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• Trump to hold campaign rally in Portsmouth, N.H., as several states report jump in coronavirus cases

  05-07-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's outdoor campaign rally in New Hampshire comes as several states across the country have reported a spike in coronavirus cases.
  
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• 'We refuse to celebrate': July 4th protesters say not all Americans are free

  05-07-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters held marches, rallies and sit-ins in cities and towns across the nation on July 4th.
  
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• Trump to hold outdoor campaign rally in New Hampshire

  05-07-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump will host an outdoor campaign rally in New Hampshire, his team said Sunday, following a flopped rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma against the backdrop of COVID-19.The billionaire Republican, who is seeking reelection on November 3, had made his grand return to the campaign trail on June 20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Pictures of Trump's return to the White House in the middle of the night, with a worn-out air and his tie undone, cemented the image of a failed comeback.
  
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• Strip club employees, customers hit with coronavirus outbreak, Michigan officials say

  05-07-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The outbreak comes as more than 150 cases of coronavirus have been linked to a bar in a Michigan college town.
  
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• Supreme Court set to hand down major rulings in July

  05-07-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court is taking an unusually long time to complete its term this year, with decisions in eight cases still under wraps days after the justices would have typically cleared out its docket for the season. The coronavirus pandemic can be partly blamed for the delay, CNN's Ariane de Vogue says.
  
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• Iran nuclear: Natanz fire caused 'significant' damage

  05-07-2020 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Iranian officials say cyber sabotage may be behind the blaze, which damaged a key nuclear facility.
  
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• South Florida worst in the nation for food scarcity as a result of the coronavirus pandemic

  05-07-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than one in seven South Florida households now say they sometimes or often do not have enough to eat, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this week. It’s the highest rate in the nation, ahead of Houston and New York.
  
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• Morning mail: 'Explosive potential' of Melbourne outbreak, Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest, First Dog speaks

  05-07-2020 23:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Monday: Residents in nine public housing high-rises put on hard lockdown as Victoria tries to contain outbreak. Plus, a rare interview with First Dog on the MoonGood morning, this is Emilie Gramenz bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 6 July. Continue reading...
  
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• Kanye West says he's running for president. There is no evidence of that yet.

  05-07-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Filing deadlines for presidential candidates have either passed or are coming up soon - and candidates need to get thousands of signatures to qualify.
  
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• A family in Florida found a nearly 9-foot alligator with missing limbs on their doorstep

  05-07-2020 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  Yet another Florida alligator decided to give local residents a terrifying surprise to wake up to. This time, a family in Tampa opened their front door on June 30 to find a gator lounging comfortably -- and totally refusing to move.
  
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• Trump to hold outdoor campaign rally in Portsmouth, N.H.

  05-07-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump is set to hold an outdoor rally Saturday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, according to the president’s campaign.The campaign rally at Portsmouth International Airport will come three weeks after an indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the president's first of the COVID-19 era, drew a smaller-than-expected crowd amid concerns of rising infections in the region.The Trump campaign's announcement of the Portsmouth rally noted that “there will be ample access to hand sanit
  
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• Boris Johnson pledges £1.5bn lifeline to keep UK's arts sector afloat

  05-07-2020 22:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Industry welcomes ‘surprisingly ambitious’ sum for museums, galleries, theatres and music venues‘At last a glimpse of hope’: UK arts figures on the rescue package
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Britain’s beleaguered arts and heritage sectors have been promised £1.57bn of help in a long-awaited rescue package described by the government as the biggest one-off investment in UK culture.After weeks of desperate warnings that the
  
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• US Navy exercises military drills in South China Sea

  05-07-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Navy exercises military drills in the disputed South China Sea; Trey Yingst reports.
  
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• Video shows packed pool and water park despite warnings

  05-07-2020 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  Video from a water park in Wisconsin, and parties in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, and Diamond Lake, Michigan, shows large groups of people celebrating the Fourth of July holiday despite warnings from health officials that such gatherings would likely lead to an increase in coronavirus cases. CNN's Polo Sandoval reports.
  
