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• 'You can't do that': Fox News host Wallace confronts DeVos on threat to redirect funds from schools

  12-07-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chris Wallace asked Betsy DeVos "under what authority" she and Trump were going to "unilaterally cut off funding" to schools that refuse to reopen.
  
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• 'Historic corruption': Republicans and Democrats react to Trump's Stone ruling

  12-07-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president commuted the prison sentence of his long-time associate on Friday, prompting outcry from politicians on both sides of the aisle The White House statementIn a statement released on Friday evening, the White House denounced the prosecution of Stone on charges stemming from “the Russia Hoax” investigation. “Roger Stone has already suffered greatly,” the statement read. “He was treated very unfairly, as were many others in this case. Roger Stone is now a f
  
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• Couple who threatened Black Lives Matter protesters with guns once destroyed children's beehives

  12-07-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey drew national attention in June when they flashed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters walking down their street.
  
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• U.S. weighs limited options to deal with China over Hong Kong: WSJ

  12-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Steps against Hong Kong's financial system risk hurting U.S., Western and Hong Kong companies and consumers, according to the report https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-weighs-limited-options-to-punish-china-over-hong-kong-11594576800?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=10, citing U.S. officials and analysts.Measures like more targeted sanctions against Chinese officials and trade moves against products made in Hong Kong would have little impact on Beijing's integration of the city into the mainla
  
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• Firefighters battle massive blaze on US navy ship after explosion in San Diego

  12-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Firefighters were battling a massive blaze on a US navy amphibious assault ship in San Diego, California, on Sunday night. The fire erupted after an explosion on the USS Bonhomme Richard shortly before 9am local time. Ariel photographs showed giant plumes of smoke billowing out from the ship, which was docked in its home port. The reasons for the blaze, which was caused by fuel catching fire, remained unclear. There was no suggestion of terrorism being involved. Emergency services cleared the ar
  
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• Christian Kabasele says racism online 'is worse' than incidents in stadium

  12-07-2020 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  It was a moment that shocked European football. Christian Kabasele, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scored for Genk against Standard Liege in October 2015 and celebrated with a monkey imitation.
  
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• Watford's Kabasele details horrific racist abuse in Bulgaria

  12-07-2020 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  From monkey chants, to bananas being thrown at him, Watford defender Christian Kabasele reflects on frequently being racially abused in Bulgaria when he played there in the 2011-2012 season
  
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• After Mueller's Op-Ed, Sen. Lindsey Graham Now Says He'll Call the Former Special Counsel to Testify

  12-07-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Graham had previously brushed off Democrats' requests for Mueller to testify in the Senate
  
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• Iran blames Ukrainian jetliner shootdown on miscommunication, misaligned missile battery  

  12-07-2020 22:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Authorities had initially denied responsibility but changed course days later after Western nations presented extensive evidence that Iran had shot down the plane.
  
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• Alpine melt yields old India headlines: Indira Gandhi is PM

  12-07-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Mont Blanc glacier in the French Alps yields more and more secrets as it melts -- this time a clutch of newspapers with banner headlines from when Indira Gandhi became India's first and so far only woman prime minister in 1966.The copies of Indian newspapers the National Herald and The Economic Times were probably aboard an Air India Boeing 707 that crashed on the mountain on January 24, 1966, claiming 177 lives.The trove of around a dozen newspapers was found last week by Timothee Mottin, w
  
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• South Africa re-imposes curfew, booze ban as coronavirus cases spike

  12-07-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Coronavirus infection numbers had in recent days skyrocketed with at least 12,000 infections recorded daily, translating to around 500 infections every hour, severely straining health care resources."As we head towards the peak of infections, it is vital that we do not burden our clinics and hospitals with alcohol-related injuries that could have been avoided," Ramaphosa said in a televised address to the nation."We have therefore decided that in order to conserve hospital capacity, the sale, di
  
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• Duda declares victory in Poland's presidential race, with polls too close to call

  12-07-2020 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  Poland's incumbent President Andrzej Duda declared victory in the country's presidential election despite an exit poll Sunday showing the result is too close to call.
  
