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• An 8-year-old organized a Black Lives Matter march for kids. Here's what happened.

  01-07-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
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• An 8-year-old boy organized a Black Lives Matter march for kids. Hundreds showed up.

  01-07-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  The cries for racial equality have been heard across the world as thousands of protesters rallied after the death of George Floyd. But at one protest in Missouri, the calls for change were coming from a much younger demographic.
  
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• F-16 Fighter Pilot Dies After Crash in South Carolina

  01-07-2020 23:47 via popularmechanics.com
  
  The incident is the fifth fighter jet crash—and the second fatal one—in six weeks.
  
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• 6-year-old dog is second in U.S. to test positive for COVID-19, GA health officials say

  01-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials said the dog’s owners had also come down with the virus.
  
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• McConnell warns Democrats about changing Senate rules to kill the filibuster

  01-07-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Senate GOP leader spoke as some experts believe there's a fair chance his party could lose control of the chamber in November.
  
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• Judge deals setback to key Trump policy limiting asylum

  01-07-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge has knocked down a cornerstone border policy of the Trump administration that denies asylum to people who travel through other countries to reach the U.S.-Mexico border without first seeking protection in those countries.U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that authorities violated federal rule-making procedures by not seeking public feedback before putting the policy into effect in July 2019.The impact of Kelly's ruling is diminished by a coronavirus pandemic-related measure
  
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• Coronavirus updates: California reimposes shutdowns; virus death toll may be 35% higher than known in U.S.

  01-07-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WHO chief: 'worst is yet to come.' D.C. grudgingly hosting fireworks bash as President Donald Trump, mayor at odds. Latest COVID-19 news Wednesday.
  
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• Arizona tells Pence it needs additional 500 healthcare workers as COVID-19 cases soar

  01-07-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Arizona Governor Doug Ducey told Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday that the state needed an additional 500 healthcare workers as the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to set records there.
  
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• Arizona tells Pence it needs additional 500 health care workers as COVID-19 cases soar

  01-07-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey told Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday that the state needed an additional 500 health care workers as the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to set records there.
  
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• More than 400 US Army paratroopers flew almost 5,000 miles to practice a long-range Pacific island invasion

  01-07-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The drill "demonstrated that we are capable of deploying anywhere in the US Indo-Pacific Command area at a moment's notice," a commander said.
  
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• McGrath raises Russia bounty issue in Kentucky Senate race

  01-07-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Taking the offensive after her narrow primary win, Democratic Senate nominee Amy McGrath challenged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to disclose what he knows about intelligence assessments suggesting Russia offered bounties for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan.McGrath, a former Marine pilot, tweeted Wednesday that she's “disgusted that nothing's been done" in response to the assessments and demanded McConnell “man up and tell the truth."“Mitch, you get regular security
  
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• China takes aim at 4 US media companies, demanding staff, business info

  01-07-2020 23:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  China has demanded information regarding staff and business operations from four major U.S. media outlets in retaliation to the U.S. government previously requesting similar information from China state owned media agencies.
  
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• 28 major 'Harry Potter' movie deaths, ranked from least to most heartbreaking

  01-07-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here's how each character died, and why some think the fantasy film series gave characters like Cedric Diggory and Severus Snape an unfitting end.
  
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• California Gov. Enacts Further Reclosure of Some Businesses

  01-07-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most counties are being ordered to immediately reclose indoor spaces, like restaurants and movie theaters, as the coronavirus spread grows.
  
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• Five days of death as Covid-19 strikes an indigenous community in Brazil

  01-07-2020 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  More than a dozen members of Brazil's indigenous Xavante people have recently died of coronavirus symptoms, adding fuel to fears that the virus would hit the country's indigenous populations hard.
  
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• Trump's resistance led intel agencies to brief him less and less on Russia

  01-07-2020 23:00 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's resistance to intelligence warnings about Russia led his national security team, including those who delivered the President's Daily Brief to brief him verbally less often on Russia-related threats to the US, multiple former Trump administration officials who briefed Trump, were present for briefings and who prepared documents for his intelligence briefings tell CNN.
  
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• With 'Partial Human Remains' Found in Texas, Family of Missing Soldier Vanessa Guillen Say They Believe She Is Dead

  01-07-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An attorney for the family missing solider Vanessa Guillen said during a press conference that they "believe that her remains were found"
  
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• R. Kelly Appeals Judge's Repeated Rulings Denying Him Release On Bond

  01-07-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After striking out in three attempts to convince a federal judge in New York to release him from jail due to the COVID-19 pandemic, indicted singer R. Kelly is now taking a swing in a federal appeals court, arguing the judge's "medical conclusions are poor at best." Katie Johnston reports.
  
