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• Under ICE rules and visa complications, a semester with no new international students awaits

  30-07-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the resurgence of coronavirus pushes some schools to go fully online, the latest ruling leaves new international students with hard choices.
  
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• How Kamala Harris rose from California's 'top cop' to Joe Biden's potential vice presidential running mate

  30-07-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Kamala Harris went from San Francisco district attorney to a presidential candidate in just eight years.
  
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• Justin Trudeau tells MPs he did not intervene to award contract to charity

  30-07-2020 23:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Canadian PM’s family had done paid work for We Charity Trudeau: ‘I did absolutely nothing to influence’ decisionJustin Trudeau has told parliament he did not intervene to make sure a charity his family did paid work for would win a government contract. Related: Justin Trudeau faces calls for criminal investigation into family's charity linksContinue reading...
  
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• Trump news: President doubles down on possible election delay and threatens to send National Guard to Portland

  30-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's tweet suggesting that the 2020 presidential election could be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic set off a day of wild speculation as to whether he would, could, or how that would even look if he did.After saying that a mail-in ballot system would create the "most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history", the president double-downed during his White House press conference, saying he doesn't want to wait weeks, months or even years for the result of the election to be
  
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• The astronauts who flew SpaceX's Crew Dragon to the space station are set to come home on Sunday. Watch their fiery return flight live.

  30-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Saturday and Sunday, SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship will make its return trip to Earth. Here's how to watch that journey live.
  
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• Oprah Winfrey honors Breonna Taylor with September magazine cover

  30-07-2020 23:44 via theguardian.com
  
  First time magazine will not feature Winfrey on coverTaylor, 26, was shot dead by police in own home in MarchA portrait of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black emergency medical technician shot dead by police in her own home earlier this year, will appear on the cover of the latest issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.It is the first time in the magazine’s 20-year history that the cover will not feature the magazine’s namesake: Oprah Winfrey. Continue reading...
  
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• 'People were sick to their stomachs with his fake sincerity': Frustrated Amazon sellers slam Bezos for claiming his retail platform empowers small businesses

  30-07-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos maintained that Amazon elevates small business owners, like its Amazon sellers. Some Amazon sellers don't agree.
  
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• Trump did not attend John Lewis' funeral. Here are 4 other major funerals he missed while president.

  30-07-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has been MIA at a handful of funerals where former presidents and dignitaries attended and delivered eulogies.
  
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• British Airways is auctioning millions of dollars worth of lounge art in a hasty attempt to raise cash – see the extravagant collection

  30-07-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The entire collection was valued by auction house Sotheby's at around $1.7 million but one piece auctioned so far fetched more than that by itself.
  
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• Hypersonic Weapons Testing Faces a Big Problem: Killer Whales

  30-07-2020 23:30 via popularmechanics.com
  
  Washington State officials say that planned firings of the new Hyper Velocity Projectile will harass killer whales, a federally protected marine mammal.
  
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• Mexican ex-security minister hit with new charge in U.S. corruption case

  30-07-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Garcia Luna, a minister during the term of former President Felipe Calderon, now faces a charge of "engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise," the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.In January, Garcia Luna pleaded not guilty to accusations of drug trafficking conspiracy and making false statements.Two former law enforcement officials who worked under Garcia Luna were also each charged with three counts of cocaine trafficking, the DOJ said on Thursday.
  
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• Black conservative journalist stabbed at Portland protest, ‘This is no longer about black lives’

  30-07-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrew Duncomb, a 25-year-old Black Trump supporter and journalist said he was stabbed outside Portland’s federal courthouse for his conservative politics. In his first on-camera interview, Duncomb shares his firsthand account of being knifed in the back while out filming a protest in Portland early Saturday morning.
  
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• US frowns upon Iranian supermarket in Venezuela's capital

  30-07-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. officials frowned upon the opening of an Iranian supermarket in Venezuela's capital, saying Thursday that any presence of Iran in the Western Hemisphere is "not something we look very favorably on.”Acting Assistant Secretary for U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Michael Kozak told journalists in a call that the opening of the market shows this is like an alliance of “pariah” states.“I would be surely surprised if Venezuela is able
  
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• Mexican president orders creation of state-run medicine agency

  30-07-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's government will create a state-run medicine distribution agency and will sign an agreement with the United Nations to purchase cheaper drugs and vaccines on the international market, the country's president said on Thursday.Lopez Obrador said the distribution agency will make sure residents even in the far-flung corners of Mexico have access to medications and vaccines.The current head of Mexico's civil protection agency, David Leon, will lead the new state-run agency.
  
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• Prosecutor: No charges for officer in Michael Brown’s death

  30-07-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  St. Louis County’s prosecutor announced Thursday that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about racial injustice and the police treatment of people of color.Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell's decision marked the third time prosecutors investigated and opted not to charge Darren Wilson, the white officer who fatally shot Brown, a Bl
  
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• Explainer: Why Election Day could be just the start of a long battle over the U.S. presidency

  30-07-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to change the date of the election - and with Democrats in control of the U.S. House of Representatives, there is essentially no chance of that happening.In many states, they can arrive after Election Day, and officials must open them by hand and verify signatures.Already this year, some primary elections held mostly by mail have remained unsettled for weeks after Election Day.
  