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• Pope Francis 'very saddened' as Turkey converts Hagia Sophia from museum into mosque

  12-07-2020 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Pope Francis stood in silence for several minutes at his weekly Angelus prayer Sunday, after he talked about Turkey's decision to convert the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque.
  
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• The Lamborghini Diablo featured in the James Bond film 'Die Another Day' is for sale

  12-07-2020 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  You're not exactly James Bond, but you could pretend to be for the small price of just ... $119,500.
  
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• South Africa reimposes alcohol ban, curfew as coronavirus cases spike

  12-07-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Africa will reimpose a ban on the sale of alcohol and a nighttime curfew to reduce pressure on its hospitals as coronavirus infections rise rapidly, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday.Ramaphosa's government imposed one of the strictest lockdowns in the world in late March and delayed a surge in infections, but it has since eased many restrictions over fears for its struggling economy.Ramaphosa said in a televised address that the country could not afford for its hospitals and clinics
  
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• Texas is a swing state in 2020, new polls reveal

  12-07-2020 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  New CBS News/YouGov polls show President Donald Trump is in trouble in three states he won in 2016. He's tied with former Vice President Joe Biden in Arizona (46% to 46%), a state he won by four points in 2016. Trump's down 48% to 42% in Florida, a state he took by a point in 2016.
  
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• Coronavirus: Florida sets new state daily case record of 15,299

  12-07-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 24-hour tally of 15,299 new coronavirus cases eclipses the worst rates seen in New York in April.
  
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• Two killed in Azerbaijan-Armenia border clashes

  12-07-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations of launching a military offensive using artillery fire along their shared border on Sunday, with Baku reporting two troops killed.Azerbaijan's defence ministry said Armenia's "offensive" from its northern Tavush region was met with a "counterstrike" and retreated."Two Azerbaijani servicemen were killed and five more wounded," it added.
  
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• Sudan moves to repeal some Islamist laws after 30 years in place

  12-07-2020 21:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The rules will see wider acceptance for the non-Muslim population in the country.
  
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• 'Our war was clean and just' says Kosovo's Thaci

  12-07-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kosovo President Hashim Thaci on Sunday defended his record, a day before flying to The Hague to be questioned by war crimes prosecutors over his role in the 1998-99 conflict."Our war was clean and just," said Thaci, now 52, who was the political leader of an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group when it rebelled against Serbian rule.While the rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had "perhaps committed political errors", they had "in no circumstances violated international law", he told Albania'
  
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• Coronavirus: Florida sets new daily case record of 15,299

  12-07-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 24-hour tally of 15,299 new cases eclipses the worst daily rates seen in New York in April.
  
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• ‘Disheveled’ campsite spurs search for missing California woman in national forest

  12-07-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “She would never leave her campsite a mess. Even a piece of litter on the ground would bother her.”
  
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• At least 17 US Navy sailors injured after ship catches fire at San Diego Naval Base

  12-07-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The San Diego Fire Department responded to the LHD-6, an amphibious assault ship, that was docked at the naval base for routine maintenance.
  
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• Coronavirus kept them apart for 114 days. So she took a dishwashing job to see her husband

  12-07-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mary Daniel got a job as a dishwasher at a memory-care center so she could be inside the locked-down facility to see her husband, a patient there.
  
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• Robert Mueller breaks his silence and condemns Trump for commuting Roger Stone's sentence

  12-07-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US special counsel defends his investigation into allegations of corruption during 2016 electionThe former special counsel Robert Mueller made a rare move on Saturday to publicly defend his two-year investigation into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election – and to castigate Donald Trump’s decision to commute Roger Stone’s prison sentence.Mueller wrote an opinion article for the Washington Post [paywall] published under the headline
  
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• Poland's Duda slightly ahead in presidential vote: exit poll

  12-07-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Andrzej Duda was marginally ahead in Poland's presidential election, an exit poll showed on Sunday, in a result with profound implications for relations with the rest of the European Union.Duda, an ally of the ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS), got 50.4% of the vote, according to the exit poll.Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, the favoured candidate of the main opposition party, the centrist Civic Platform (PO), got 49.6%.
  