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• June's most popular face masks, fans and more

  01-07-2020 22:40
  
  Home gym equipment, personal fans and UV sanitizers are just a few of the in-demand products readers gravitated toward in June.
  
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• Dead Suspect in Disappearance of Fort Hood Soldier Sexually Harassed Her: Lawyer

  01-07-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A military officer who died by suicide after being confronted about his involvement in Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s disappearance allegedly walked in on her showering, her family’s lawyer said Wednesday. The incident is one of two alleged instances of sexual harassment Guillen, a 20-year-old Private First Class stationed in Fort Hood, Texas, experienced at the hands of her superiors before she went missing from the base’s parking lot in April, Natalie Khawam, an att
  
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• Couple married for 53 years dies of COVID-19 an hour apart

  01-07-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Their son said it was a thoughtful ICU nurse who decided to bring the couple together one last time.
  
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• Vatican summons U.S., Israeli envoys over West Bank annexation moves

  01-07-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Vatican statement on Wednesday said meetings with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's secretary of state, and U.S. Ambassador Callista Gingrich and Israeli Ambassador Oren David, took place on Tuesday.A senior diplomatic source told Reuters that Parolin met the two envoys separately, a detail which was not clear in the Vatican statement.
  
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• US President is stoking racial tensions and alienating moderate swing voters whose views on race have evolved

  01-07-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  On Monday, President Donald Trump went after attempts to strip the names of racists from buildings.
  
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• The rate of positive coronavirus tests is increasing. Here's a state-by-state breakdown.

  01-07-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The rate of positive coronavirus tests is increasing, mostly in states with an uptick in cases.
  
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• Italy keeps coronavirus pandemic under control, but many staying home to be safe

  01-07-2020 22:27 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Italy, one of the countries hardest-hit by COVID-19, is back to work, but it’s a very different place.
  
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• Trump Says Coronavirus Will Just ‘Disappear,’ Brags He Looks Like ‘Lone Ranger’ in Mask

  01-07-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With coronavirus cases surging to all-time highs and states reversing reopening plans, President Donald Trump once again claimed on Wednesday that the deadly virus would eventually just “disappear.” At the same time, the president appeared to change his tune on face-coverings, telling Fox Business that he’s “all for masks” while boasting about the single time that he was spotted wearing one, claiming he thought he “looked okay” and that he resembled
  
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• Woman In Fort Worth 7-Eleven Spits On Counter After Being Told She Had To Wear A Face Mask

  01-07-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman in North Texas became verbally abusive and even spit on a convenience store counter after being told she would have to wear a face mask in order to make a purchase. Katie Johnston reports.
  
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• U.S. says leaking nuclear waste dome is safe; Marshall Islands leaders don't believe it

  01-07-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The DOE says that radioactive leakage from Runit Dome, a respository for U.S. atomic waste, is insignificant. Marshall Islands leaders are skeptical.
  
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• Russian voters overwhelmingly back a ploy by President Vladimir Putin to rule until 2036

  01-07-2020 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  President Vladimir Putin has won a resounding victory in his bid to stay in power until the middle of the next decade, as Russians voted overwhelmingly to endorse the country's political status quo, according to preliminary results.
  
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• Coronavirus spreads to Timbuktu, despite its remote location  

  01-07-2020 22:03 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Timbuktu, a notoriously difficult town to reach in the Sahara Desert, has reported hundreds of coronavirus cases in recent weeks as health officials worry that the virus could spread to other remote areas controlled by extremist groups.
  
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• Cuba reopens its cays to tourism, but Cuban-Americans will not be able to visit for now

  01-07-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Cuban government opened the island’s northern and southern cays to tourism Wednesday amid strong measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the country to shut down travel in late March.
  
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• California governor says 70% of state must stop going to movie theaters, bars, and indoor restaurants as COVID-19 cases continue to surge

  01-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The order is effective immediately in 19 counties, including Los Angeles. San Francisco is exempt from the list.
  
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• NASA Delays Perseverance Rover Launch. Again.

  01-07-2020 21:59 via popularmechanics.com
  
  Will Percy take off for Mars before it's too late?
  
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• McConnell splits with Trump on defence bill veto and bases named for Confederate generals

  01-07-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has split with Donald Trump over the president's threat to veto the annual defence spending bill if it includes a provision to rename military bases named for Confederate figureheads.“Well, I would hope the president really wouldn't veto the bill over this issue. ... I hope the president will reconsider vetoing the entire defence bill, which includes pay raises for our troops, over a provision in there that could lead to changing the names,” Mr
  
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• Did a Cyber-Weapon Blow Up an Iranian Missile Factory—And Is This Cyber-War?