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• Video shows packed lake party in US despite warnings

  05-07-2020 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  Video from a water park in Wisconsin, and parties in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, and Diamond Lake, Michigan, shows large groups of people celebrating the Fourth of July holiday despite warnings from health officials that such gatherings would likely lead to an increase in coronavirus cases. CNN's Polo Sandoval reports.
  
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• Iran confirms damaged nuclear site was centrifuge facility

  05-07-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran on Sunday confirmed that a damaged building at the underground Natanz nuclear site was a new centrifuge assembly center, the official IRNA news agency reported.Iranian officials had previously sought to downplay the fire, which erupted early on Thursday, calling it only an “incident” that affected an “industrial shed.”A spokesman for Iran’s nuclear agency, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said Sunday that work had begun on the center in 2013 and it was inaugurated in 2018.
  
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• Washington-based lobbyist declined to represent Prince Andrew, New York Times claims

  05-07-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A lobbyist with ties to the Trump administration and a client list that includes governments accused of human rights abuses has declined to represent Prince Andrew, it was claimed on Sunday night. The New York Times said the Duke of York's lawyers approached the Washington-based lobbyist Robert Stryk "in recent weeks". Mr Stryk has a history of "taking on clients with unsavoury reputations" the newspaper reported but it claimed that he "expressed discomfort about the possibility of assisting Pri
  
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• Washington-based lobbyist 'declined to represent Prince Andrew'

  05-07-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A lobbyist with ties to the Trump administration and a client list that includes governments accused of human rights abuses has declined to represent Prince Andrew, it was claimed on Sunday night. The New York Times said the Duke of York's lawyers approached the Washington-based lobbyist Robert Stryk "in recent weeks". Mr Stryk has a history of "taking on clients with unsavoury reputations" the newspaper reported but it claimed that he "expressed discomfort about the possibility of assisting Pri
  
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• Coronavirus: Texas mayors warn of 'serious trouble' as cases surge across US

  05-07-2020 22:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaders of Houston and Austin fear hospital bed shortageFlorida closes beaches as cases pass 200,000 Trump stokes division over pandemic and raceTwo prominent Texas mayors have warned that hospitals in their cities will be “overwhelmed” by cases of Covid-19 inside two weeks, even as Donald Trump continues to portray the coronavirus resurgence nationwide as the embers of a fire he is steadily extinguishing. Related: ‘They feel invincible’: how California’s coronaviru
  
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• Coronavirus: Texas mayors warn of 'serious trouble' as cases surge across US

  05-07-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Leaders of Houston and Austin fear hospital bed shortage* Florida closes beaches as cases pass 200,000 * Trump stokes division over pandemic and raceTwo prominent Texas mayors have warned that hospitals in their cities will be “overwhelmed” by cases of Covid-19 inside two weeks, even as Donald Trump continues to portray the coronavirus resurgence nationwide as the embers of a fire he is steadily extinguishing.“If we don’t get our hands around this virus quickly, in abou
  
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• Protesters mourn the killing of a Black transgender woman in Pompano Beach

  05-07-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following the shooting death of a Black transgender woman in South Florida on Friday, about 25 people gathered Sunday afternoon in Pompano Beach to mourn her death.
  
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• A woman has died after falling from a roller coaster in France

  05-07-2020 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  A woman died Sunday after falling from a roller coaster in a theme park in Oise, in northern France.
  
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• ‘We didn’t knock politely’: Details emerge of FBI raid at Ghislaine Maxwell hideout

  05-07-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fresh details have emerged of the FBI raid leading to the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of grooming young girls on behalf of her former partner, the convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.The 58-year-old British heiress is due to appear in a New York court this week to face four charges of aiding Epstein in the trafficking and sexual exploitation and abuse of minors, and two counts of perjury, which could see her imprisoned for 35 years.
  
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• Liverpool can't think of records despite moving closer to points landmark - Klopp

  05-07-2020 21:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool cannot focus on breaking records after the Premier League champions made it 17 wins from 17 home games this season by beating Aston Villa.
  
