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• U.S. House passes $740 billion defense bill; fight with Trump looms

  21-07-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, a $740 billion bill setting policy for the Pentagon that President Donald Trump has threatened to veto over a provision removing Confederate names from military bases.The Democratic-led House backed the measure by 295 to 125, paving the way for negotiations with the Republican-led Senate on a compromise version of the NDAA, which Trump would then sign or veto.Earlier Tuesday, the White Hous
  
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• US Navy to develop drone deployment strategy

  21-07-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After hitting a wall of skepticism in Congress, the Navy is trying to do what it takes to gain support for unmanned systems.
  
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• Trump encourages Americans to wear a mask in coronavirus briefing

  21-07-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The near-daily briefings that were a staple of much of March and into April disappeared after Mr. Trump focused on reopening the ailing economy.
  
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• Fauci responds to Trump's criticism of his approach

  21-07-2020 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday he considered himself "more a realist than an alarmist" after President Donald Trump on Sunday labeled him "a little bit of an alarmist" even as the coronavirus pandemic worsens.
  
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• Is international travel allowed? See reopening dates for Canada, Mexico, Maldives and other spots

  21-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here's an update on travel restrictions and opening plans for some of the countries that are most popular with American travelers.
  
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• With GOP now on board, another coronavirus stimulus check is likely. But for how much?

  21-07-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans propose more economic stimulus payments for Americans. Democrats previously called for the same. But still unknown is how much and who will get them.
  
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• California Set for Further Reclosure as L.A. Weighs Another Lockdown

  21-07-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state is about to pass New York as having the most coronavirus cases in the U.S.
  
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• Israel’s new alternative prime minister pushed for coronavirus response to be managed by military, not health ministry

  21-07-2020 23:25 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said Tuesday he thinks the military should take over the handling of stemming the spread of COVID-19, shifting responsibilities from the health ministry.
  
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• Art Laffer blasts Joe Biden's economic plan, 'they want to make all of us poor'

  21-07-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Art Laffer, a former economic adviser to Ronald Reagan, says the problem with Joe Biden’s recently released economic proposal is that it's anti-growth, as it taxes people who work and pays people who don’t work. Laffer says if implemented, Biden’s tax plan will do serious damage to the economy.
  
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• Just 40% of cruise ships operating in American waters since mid-April tested crew members for the coronavirus — and it's a red flag for those eager to hit the water

  21-07-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many are eager to hop a cruise, but a new CDC report raises flags on how companies are handling the coronavirus pandemic today.
  
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• Powerful Ohio lawmaker arrested for role in 'largest bribery scheme' in state history, officials said

  21-07-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FBI agents raided the farm of House Speaker Larry Householder in connection to his support of nuclear power plant bailouts.
  
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• Sen. Kennedy chastises Portland mayor's handling of protests

  21-07-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy responds to violent clashes between police and protesters in Portland, Oregon.
  
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• 'I totally am preparing to get sick': Teachers in coronavirus hotspots don't know when they'll feel safe returning to school

  21-07-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite plans to reopen, teachers in states like Texas and Florida told Insider that they're concerned about going back to the classroom.
  
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• Descendant of Robert E. Lee: Black lives matter, statues of the confederate general should be removed

  21-07-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A descendant of Robert E. Lee, Rev. Robert Wright Lee, told a House panel on Tuesday that Black lives matter, and that statues and memorials to the general in the Confederate army should be removed.
  
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• Biden considering four Black women for VP

  21-07-2020 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Monday he was considering four Black women to be his running mate, and has been receiving extensive vetting briefings about each potential candidate.
  
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• Democrats press Trump admin to study potential Covid-19 treatment

  21-07-2020 23:00 via politico.com
  
  The government is paying for patients to receive convalescent plasma without knowing whether it works.
  
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• Ex-Fox News presenter Ed Henry accused of rape as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others embroiled in sexual harassment lawsuit

  21-07-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Fox News host has been accused of rape in a lawsuit that also accuses some of the broadcaster’s biggest names – including key allies of Donald Trump – of sexual harassment.In a lawsuit filed on Monday in New York, Jennifer Eckhart, a former producer at the network, accused Ed Henry of rape and sexual harassment. Mr Henry was fired earlier this month over claims of “sexual misconduct”.
  
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• Vice President Mike Pence `wouldn't hesitate' to send his kids back to school

  21-07-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said he "wouldn't hesitate" to send his own children back to the classroom, despite the rise in coronavirus cases.
  
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• What we know about the death of Fahim Saleh, the 33-year-old tech millionaire who was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan condo

  21-07-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On July 14, 33-year-old tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh was found decapitated and dismembered in NYC. On July 18, his assistant was charged with murder.
  
