantle the police force following the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed Black man who died after a white police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly eight mi
  
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• Coronavirus death toll surpasses 500,000 worldwide

  28-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The staggering milestone comes as virus cases have surged in the U.S. in recent weeks, and as South America has emerged as a virus hotspot.
  
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• In contrast to Trump, Pence encourages wearing masks to prevent coronavirus spread

  28-06-2020 22:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  "We encourage everyone to wear a mask in the affected areas," Pence said. "Where you can't maintain social distancing, wearing a mask is just a good idea."
  
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• Pence changes course: 'Wearing a mask is a good idea'

  28-06-2020 22:44 via cnn.com
  
  During an appearance with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Dallas, Vice President Mike Pence made a push for wearing a face mask to protect from coronavirus after months of not publicly doing so. CNN's Sarah Westwood has more.
  
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• Possibly 12 suspects wanted in Newark, Delaware assault: Police

  28-06-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspects were described as at least six, and possibly up to twelve, males in their late teens or early twenties, according to police.
  
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• Louisville: Man in custody after shooting at Breonna Taylor protest

  28-06-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A shooting at a Louisville protest over Breonna Taylor left one man dead and a suspect in hospital.
  
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• The zoo from 'Tiger King' is being investigated after photos appear to show lions infested with maggots and flies

  28-06-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The photos taken at the Oklahoma zoo were made public by the animal rights campaign group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
  
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• Schiff: Bolton could have made a difference, but he chose to make a profit with his book

  28-06-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bolton provides new evidence that Trump flagrantly abused power and confirms our central impeachment charge that Trump put his interests above America's.
  
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• Suspect in custody in fatal shooting at a Louisville park during protests over the killing of Breonna Taylor

  28-06-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  A man was fatally shot at a park in Louisville, Kentucky, where peaceful protesters have been gathering to demand justice for the killing of Breonna Taylor.
  
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• Suspect charged with murder in fatal shooting at a Louisville park during protests over the killing of Breonna Taylor

  28-06-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  A suspect has been charged with murder after the fatal shooting Saturday of a man at a park in Louisville, Kentucky, where peaceful protesters have been gathering to demand justice for the killing of Breonna Taylor.
  
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• New Yorkers who travel to Florida, Texas, and other states with high COVID-19 infection rates will lose paid sick leave benefits

  28-06-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and Texas all currently have positive test rates higher than 10%.
  
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• British PM Boris Johnson does pushups as he preps UK recovery plan, claims he's 'fit as a butcher's dog'

  28-06-2020 21:49 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The prime minister displayed his physical health in response to criticisms and rumors of poor health.
  
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• California orders bars in LA, other counties to close due to COVID surge

  28-06-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The order from the state's governor comes as the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 500,000 on Sunday night.
  
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• Spanish village makes its own rainbow after council's gay pride flag banned

  28-06-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When police ordered a local mayor in southern Spain to take down a rainbow flag put up to celebrate gay pride on Friday because it was illegal, more than 300 households in the village rallied to the cause and flew their own flags.By the time gay pride celebrations took place in Spain on Sunday, the Andalusian village of Villanueva de Algaidas near Malaga was awash with flags hanging from balconies, windows and even a bar in solidarity.Juan Civico, Socialist mayor of the village of 4,000 inhabita
  
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• Louisville shooting: At least one person killed in Jefferson Square Park where Black Lives Matter protests held

  28-06-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People have been gathering in the downtown park to protest Breonna Taylor's death and police brutality.
  
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• FA Cup: Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal reach semifinals

  28-06-2020 21:38 via cnn.com
  
  The FA Cup semifinals feature a familiar quartet.
  
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• Trump struggles as furor grows over reported Russian bounty offer to kill U.S. troops

  28-06-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House says Trump wasn't briefed on intelligence about Russian offer of bounty payments. If so, that shows negligence, some Republicans say.
  
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• Ship Hunters: The Air Force Wants to Sink Your 'Battleship'

  28-06-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Subsonic or supersonic, ship-hunting bombers appear set to play a major role in the naval warfare capabilities of China, Russia, and the United States into the mid-twenty-first century.
  
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• 17 officers disciplined in death of transgender woman at Rikers Island

  28-06-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said four officers, including one captain, faced immediate suspension without pay.
  