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• Fact check: Joe Biden didn't take a knee upon seeing a flag; he was talking to a child

  30-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While visiting his childhood home this month, the presidential candidate kneeled to talk to a child. It's false to say he "took a knee" for the flag.
  
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• Americans blame China for its role in the spread of coronavirus, survey finds

  30-07-2020 23:08 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A new Pew Research Center survey found over three-quarters of American adults blame the Chinese government for the global spread of the coronavirus and over 60 percent of respondents said the country has done a poor job handling the aftermath of the outbreak. 
  
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• 'It's About the Core Values of Black Lives Matter.' Portland Activists Are Trying to Remind People Why They Started Protesting to Begin With

  30-07-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police brutality was a “problem way before the (federal) troops came,” says Demetria Hester, a Black mother and grandmother who has frequently been showing up to protests since May.
  
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• Tropical Storm Isaias sets a new hurricane-season record as it triggers blackouts and flooding in Puerto Rico

  30-07-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Isaias caused power outages and flooding in Puerto Rico. It's headed toward southern Florida.
  
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• Florida couple jailed for breaking COVID-19 quarantine

  30-07-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Neighbors videotaped the couple flouting the requirement and then handed the telltale tape over to the Key West police.
  
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• U.S. government to launch 'overwhelming' COVID-19 vaccine campaign by November

  30-07-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The fine line we are walking is getting the American people very excited about vaccines and missing expectations versus having a bunch of vaccines in the warehouse and not as many people want to get it," the official said."You may not hear a lot about promoting vaccines over the airwaves in August and September but you'll be overwhelmed by it come November."The official cautioned that there is still uncertainty around the timing of when a vaccine will actually be available.
  
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• Trump's election tweet shows a frightened narcissist afraid of losing

  30-07-2020 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump doesn't really like democracy.
  
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• Trump's election tweet shows a frightened narcissist

  30-07-2020 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump doesn't really like democracy.
  
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• The tweet of a frightened narcissist afraid of losing

  30-07-2020 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump doesn't really like democracy.
  
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• ‘He’s Terrified of Losing’—Trump Goes Into Hyperdrive to Delegitimize the Election

  30-07-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As much of the political world went into an uproar over Donald Trump floating the idea of delaying the November election, inside the president’s orbit, his Thursday morning tweet suggesting just that was seen as something far narrower and more strategically focused.The president isn’t really trying to delay the vote. He is trying to preemptively delegitimize the likely results.Two administration officials and another individual close to the president say that what they saw Thursday m
  
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• Barack Obama's powerfully political eulogy for John Lewis – video

  30-07-2020 22:51 via theguardian.com
  
  During the funeral of congressman John Lewis, former US president Barack Obama delivered a powerful eulogy in which he praised the late civil rights icon, saying Lewis 'will be a founding father of a fuller, fairer, better America'. In his speech, Obama also received standing ovations for his indirect criticism of the Trump administration's decision to send federal agents to peaceful demonstrations in Portland, and his condemnation of voter suppression tactics in the USObama hails John Lewi
  
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• Kamala Harris is on Joe Biden's vice presidential shortlist. Here's what the former presidential candidate ran on.

  30-07-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kamala Harris, a US senator from California, is also the state's former attorney general. She dropped out of the race on December 3.
  
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• There is no 'zero risk' in easing travel restrictions, WHO says

  30-07-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a long-awaited update to its guidance on travel, the United Nations global health agency said cross-border trips for emergencies, humanitarian work, the transfer of essential personnel and repatriation would constitute essential travel."There is no 'zero risk' when considering the potential importation or exportation of cases in the context of international travel," it said in the updated guidance posted on its website on Thursday.A surge of new infections in many parts of the world has promp
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell files emergency appeal to block release of deposition on her sex life

  30-07-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, on Thursday urged a U.S. appeals court to block the release of a deposition about her sex life, saying it could destroy her ability to get a fair trial against criminal charges she aided the late financier's sexual abuse of girls.Maxwell filed an emergency request with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan one day after a federal judge rejected her claim that her need for confidentiality outweighed the public's right to s
  
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• Minnesota police make arrest in 34-year cold case using DNA, genetic testing

  30-07-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “My mom loved to help people,” her daughter Gina Haggard wrote in a statement read by police.
  
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• Poll puts Biden over Trump in 6 swing states

  30-07-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden is still looking good in key swing states across the country.In May, a poll from a British consulting firm Redfield & Wilton Strategies put Biden ahead of President Trump in six states Trump won in 2016: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Redfield & Wilton Strategies' July poll shows Biden still has a lead in all of those states, and even widened it in three of them.While Biden had 4 percent lead over Trump in Arizona,
  
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• Walsh on Trump tweet: I don't give a damn if he's joking, he said it

  30-07-2020 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh reacts to a tweet by President Donald Trump in which he suggests delaying November's presidential election.
  