  01-07-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli and U.S. officials have denied any responsibility.
  
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• Trump again claims coronavirus is ‘going to just disappear’ as US sees record number of new cases

  01-07-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has repeated a claim that the coronavirus is going to “just disappear”, a day after the United States announced a record number of new cases.“I think we’re gonna be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point that’s going to, sort of, just disappear — I hope,” Mr Trump told Fox Business on Wednesday.
  
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• Black and Asian Americans report increased discrimination during pandemic, survey says

  01-07-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Pew study reveals an increased level of antagonism toward Asian and Black Americans since the coronavirus pandemic started.
  
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• PA announces West Bank lockdown as virus numbers soar

  01-07-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday announced a five-day lockdown across the West Bank after a rise in coronavirus infections, as Israel saw its steepest-yet 24-hour uptick in cases.The latest data from the Palestinian ministry of health said that as of Wednesday night, a total of 2,686 people had tested positive for COVID-10 since the illness was first recorded in the West Bank, compared with just 1,256 a week ago.Last week, after the easing of a previous coronavirus lockdown in late May, Pa
  
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• Did Floyd Protests Lead to a Virus Surge? Here's What We Know

  01-07-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK -- For more than two months, authorities had been urging New Yorkers to stay indoors and keep their distance from others. But after the police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, tens of thousands of New Yorkers poured into the streets, day and night, to protest police brutality and racism.Epidemiologists braced for a surge of new coronavirus cases. But it has not come yet.On May 27, the day before the protests began in New York City, some 754 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed, according to
  
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• 100-mph car chase sees suspect drive off cliff and into Pacific Ocean

  01-07-2020 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  What started out as reports of a man shooting into the air ended with a car driving off a cliff.
  
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• The Air Force's Masterplan to Make the F-15 Fighter Even More Deadly

  01-07-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here are the upgrades the Pentagon wants.
  
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• Sen. McConnell: To avoid another economic shutdown we need to take measures, wear a mask

  01-07-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell weighs in on the coronavirus pandemic, call to rename military bases and police reform legislation on ‘The Daily Briefing.’
  
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• Russian Bounties for Killing Americans Go Back Five Years, Ex-Taliban Claims

  01-07-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Taliban veterans like to laugh about the first time, according to their lore, that the Russians dumped a lot of American dollars on them. During the Taliban campaign to take over all of Afghanistan in 1995, they actually had a few fighter planes, and they used one to force a Russian cargo plane—a huge Ilyushin Il-76TD flying for a company called Airstan—to land in Kandahar. The Taliban held the Russian crew members prisoner for a year until, one day, they supposedly “escap
  
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• Hong Kong's new national security law explained

  01-07-2020 21:04 via cnn.com
  
  China imposed a new security law on Hong Kong that critics say has taken the city's autonomy and social freedoms. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
  
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• After a Black protester is killed in Omaha, witnesses claim a rushed investigation ignored signs of the shooter's allegedly racist past

  01-07-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 300 people have been arrested in Omaha amid protests against police brutality in the past month. Jake Gardner, who shot and killed James Scurlock, is not one of them.
  
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• Palestinians rally as global opposition to Israeli annexation grows

  01-07-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of Palestinians protested Wednesday in Gaza against Israel's West Bank annexation plans, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said talks were ongoing on the project, which faces intensifying international opposition.Netanyahu's centre-right coalition government had set July 1 as the date from which it could begin implementing US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace proposal.While no major announcement was expected on Israel's self-imposed kick-off date, Netanyahu's office said ta
  
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• Russian voters overwhelmingly back ploy by Putin to rule until 2036

  01-07-2020 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  • Live updates: Putin to extend rule: Preliminary results
  • Analysis: Putin's entire system of political power at stake in referendum
  
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• It Turns Out Moon Is More Metallic Than We Thought

  01-07-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA reports that astronomers studying the Moon made a surprising discovery that could actually explain a lot.
  
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• FBI: Breonna Taylor case 'top priority' in Louisville office

  01-07-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal officials are working “urgently and expeditiously” to investigate possible civil rights violations by the Louisville officers who fatally shot Breonna Taylor, Kentucky's top FBI agent said Wednesday.“We have our best agents working on this,” Robert Brown, the special agent in charge of Louisville’s FBI field office, said during a conference call with activists.
  
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• 'You’ve been warned': Florida sheriff says he may deputize gun owners against protesters

  01-07-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Critics have likened Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels' actions to "a call for vigilantism" after his comments about protesters.
  
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