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• Missile hit near convoy of ex-Lebanon PM Hariri, report says

  28-06-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A missile exploded earlier this month near the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri while he visited a mountainous area in the eastern Bekaa Valley, a Saudi-owned TV station reported Sunday.The blast reportedly occurred some 500 meters (yards) away from Hariri's motorcade on June 17.Hariri was returning from a visit to the top Sunni cleric in the Bekaa valley, days after sectarian tensions and rare clashes in Beirut sparked by Lebanon's ongoing economic and financial crisis, the
  
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• Republican senator sees effort this week to revive police reform debate in U.S. Congress

  28-06-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. lawmakers will try this week to revive efforts to enact police reform legislation in Congress, a Republican senator said on Sunday, after moves to address police misconduct following the death of George Floyd deteriorated into partisan bickering.Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate and author of a Republican reform bill that Democrats blocked last week, said he will meet in coming days with lawmakers who crafted sweeping Democratic legislation that passed the House of
  
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• Headteachers may refuse to fine parents who keep children at home in September

  28-06-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Headteachers have threatened to undermine the Government's plan to reopen schools in September by refusing to punish parents who keep their children at home. Teaching unions said many would use a loophole in the law to avoid levying fines on parents failing to send their children to classes. Some headteachers, however, urged the Government to tighten the rules to ensure that parents without a valid excuse are fined for the non-attendance of their children. It comes amid widespread fears that con
  
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• HBO's Golden State Killer doc examines both the killer and the true crime fanatic

  28-06-2020 20:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Since the release of "I’ll Be Gone in the Dark," the shortcomings of true crime have caused a needed soul-searching about whose cases we follow and why.
  
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• Fact check: CDC did not add flu and pneumonia cases to its COVID-19 death count

  28-06-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Facebook post falsely claimed the CDC admitted adding influenza and pneumonia deaths to its COVID-19 death count.
  
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• New Yorkers who visit states with high COVID-19 infection rates will be ineligible for sick leave

  28-06-2020 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an order Saturday stripping paid sick leave for New Yorkers who voluntarily travel to high-risk states after June 25.
  
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• 'As bad as it gets': Pelosi, Democrats take aim at Trump over Russian bounty intelligence

  28-06-2020 19:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  "And yet the president will not confront the Russians on this score, denies being briefed," Pelosi said on ABC's "This Week."
  
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• Lebanon summons US ambassador over Hezbollah criticism

  28-06-2020 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lebanon's foreign ministry has summoned the US ambassador over remarks criticising Hezbollah, a day after a judge slapped a controversial ban on local media covering her statements, state media said Sunday.Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti "has summoned US ambassador Dorothy Shea for a meeting tomorrow (Monday) at 15:00 (12:00 GMT) in light of her latest statements", the state-run National News Agency reported.In an interview with Saudi-owned news channel Al-Hadath aired on Friday, Dorothy Shea said
  
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• Canadian detainee's wife 'disappointed' Trudeau rules out swap with China

  28-06-2020 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The wife of one of two Canadians imprisoned in China said Sunday she is "disappointed" by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's refusal to consider a swap for a detained Huawei executive facing extradition to the United States.Trudeau firmly rejected appeals that he intervene in the extradition proceedings against Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, in order to win the release of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
  
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• Robert Jenrick under fresh pressure after whistleblower claims he ignored pleas to block Westferry project

  28-06-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Robert Jenrick has found himself under fresh pressure, after a whistleblower claimed he ignored pleas from senior officials to block the controversial Westferry printworks project. The Housing Secretary reportedly overruled objections from civil servants and lawyers to greenlight Tory donor Richard Desmond’s £1 billion development in January, with one source saying he showed “total disregard” for the law. Mr Jenrick had weeks earlier watched a promotional video for the lu
  
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• 'Window is closing' for US to get coronavirus under control, Trump's HHS secretary warns

  28-06-2020 19:28 via cnn.com
  
  Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned Sunday that the "window is closing" for the United States to get the coronavirus pandemic under control, as confirmed cases are surging in a majority of the country and some states are dealing with record numbers of hospitalizations.
  