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• Walsh on Trump tweet: I don't give a damn if he's joking

  30-07-2020 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh reacts to a tweet by President Donald Trump in which he suggests delaying November's presidential election.
  
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• Joe Walsh: I don't give a damn if he's joking, he said it

  30-07-2020 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh reacts to a tweet by President Donald Trump in which he suggests delaying November's presidential election.
  
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• Former congressman: I don't give a damn if he's joking, he said it

  30-07-2020 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh reacts to a tweet by President Donald Trump in which he suggests delaying November's presidential election.
  
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• Trump loyalist who tested positive for coronavirus is America’s ‘dumbest’ congressman, says Lincoln Project co-founder

  30-07-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The co-founder of Republican anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project has called congressman Louie Gohmert ”America’s craziest and dumbest congressman”, following confirmation he tested positive for coronavirus.Steve Schmidt co-founded the Republican political action committee that is aiming to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump, alongside George Conway, the husband of the president’s adviser Kellyanne Conway.
  
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• Pompeo covers for Trump claims at Congress

  30-07-2020 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the first time in more than a year, was grilled by lawmakers on events that ranged from President Donald Trump's apparent threats against a US diplomat in 2019 to Trump's suggestion just minutes after the hearing began that November's elections be delayed.
  
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• Obama hails John Lewis as founding father of ‘fuller, better’ US in eulogy

  30-07-2020 21:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Former president called for Americans to fight Trump’s effort to undermine the right to vote in eulogy at congressman’s funeralBarack Obama hailed John Lewis as a founding father of “a fuller, better” United States in a soaring eulogy on Thursday,while forcefully calling on Americans to stand up to the forces threatening a cause the late congressman was willing to die for: the right to vote.From the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King Jr
  
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• A threat to democracy we all should have seen coming

  30-07-2020 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  When I read President Trump's Thursday morning tweet floating a "delay" of the presidential election, I thought back to the first weekend of his presidency.
  
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• 260 Chinese boats fish near Galapagos; Ecuador on alert

  30-07-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some call it a floating city, a flotilla of 260 mostly Chinese fishing vessels near the Galapagos archipelago that is stirring diplomatic tension and raising worries about the threat to sharks, manta rays and other vulnerable species in waters around the UNESCO world heritage site.The Chinese fleet is “very close" to the edge of the exclusive economic zone around the Galapagos, which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from the archipelago, said its governor, Norman Wray.
  
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• Trudeau says he didn't offer charity preferential treatment

  30-07-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he did not intervene to make sure a charity his family did paid work for would win a government contract.Trudeau has apologized and said again that he should have recused himself from a Cabinet decision to award a contract to administer money to students having trouble finding work due to the pandemic.“We Charity received no preferential treatment, not from me, not from anyone else,” said Trudeau, who noted it was the government pu
  
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• Obama gives most forceful address since leaving office and takes aim at Trump in eulogy for John Lewis

  30-07-2020 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  • Obama: 'America was built by John Lewises'
  • John Lewis' final message for Americans
  
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• NASA's Mars rover is carrying a device that turns CO2 into oxygen, like a tree. It's a crucial step toward future human missions.

  30-07-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA's Mars rover, Perseverance, is on its way to Mars carrying an experiment known as MOXIE that will convert the thin atmosphere into oxygen.
  
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• Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs

  30-07-2020 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  Adapted from "TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: The Investigation of Donald Trump," by Jeffrey Toobin. Copyright © 2020. Available from Doubleday.
  
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• FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs

  30-07-2020 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  Adapted from "TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: The Investigation of Donald Trump," by Jeffrey Toobin. Copyright © 2020. Available from Doubleday.
  
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• CDC: Hundreds sick, 1 dead in nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to chicks, ducklings

  30-07-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One person has died and nearly 1,000 have been sickened, the CDC says. Every state except Hawaii and Rhode Island has now reported at least one case.
  
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• Austin, Texas, joins growing number of U.S. cities in declaring racism a 'public health crisis'

  30-07-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of cities and counties have passed similar declarations in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
  
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• Republican says he will take Trump-promoted Covid-19 treatment after implying he contracted coronavirus by wearing a mask

  30-07-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Texas Republican who tested positive for Covid-19 wrongly suggested he may have contracted the novel coronavirus by wearing a face mask — and said he would be taking an unproven treatment touted by Donald Trump.Louie Gohmert (R—Tx) tested positive on Wednesday during a White House procedural screening just before he was set to fly with the president to Texas on Air Force One.
  
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• In his eulogy, Obama connects John Lewis' life work to political fights of today

  30-07-2020 21:14 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump skipping funeral is a stark reminder
  • John Lewis' final message for Americans
  
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