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• See penguins meet their ancestors

  12-07-2020 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  Penguins from the Shedd Aquarium spent the day at the Field Museum checking out their ancestors, like the T. Rex.
  
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• Penguins take a field trip to Chicago's Field Museum

  12-07-2020 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  Penguins from the Shedd Aquarium spent the day at the Field Museum checking out their ancestors, like the T. Rex.
  
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• Sen. Lindsey Graham said he will call Robert Mueller to testify before his committee

  12-07-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Robert Mueller broke his yearlong silence Saturday, penning an op-ed that defends the Russia investigation and the prosecution of Roger Stone.
  
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• White House seeks to discredit Fauci amid coronavirus surge

  12-07-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many of the past statements the White House is criticizing Fauci for are ones that were based on the best available data at the time and were widely echoed by Trump and other officials.
  
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• Worker aiding federal execution prep has positive virus test

  12-07-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal Bureau of Prisons said Sunday that a staff member involved in preparing for the first federal executions in nearly two decades has tested positive for coronavirus.The Justice Department said the development will not mean an additional delay in the government’s timetable, already stalled by a federal court, because the worker had not been in the execution chamber and had not come into contact with anyone on the specialized team sent to the prison to handle the execution.An attor
  
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• Court rules 1st federal execution in 17 years can proceed

  12-07-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal appeals court has ruled that the first federal execution in nearly two decades can proceed as scheduled on Monday.The ruling from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court order that had put the execution of 47-year-old Daniel Lewis Lee on hold.Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana.
  
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• Appeals court: 1st federal execution in 17 years can proceed

  12-07-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal appeals court ruled Sunday that the first federal execution in nearly two decades can proceed as scheduled on Monday.The ruling from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court order that had put the execution of 47-year-old Daniel Lewis Lee on hold.Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana.
  
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• 40% of people infected with COVID-19 are asymptomatic, a new CDC estimate says

  12-07-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Asymptomatic carriers are a particular concern for officials grappling with plans to reopen schools.
  
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• 4 Pakistani troops, 4 militants killed in shootout, military says

  12-07-2020 20:35 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A shootout in a northwestern region of Pakistan near the Afghanistan border early Sunday left four soldiers and four militants killed, Pakistan's military said.
  
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• Firefighters battle blaze on navy ship at San Diego base

  12-07-2020 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Video footage of the scene showed several firefighters rushing into thick smoke billowing from the amphibious assault ship docked at the San Diego Naval base."Explosion with at least one injury at the USS Bonhomme Richard," the fire department wrote on Twitter, adding it was working with Federal Fire to account for all sailors and clear the area.Federal Fire called on San Diego Fire Rescue crews to respond to the three-alarm fire starting at around 9AM PT (4 PM GMT).
  
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• What Mary Trump's tell-all says about Trump's psyche

  12-07-2020 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  Brian Stelter quotes from the new book by President Trump's niece Mary, a clinical psychologist, who offers several possible explanations for the president's conduct. Tony Schwartz argues that "the press has abdicated a role that is absolutely critical right now" by tip-toeing around concerns about the president's fitness for office.
  
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• British Islamic State fighter 'dies in prison' in Syria

  12-07-2020 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A British Islamic State member from East London has died in a prison in northeast Syria, according to the BBC. Ishak Mostefaoui is the first British IS-supporter to die in the custody of the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The British government refuses to allow its adult IS prisoner suspects to return to the UK for trial, believing that they should be tried in the region. The year-long impasse between the Kurdish authorities and the UK, and other Western governments has l
  
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• COVID-19 will peak in Florida later this month, AdventHealth CEO says on Face the Nation

  12-07-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. - The peak of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida will be "sometime in front of us in July," AdventHealth's president and CEO said Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation. Terry Shaw said that his projection is assuming that people practice social distancing and wear masks to slow the spread of the virus. His remarks come as Florida on Sunday reported 15,300 new COVID-19 cases, once ...
  