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• Priti Patel says Labour MPs who accused her of 'gaslighting black people' were being racist

  28-06-2020 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Priti Patel has said Labour MPs who accused her of attempting to "gaslight" black people in her response to Black Lives Matter protests were "racist" in their views of her. Ms Patel clashed with a group of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) Labour MPs after they accused the Tory politician of using her Indian heritage to cast doubt on black communities' experience of racism in the UK. The Cabinet minister had previously told the 33 MPs who wrote to her that she would "not be silenced" by th
  
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• Video appears to show gunman opening fire at Louisville, KY park protest

  28-06-2020 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dramatic video appears to show the gunman shooting near peaceful protesters who gathered in the park.
  
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• Trump news: President praises ‘great people’ shouting ‘white power’ as Pelosi brands his alleged inaction over Russia-Taliban reports ‘as bad as it gets’

  28-06-2020 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has praised “great people” in footage he shared of furious protesters clashing over his presidency outside a Florida retirement home, in which one apparent supporter repeatedly shouts “white power” from a golf buggy.The only black Republican senator Tim Scott urged him to remove the “indefensible” footage, which he later did. The White House claimed he did not hear the racist chant.
  
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• Saharan dust cloud hits Southern states in U.S. already struggling with coronavirus surge

  28-06-2020 19:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Florida in particular faces a greater risk from the dust as the state experiences record-breaking coronavirus numbers, its ICU capacity under 25 percent.
  
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• These masks do more than prevent coronavirus

  28-06-2020 19:12 via cnn.com
  
  See how innovators are improving face masks so that preventing coronavirus is not the only thing they do. CNN's Michael Holmes has the story.
  
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• Gottlieb expects COVID deaths to rise again amid "major epidemics"

  28-06-2020 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gottlieb said the coronavirus is likely to spread to more vulnerable communities, resulting in more deaths.
  
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• Suspect in killing at Louisville protest in custody

  28-06-2020 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspect arrested in the shooting death of a man during a Louisville protest over the police killing of Breonna Taylor had taken part in demonstrations but was disruptive and had been asked by other protesters to leave, authorities and protesters said Sunday.The man, identified by an arrest citation as Steven Nelson Lopez, was hospitalized and being interviewed by homicide investigators about the shooting that happened late Saturday, interim Louisville Police Chief Robert Schroeder said at a
  
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• HHS Sec. Azar says 'window is closing' to curb coronavirus spike

  28-06-2020 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Health and Human Services Secretary said "individuals need to act responsibly" to slow the spread, including social distancing and "face coverings."
  
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• Health Department Investigating Potential COVID-19 Exposure At Drive-In Graduation Ceremony In Westchester County

  28-06-2020 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ordering state health officials to investigate potential coronavirus exposure in Westchester County, after someone who attended a drive-in graduation ceremony for Horace Greeley High School students tested positive for COVID-19. CBS2's Nick Caloway reports.
  
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• Lazarus Chakwera sworn in as Malawi president after historic win

  28-06-2020 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lazarus Chakwera says he feels like the biblical character of the same name who rose from the dead.
  
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• GOP Senator Urges Trump to Publicly Wear Mask: ‘Would Be a Sign of Strength’

  28-06-2020 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) implored President Donald Trump to publicly wear a mask on Sunday in order to cool the politicization of mask-wearing, appealing to the president’s vanity in the process.With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations surging across the nation and states pulling back on reopening their economies, Alexander was asked by CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday morning about the president’s resistance to symbolically embrace a basic safety protocol.“You, I
  
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• Connecticut and Rhode Island are the only 2 states where coronavirus cases are declining as the virus surges in the US

  28-06-2020 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Meanwhile, at least 36 states have seen a surge in new cases, and the US has reached a record 2,510,337 confirmed cases.
  
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• South Korea struggles with new spikes, but WHO disputes claim of 'second wave'

  28-06-2020 18:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The country was touted as a prime example early during the pandemic, but has stumbled with a return to normal.
  
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• Coronavirus: UK 'on knife edge' ahead of lockdown easing, scientist warns

  28-06-2020 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A government scientist says he is "worried" about a surge in cases when pubs and restaurants reopen.
  
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• Pence cancels campaign events in Florida and Arizona as coronavirus cases spike

  28-06-2020 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A campaign spokesperson said the cancellations were "out of an abundance of caution" as cases climb in Florida and Arizona.
  
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