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• Duke, Dominion cancel contested Atlantic Coast Pipeline

  05-07-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced Sunday that they are canceling the multi-state natural gas project, citing delays and increasing cost uncertainty.Despite a victory last month at the United States Supreme Court over a critical permit, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy said in a news release that “recent developments have created an unacceptable layer of uncertainty and anticipated delays” for the $8 billion project designed to cross West Virginia and Virginia int
  
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• When Trump's own medical advisers refuse to correct his misleading claim, the coronavirus trust gap grows

  05-07-2020 21:33 via cnn.com
  
  On Saturday night, President Donald Trump made the dangerously inaccurate claim that 99% of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless." On Sunday morning, one of his top health experts failed to correct the assertion, a stunning breakdown of the government's core duty to keep Americans safe and protect the public health.
  
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• Immigrant workers at Michigan greenhouse: We were cheated, tricked into deportation

  05-07-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Migrants from Mexico came to Michigan to work at a greenhouse, but were cheated of pay and tricked into being detained, according to a lawsuit.
  
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• The federal government extended the Paycheck Protection Program after $130 billion out of $660 billion went uncollected. Here's what new applicants need to know.

  05-07-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Potential applicants now have until August to request federal relief funds under the program to help businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Gettysburg 'flag-burning hoax' sees armed far-right groups assemble

  05-07-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A fake call served to mobilise far-right militias to descend on the Gettysburg battleground site.
  
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• Liverpool gets Premier League title celebrations back on track with victory over Aston Villa

  05-07-2020 21:08 via cnn.com
  
  Liverpool got its Premier League title-winning celebrations back on track with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa, just days after being on the receiving end of a record-equaling defeat.
  
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• This country saw a 600% jump in virus cases

  05-07-2020 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  Iraq's largest cemetery receives 70-80 bodies a day, but those numbers are expected to get much worse in a country whose infrastructure has been wrought by decades of sanctions, war, and corruption. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
  
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• Country sees 600% jump in virus cases

  05-07-2020 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  Iraq's largest cemetery receives 70-80 bodies a day, but those numbers are expected to get much worse in a country whose infrastructure has been wrought by decades of sanctions, war, and corruption. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
  
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• Bolton: Trump claim he wasn’t told of Russia bounty report is 'not how system works’

  05-07-2020 20:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-national security adviser also says any decision to withhold intelligence would ‘certainly not’ be ‘made only by the briefer’Trump uses Fourth of July to stoke division on virus and raceDonald Trump’s claim not to have been briefed about intelligence suggesting Russia paid Taliban-linked militants to kill US soldiers is “just not the way the system works”, former national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday. Related: Trump’s niece says 2
  
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• Bolton: Trump claim he wasn’t told of Russia bounty report is 'not how system works’

  05-07-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ex-national security adviser also says any decision to withhold intelligence would ‘certainly not’ be ‘made only by the briefer’* Trump uses Fourth of July to stoke division on virus and raceDonald Trump’s claim not to have been briefed about intelligence suggesting Russia paid Taliban-linked militants to kill US soldiers is “just not the way the system works”, former national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday.Bolton was appearing on Face the N
  
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• Argentina sweetens debt revamp offer to creditors; sets August 4 deadline

  05-07-2020 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Argentina's government unveiled an amended debt restructuring proposal on Sunday and set a deadline of Aug. 4 for creditors to accept it, adding some key sweeteners as it looks to defuse recent tensions with bondholders and strike a deal.The new proposal https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/anexo-05-07-2020.pdf, which comes after talks to revamp around $65 billion in foreign debt stalled last month, would reduce principal haircuts, increase coupons and include a bond to account for a
  
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• As vaccine hopes rise, US races to buy syringes to avoid shortage scenario

  05-07-2020 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A report in May warned the USA could need 850 million more syringes for a coronavirus vaccine. Is the country prepared?
  
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• FDA commissioner refuses to comment on Trump's claim that 99 percent of coronavirus cases are 'harmless'

  05-07-2020 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump calls 99% of COVID cases "harmless" in his July 4 speech. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn refused to comment on the claim.
  
