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• Prosecutor in Jodi Arias murder case agrees to disbarment

  17-07-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Arizona prosecutor known for winning a conviction in the Jodi Arias murder case agreed Friday to be disbarred in an ethics case in which he was accused of leaking the identity of an Arias juror and sexually harassing female law clerks in his office.Juan Martinez agreed to give up his license to practice law, ending the ethics case that was scheduled to go to trial in November.The State Bar of Arizona, which regulates lawyers and was seeking discipline against Martinez, said the outcome
  
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• Birx's rise in the Trump administration has tainted her reputation among some health experts

  17-07-2020 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  As the relationship between Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Donald Trump publicly disintegrated over the past few months, Dr. Deborah Birx, Fauci's former mentee, solidified her standing inside the White House, to the point that sources familiar with the situation say she has essentially taken charge of running the task force day to day.
  
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• Democrats say White House blocking CDC head from testifying

  17-07-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats are criticizing the White House for blocking the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from testifying at a public hearing on safely reopening the nation's schools.Democrats said they invited CDC officials, including director Robert Redfield, to testify at a hearing next Thursday but were rebuffed by the White House.A committee spokesperson said the panel asked for any CDC official to testify but was rejected.
  
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• NASA targets Aug. 2 to bring astronauts from SpaceX Crew Dragon home

  17-07-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. - NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the two astronauts from SpaceX's Crew Dragon will leave the International Space Station on Aug. 1 for a return to Earth on Aug. 2. Bridenstine posted the timeline for the return of Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to complete the historic mission that marked the first time astronauts had launched from U.S. soil since the end of the space ...
  
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• Border agency fires 4, suspends 38 for social media posts

  17-07-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Border Patrol's parent agency said Friday that it fired four employees and suspended 38 without pay for inappropriate social media activity following revelations of a secret Facebook group that mocked members of Congress and migrants.The investigation began in July 2019 after posts surfaced in a secret Facebook group called “I’m 10-15.”Customs and Border Protection said another 33 employees were disciplined with reprimands or counseling.
  
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• Mysterious arrest video with unidentified police raises questions

  17-07-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  A mysterious video of unidentified police arresting a protester and putting him in an unmarked vehicle has been shared widely online, including by a US senator who called it "authoritarianism." US Customs and Border Protection says the person detained in the video was suspected of assaulting federal agents.
  
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• Mysterious arrest video with unidentified police raises alarm

  17-07-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  A mysterious video of unidentified police arresting a protester and putting him in an unmarked vehicle has been shared widely online, including by a US senator who called it "authoritarianism." US Customs and Border Protection says the person detained in the video was suspected of assaulting federal agents.
  
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• Esper issues de facto ban on Confederate flags at U.S. military bases

  17-07-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper released a memo Friday that in effect bans the public display of the Confederate flag.
  
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• New York City enters final reopening phase as California, Florida, and Texas cases surge

  17-07-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City has reached a major milestone in its COVID-19 fight.Once the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City will move to its final phase of reopening on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced Friday. Malls, gyms, and cultural institutions will remain closed, as will indoor dining, but most other businesses can reopen with appropriate social distancing measures.At the peak of its pandemic, New York state often saw hundreds of COVID-19 deaths per day, but reported 10 deaths on Fr
  
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• Joe Biden has a plan to save America's school season — and right now that would mean keeping many closed

  17-07-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden endorses reopening based on local conditions, rather than Trump's widespread reopening stance.
  
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• Man arrested and charged in tech CEO's killing

  17-07-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A personal assistant arrested Friday in the slaying of a tech entrepreneur who was found dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo was believed to have owed his boss a “significant amount of money," police said. (July 17)
  
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• Anyone can buy the same military-style gear worn by federal officers making secretive arrests in Portland

  17-07-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The entire ensemble, down to the minivan, is readily available to consumers through online shopping.
  
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• White House blocks CDC from testifying on reopening schools

  17-07-2020 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  The White House is blocking US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield and other officials from the agency from testifying before a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on reopening schools next week, just as the debate over sending children back to classrooms has flared up across the US.
  
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• Navy's Top Admiral Won't Yet Say if Bonhomme Richard Will Be Repaired After Fire

  17-07-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said the Navy is launching three investigations into the ship's fire.
  
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• Southern states' fondness for pickups could save carmakers from a slump — but not if COVID-19 cases continue to spike

  17-07-2020 23:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  "Almost half the shoppers delaying their purchase described this as a ‘scary’ time to buy a vehicle,” said one industry expert.
  