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• U.S. seeking arrest of Venezuela chief justice, offers reward for info

  21-07-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Venezuelan Chief Justice Maikel Moreno and announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction for allegedly participating in transnational organized crime.In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the chief justice of Venezuela's supreme court was being offered through the State Department's Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program
  
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• Study says number of Covid-19 cases is far greater than thought

  21-07-2020 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  The number of people who have had Covid-19 is much greater than the official case count, according to data and a new analysis released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.
  
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• CNN Anchor Scolds Trump Spokesman: ‘You’re Doing a Real Disservice’

  21-07-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Tuesday battled with Trump campaign director of communications Tim Murtaugh over President Donald Trump’s neverending embrace of controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, lecturing Murtaugh for touting the drug as a coronavirus treatment.Towards the end of yet another heated segment with the CNN host on the president’s coronavirus response, Murtaugh contended that Trump always listens to the advice of his public-health experts on his coronaviru
  
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• Majority of economists say $600 unemployment boost should be extended or increased for rest of the year

  21-07-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican lawmakers have cast doubt on extending the $600 per week boost to unemployment insurance during ongoing coronavirus relief bill negotiations, but economists think it should remain at least for the rest of year, a new survey shows.The FiveThirtyEight survey, conducted in partnership with the Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, polled 33 economists on whether the federal benefits should continue at the same rate, increase, decrease, or lap
  
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• Pence defends outbreak response, pushes against shutdowns

  21-07-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday defended the Trump administration's guidance to states on ramping their economies back up amid the spread of the coronavirus, saying it was based on the best information at the time and a spike in recent cases shouldn't mean more shutdowns."We really believed that was essential, that every American take these steps, and so that we would prevent our hospitals ... from being overwhelmed," Pence said of the administration's 45-day recommended social distancing g
  
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• The US military is starting to get concerned about law enforcement dressing up in Army uniforms

  21-07-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We want a system where people can tell the difference," a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.
  
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• Defense Department says it's concerned about law enforcement dressing up in Army uniforms

  21-07-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We want a system where people can tell the difference," a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.
  
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• A fitness model tried the 4,000-calorie-a-day Wolverine diet, but he didn't end up ripped like Hugh Jackman

  21-07-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hugh Jackman's Wolverine diet combined 4,000 calories and over 200 grams of protein a day and intermittent fasting to get the star shredded.
  
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• CNN's Brianna Keilar cuts off live interview with 'lying' Trump campaign official

  21-07-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An official from President Trump's campaign was called out live on the air by one CNN anchor for "doing a real disservice" to Americans.CNN's Brianna Keilar spoke to Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh on Tuesday afternoon in what turned out to be quite a heated conversation. Early on she blasted him for "lying" about the national stockpile and went on to describe the administration's "failure" on COVID-19 testing.Keilar continued to fact-check Murtaugh throughout the conversatio
  
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• Fact check: Harriet Tubman helped free slaves for the Underground Railroad, but not 300

  21-07-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A meme claims abolitionist Harriet Tubman freed over 300 slaves for the Underground Railroad and had a $40,000 bounty on her head. We rate this claim partly false.
  
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• Editorial: Trump's census order defies the Constitution. Is he gaslighting, or just desperate?

  21-07-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's directive to strip non-citizens from the census' redistricting count defies the Constitution.
  
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• Biden launches wide battleground push with ads, surrogates

  21-07-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is ramping up its advertising and deploying some of its high-profile surrogates as it tries to solidify a broad battleground map that his advisers see as giving him multiple paths to an Electoral College majority.Biden’s Democratic campaign announced Tuesday a $15 million weeklong advertising campaign including television, digital, radio and print in six states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.President Donald T
  
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• Ukraine bus hostage-taking ends as 'unstable' armed man surrenders, officials say

  21-07-2020 22:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday detained a man who had taken more than a dozen hostages on a bus, ending a 12-hour standoff with police, officials said.
  
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• Portland protesters clash with federal law enforcement officers

  21-07-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal law enforcement officers have clashed with protesters in Portland, Ore. Both Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown want the federal officers to leave.
  
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• Former Bush DHS secretary rips Trump for treating department like 'the president's personal militia'

  21-07-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America's first secretary of homeland security thinks his former department has gotten its mission twisted.The Trump administration has sent federal agents into Portland, Oregon, and has suggested sending them to other cities in what it claims is an attempt to quell violent protests there. But Tom Ridge, a former two-term Republican governor of Pennsylvania who former President George W. Bush tapped as the first DHS head, told Sirius XM host Michael Smerconish on Tuesday that's not what DHS is m
  
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• Many countries have mask mandates, some of which include fines. They also have the pandemic under control

  21-07-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has long been reluctant to wear a mask in public, but on Monday he tweeted a photo of himself sporting one and encouraged his "patriotic" supporters to do the same.
  