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• Rare case of brain-destroying amoeba confirmed in Florida

  05-07-2020 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Naegleria fowleri is contacted when contaminated water enters through a person's nose and is found in warm freshwater.
  
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• Virus fear prompts Mexican town to block road from US border

  05-07-2020 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Residents of the town of Sonoyta, across from Lukeville, Arizona, briefly blocked the main road leading south from the U.S. border over the weekend over fears of coronavirus outbreaks. Arizona has seen a major upsurge in infections and there were worries about intensified contagion during the July 4 weekend. The mayor of Sonoyta, José Ramos Arzate, issued a statement Saturday "inviting U.S. tourists not to visit Mexico.”
  
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• MPs call for parental leave to be extended by three months amid fears over childcare and job losses during Covid-19

  05-07-2020 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MPs have called for parental leave for all new parents caught up in the coronavirus pandemic to be extended by three months, amid warnings over job losses and childcare arrangements. In a report published on Monday, the Commons petitions committee warns that Covid-19 has led to new parents missing out on “crucial support” and some experiencing severe mental health problems. This includes missing out on visits from health professionals and a lack of access to mental health services, d
  
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• At 550,000 coronavirus tests daily in the USA, testing still far below level for safe reopening

  05-07-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump suggested testing be slowed because it uncovers more cases. Experts say the rise is due mainly to wider exposure to the virus.
  
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• FDA Head Repeatedly Declines to Defend or Deny Trump Claim That 99% of COVID-19 Cases Are 'Totally Harmless'

  05-07-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The President's claim contradicts the existing data
  
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• FDA Head Declines to Defend or Deny Trump Claim That 99% of COVID-19 Cases Are 'Totally Harmless'

  05-07-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The President's claim contradicts the existing data
  
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• Phoenix mayor says the federal government is 'declaring victory while we're still in crisis mode' as Arizona sees the highest per-capita infection rate in the US

  05-07-2020 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Sunday, the state health department reported 3,536 new cases of COVID-19 days after it reported its all-time high of 4,878 new cases on Wednesday.
  
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• Coronavirus Confessions: Share your anonymous stories about child care, dating and more

  05-07-2020 19:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  Social distancing, self-isolation and quarantining. Share your anonymous stories in the time of COVID-19.
  
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• Taj Mahal remains shut as India reports record daily virus cases

  05-07-2020 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  India's top tourist attraction the Taj Mahal will remain shut, officials said Sunday, as the vast nation registered a record daily number of coronavirus cases and opened a sprawling treatment centre in the capital to fight the pandemic.The health ministry reported just under 25,000 cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours -- the biggest daily spike since the first case was detected in late January.The surge took India's total tally to more than 673,000 cases and 19,268 deaths, pulling the country closer
  
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• US mayors warn their cities are being overwhelmed

  05-07-2020 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US mayors warned on Sunday that their cities were in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge in covid-19 cases as they pushed back against governors’ decisions to re-open states and President Donald Trump’s claims that the disease is under control. Across the US, the nationwide rolling seven-day average of new cases hit 48,361 - an increase of 11,740 on the past week. In all 18 states have reported new records, prompting local officials to warn that they are in danger of being overwhe
  
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• Fact check: Common cold does not produce positive coronavirus test

  05-07-2020 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People are misinterpreting COVID-19 viral testing for antibodies testing, falsely claiming colds are responsible for positive coronavirus tests.
  
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• Met police deny misconduct after Linford Christie athletes stopped

  05-07-2020 19:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Pair trained by Olympic champion consider legal action over incident in west LondonTwo black athletes trained by former Olympic champion Linford Christie who were stopped and handcuffed by police officers while with their three-month-old son are considering legal action, the Guardian understands. Video of the incident in Maida Vale, west London, on Saturday, posted by Christie on Twitter, showed officers telling the occupants of the vehicle, Ricardo dos Santos and Bianca Williams, they were goin
  
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• President Kanye? Fresh Off a New Deal With Gap, West Looks Higher

  05-07-2020 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The designer and musician says he’s looking to the Oval Office next.
  
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