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• Experts say this 'bridge to a vaccine' may be a reason for optimism. Here's how it works.

  17-07-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They've been promoted as a "bridge to a vaccine." But what are monoclonal antibodies?
  
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• A 'viral stun gun': How monoclonal antibodies can help fight COVID-19

  17-07-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They've been promoted as a "bridge to a vaccine." But what are monoclonal antibodies?
  
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• Commentary: Anti-Trump ads are all the rage. But they work better as comedy than politics

  17-07-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Lincoln Project and other "Never Trump" Republican groups are taking on the president. Like Sarah Cooper's web videos, they are as much comedy as politics.
  
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• How close is Russia to developing a Covid-19 vaccine?

  17-07-2020 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  Footage from inside a tightly controlled research lab in Moscow offers CNN an exclusive glimpse inside Russia's rapid push for a coronavirus vaccine. CNN's Matthew Chance reports the race for a vaccine raises concerns the nation may be cutting legal and ethical corners.
  
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• CNN obtains footage showing inside a Russian research lab

  17-07-2020 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  Footage from inside a tightly controlled research lab in Moscow offers CNN an exclusive glimpse inside Russia's rapid push for a coronavirus vaccine. CNN's Matthew Chance reports the race for a vaccine raises concerns the nation may be cutting legal and ethical corners.
  
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• A glimpse inside Russia's rapid push for a coronavirus vaccine

  17-07-2020 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  Footage from inside a tightly controlled research lab in Moscow offers CNN an exclusive glimpse inside Russia's rapid push for a coronavirus vaccine. CNN's Matthew Chance reports the race for a vaccine raises concerns the nation may be cutting legal and ethical corners.
  
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• What if they make a vaccine but Americans refuse to take it?

  17-07-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  What if they make a Covid-19 vaccine but Americans refuse to take it?
  
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• What if they make a Covid-19 vaccine but Americans refuse to take it?

  17-07-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  What if they make a Covid-19 vaccine but Americans refuse to take it?
  
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• Targeting Trump: Meet the Republicans trying to get Biden elected

  17-07-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Mary Bruce talks to the Lincoln Project and other GOP groups now backing Joe Biden and hoping their messages hitting the president resonate with voters.
  
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• A 10-year-old boy was dragged off a boat by a shark on the Australian coast

  17-07-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The boy was left with arm, head, and chest injuries after the shark attack near Stanley, on northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia.
  
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• Here's how Trump could ban the Chinese-owned app TikTok

  17-07-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In recent weeks, U.S. government officials and members of Congress have placed TikTok in their crosshairs, warning that personal data collected by the social media giant could be secretly sent back to its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
  
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• Republicans eye sweeping shield from coronavirus liability

  17-07-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new plan from Senate Republicans to award businesses, schools, and universities sweeping exemptions from lawsuits arising from inadequate coronavirus safeguards is putting Republicans and Democrats at loggerheads as Congress reconvenes next week to negotiate another relief package.The liability proposal, drafted by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and senior Republican John Cornyn of Texas, promises to shield employers when customers and workers are exposed to coronavirus by moving laws
  
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• Ex-Miss Kentucky sentenced to 2 years in prison for sending topless photos to boy, 15

  17-07-2020 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  A former Miss Kentucky who admitted to exchanging explicit photos with a teenager has been sentenced to two years at a West Virginia prison.
  
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• Terrifying photos show "ultra-black fish" for the first time

  17-07-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  These "ultra-black" fish are among the darkest creatures ever found.
  
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• No, Gavin Newsom says, Orange County won't reopen its schools (as long as infections are this high)

  17-07-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a Friday press conference, Newsom said all 32 counties on the coronavirus "watch list" will have remote learning, as San Francisco joined the list.
  
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• As debate rages, many public health experts say children should return to school

  17-07-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE - In the raging national debate over whether to reopen schools, advocates on both sides are basing their arguments on a range of factors: political, economic and emotional. But there is a growing consensus in the public health and scientific community that schools should resume in-person classes this fall - particularly in states such as Maryland, where cases have not spiked as they ...
  
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• What is short sleep syndrome? The rare condition that causes a lucky few, like Barack Obama, to only need 6 hours of sleep a night

  17-07-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Short sleep syndrome is a condition that allows some people to operate on less than six hours of sleep and feel completely fine during the day.
  
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• Texas will allow schools to be online-only through November as the state passes 300,000 coronavirus cases

  17-07-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state is allowing local officials to delay in-person classes even more based on the coronavirus danger in each school district.
  