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• 'We do expect deaths to go up,' warns White House COVID-19 task force's Adm. Giroir as cases rise

  12-07-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brett Giroir, who oversees coronavirus testing, said mask wearing is "essential" to stopping the spread of coronavirus and reinstating lockdowns is "on the table."
  
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• Former Russia special counsel Robert Mueller defends Roger Stone prosecution in wake of Trump commutation

  12-07-2020 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Robert Mueller challenges President Trump: Roger Stone was "prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes."
  
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• Iranian officials urged to unite after nuclear plant blast

  12-07-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran’s supreme leader has addressed the country’s parliament amid growing divisions and unanswered questions over the explosion at the Natanz nuclear facility earlier this month.
  
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• Liz Truss to scrap 'self-identification' plans in the next few days

  12-07-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Government is set to scrap plans to make it easier for people to “self-identify” their gender, but birth certificate changes could be made easier in an attempt to soften the blow. Women and Equalities Minister Liz Truss is expected to officially confirm that the proposals have been ditched as early as Thursday in response to a public consultation on the Gender Recognition Act. The plans were originally drawn up under Theresa May’s government to enable transgender people to
  
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• Iran agency says chain of errors caused Ukrainian plane crash

  12-07-2020 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation blamed a misalignment of a radar system and lack of communication between the air defence operator and his commanders for the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January that killed 176 people aboard.Iran's Revolutionary Guards shot down the Ukraine International Airlines flight with a ground-to-air missile on Jan. 8 shortly after the plane took off from Tehran,in what Tehran later acknowledged as a “disastrous mistake” by forces wh
  
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• Florida mayor warns 'it won't be long' until hospitals hit capacity, as Florida sees record-high levels of new coronavirus cases

  12-07-2020 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez aired concerns as South Florida shapes into the new epicenter of the pandemic, with cases and hospitalizations surging.
  
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• Tucker Carlson writer resigns after CNN uncovers racist posts

  12-07-2020 19:46 via cnn.com
  
  Tucker Carlson's top writer Blake Neff resigned after CNN's Oliver Darcy asked for comment about racist and sexist remarks he secretly posted in an online forum. "The ideology that he was spreading" has "a direct trace to what Tucker Carlson says on air," Darcy says. The writer was using the show "to mainstream these racist and sexist ideas."
  
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• Mexico surpasses Italy to post world's fourth-highest coronavirus death toll

  12-07-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Deaths in Mexico from the coronavirus pandemic rose above 35,000 on Sunday, with the Latin American country overtaking Italy for the world's fourth-highest death total, according to Reuters data.Mexico on Sunday recorded 276 additional fatalities and 4,482 new infections to bring its coronavirus death toll to 35,006, with 299,750 confirmed cases.Italy has recorded 34,954 deaths and 243,061 cases.
  
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• Mexico set to surpass Italy's coronavirus tally as death toll nears 35,000

  12-07-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is poised to overtake Italy's and shoot above 35,000 on Sunday, with the Latin American nation set to post the world's fourth highest deaths total, according to Reuters data.Mexico on Saturday recorded 539 additional fatalities to bring its coronavirus toll to 34,730, with 295,268 confirmed cases.Italy has recorded 34,945 deaths and 242,827 cases.
  
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• New tropical system brewing in the East Pacific

  12-07-2020 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Cristina continues to weaken as the the storm approaches the Central Pacific, AccuWeather meteorologists will be monitoring a new area of disturbed weather for tropical development this week.A broad area of low pressure is moving off the southern coast of Mexico over the warm waters of the East Pacific Ocean."This disturbance will likely become the next tropical depression or storm over the next day or two as it continues to move westward into a more favorable environment," stated AccuWeat
  
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• Maryland governor says GOP needs 'bigger tent' after Trump

  12-07-2020 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Republican governor rumored to be eyeing a run for the White House in 2024 said Sunday that the GOP needs to be a “bigger tent party" after President Donald Trump leaves office.Maryland's Larry Hogan, who has been known to break with Trump, told NBC's “Meet the Press" that he doesn't “know what the future holds in November."“But I know that the Republican Party is going to be looking at what happens after President Trump and whether that’s in four months or four y
  
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