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• A lesson for the US on masks from the rest of the world

  21-07-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has long been reluctant to wear a mask in public, but on Monday he tweeted a photo of himself sporting one and encouraged his "patriotic" supporters to do the same.
  
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• 'He's quit on you': Joe Biden says Trump does not care about America – video

  21-07-2020 21:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Joe Biden, in a scathing speech in his campaign to become the next US president,  said Donald Trump had 'quit' on US citizens and did not care about America.
  In a speech on his plan for the economy, in which he promised  to expand access to preschool for working families, directly linking the need for affordable childcare to America's economic recovery, Biden said Trump was not taking the public health crisis seriously.Trump signs executive order to exclude undocumented people fro
  
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• CNN's Alisyn Camerota on lawsuit: I guess Fox News is rotten to the core

  21-07-2020 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Alisyn Camerota reacts to a lawsuit filed in federal court against Fox News which accused former host Ed Henry of rape and alleged that he retaliated against two women who rejected his advances.
  
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• Brewery run by ex-Marine cancels Women for Trump event, saying he had been 'misled'

  21-07-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A veteran-owned brewery in Freeport, Maine, has cancelled a campaign event for president Donald Trump that was to be headlined by his daughter-in-law.The owners said they had been misled and were unaware it was an official campaign event and will close the brewery for the day instead.
  
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• CDC: Antibody tests show virus rates 10 times higher than reported

  21-07-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Still, most people in the U.S. have not been infected.
  
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• Video shows Trump in public just hours after mask tweet

  21-07-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump tweeted a rare photo of himself in a face mask after struggling in the polls, but just hours later he was seen in public without one.
  
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• See video of Trump just hours after mask tweet

  21-07-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump tweeted a rare photo of himself in a face mask after struggling in the polls, but just hours later he was seen in public without one.
  
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• Political spending at Trump properties tops $22 million

  21-07-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  Roughly $400,000 related to a donor retreat at the President's Florida beach club. More than $37,500 in rent last month at a Trump-owned office tower in New York and another $3,400 in "legal and IT consulting" paid to the Trump Organization.
  
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• Microsoft's work-from-home study learned what you already knew: Meetings are too long and people are working more during the pandemic

  21-07-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft analyzed the habits of its remote employees and learned they're having more 30 minute meetings while working through lunch and evenings.
  
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• Afghan girl kills two Taliban militants in fightback

  21-07-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The teenager is celebrated on social media after gunning down militants who killed her parents.
  
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• It's Long Past Time We Recognized All the Latinos Killed at the Hands of Police

  21-07-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than Hispanics have been killed by police in the U.S. since 2015. Julissa Arce writes that we should pay more attention to the long history of Latino deaths at the hands of law enforcement.
  
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• EU's coronavirus relief deal may have benefited from Brexit, economist suggests

  21-07-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After days of negotiations, European Union leaders on Tuesday agreed to a "historic" $2.1 trillion deal, which includes $857.33 billion in recovery funds to help member states climb out of the economic recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Does the bloc have Brexit to thank for getting it done?In his positive analysis of the deal Erik Fossing Nielsen, the chief economist at UniCredit, described the pact as perhaps the "first clear sign" of the United Kingdom's controversial departure
  
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• Seized Pakistani journalist released in Islamabad

  21-07-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A well-known Pakistani journalist who has long criticised the military and judicial establishment was freed late Tuesday after uniformed men had snatched him off an Islamabad street in broad daylight.Matiullah Jan, a freelancer who has worked for numerous local and foreign media outlets, had been bundled into the back of a car around midday outside a school in the capital, where he had come to see his wife."There were more than five people -- some in civilian clothes, others in black uniforms --
  
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• Apology demanded from GOP lawmaker for Ocasio-Cortez remark

  21-07-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top House Democrat demanded an apology Tuesday from a Republican lawmaker who is accused of using a sexist slur after an angry encounter with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.The Hill newspaper said one of its reporters witnessed the confrontation on Monday between Ocasio-Cortez and Florida Rep. Ted Yoho on the steps outside the Capitol.A spokesperson for Yoho, one of the House’s most conservative members, denied that he had used a sexist slur and instead contended that Yoho had said &ldquo
  
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• US Military Eyes Changes to Troop Presence in South Korea

  21-07-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. is keeping 28,500 troops in South Korea for now, but that could change.
  
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