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• Pentagon to Consider Stripping Names, Gender Pronouns from Selection Boards

  17-07-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper said personnel leaders are eyeing options to eliminate unconscious bias from promotion boards.
  
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• Fahim Saleh: Assistant of tech entrepreneur found decapitated in luxury condo charged with murder

  17-07-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The executive assistant of the tech entrepreneur who was found decapitated and dismembered in his apartment has been charged with his murder.Fahim Saleh was found dead by his cousin on Tuesday in his luxury condominium on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
  
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• Dustin Honken: Iowa drug kingpin third US federal execution in as many days

  17-07-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A meth kingpin convicted of killing five people has become the third person this week to be executed by the US government.Former Iowa chemistry student Dustin Honken, 52, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 4.36 pm, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
  
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• Colorado store receives threats after video of woman refusing to wear mask goes viral

  17-07-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A liquor store in Colorado received threatening phone calls after a woman that refused to wear a face mask inside the store filmed her ejection from the business.Ruby Musso, the woman who shot the video and refused to wear a mask, was shopping in a liquor store when other customers began shaming her for not wearing a mask and putting them at risk of catching the coronavirus. At one point, a woman shoves her shopping cart towards Ms Musso.
  
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• Polish 'LGBT-Free' town weighs risk of losing EU funds

  17-07-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  About a hundred towns across rural Poland that have declared to be free of “LGBT ideology,” reflecting a backlash against gay rights throughout the nation.
  
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• Chicago plan would have kids in classrooms 2 days per week

  17-07-2020 22:06
  
  Most Chicago children would return to the classroom two days a week and spend the other three days learning remotely once the school year begins under a tentative plan outlined by officials from the nation’s third-largest school district
  
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• Coronavirus updates: 18 states in 'red zone' for COVID cases, WH document shows

  17-07-2020 22:05
  
  At least 138,840 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S.
  
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• Graham releases declassified docs on early months of Russia probe

  17-07-2020 21:59 via politico.com
  
  The documents suggest the FBI had gathered little, if any, evidence that ties between Americans in Trump's orbit and figures in Russia’s shadowy intelligence services existed.
  
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• Woman who killed her 5-year-old son gets 35-year prison term

  17-07-2020 21:58
  
  A northern Illinois woman has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for beating her five-year-old son to death
  
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• As COVID-19 surges in the US, are we all willing to take it seriously?: Opinion

  17-07-2020 21:56
  
  We as a country are falling short of what’s needed to slow the spread of the virus and safely inch back to normal.
  
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• 'Boogaloo' on the loose: Experts warn Congress about extremism on the right

  17-07-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities who study extremism told Congress Thursday that far-right groups, not the radicals of antifa, currently pose the most serious threat of political violence in America — including attacks on the police.Beirich was called to testify Thursday as part of a virtual hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence & Counterterrorism, along with J.J. MacNab, a fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, and John Donahue, the former chief
  
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• Apple's iPhone 12 is expected to bring major changes like a new design, 5G, and 3D cameras — here's everything we know about it so far

  17-07-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple's iPhone 12 is expected to come in four versions when it's presumably released in September. Here's what we know.
  
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• 3M files lawsuits for price gouging of N95 masks

  17-07-2020 21:48
  
  Most Chicago children would return to the classroom two days a week and spend the other three days learning remotely under an early proposal
  
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• Minneapolis City Council Declares Racism a ‘Public Health Emergency’

  17-07-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The Minneapolis City Council on Friday declared racism a public health emergency, a move that comes after weeks of unrest following the police custody death of George Floyd in May that sparked national outrage.The council approved a resolution that states the city of Minneapolis will recognize "the severe impact of racism on the well-being of residents and city overall and allocate funding, staff, and additional resources to actively engage in racial equity in order to name, reverse, a
  
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• DA: No basis for charges against cop who put knee on head

  17-07-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Pennsylvania police officer was justified when he pressed his knee into an intoxicated man’s head while restraining him outside a hospital, a prosecutor said Friday after reviewing an incident that was caught on video and generated allegations of police brutality.The officer and a second police officer used reasonable force to restrain the man, who was agitated, acting erratically and posing a danger to himself and others, Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said.“I have con
  
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• White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus 'red zone' 

  17-07-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A report recommends that “red zone” states mandate the use of masks, limit social gatherings to 10 people or fewer and close bars and gyms in hot spots.
  
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• Two Indiana men charged in alleged racist assault, 'noose' threat at Lake Monroe

  17-07-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The men are charged with confinement and battery in an incident where a Black man, Vauhxx Booker, said he was threatened with lynching.
  
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