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• Why SpaceX's astronaut mission for NASA is such a big deal for Elon Musk's rocket company and the US as a whole

  31-07-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If SpaceX successfully returns NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth, it will open a new era of commercial human spaceflight.
  
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• Senate Democrats press Postal Service on delivery complaints

  31-07-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday pressed new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about complaints from Americans about slow delivery since he took office in June and whether service problems could hinder attempts to mail in 2020 election ballots during the pandemic.Gary Peters, top Democrat on the committee overseeing the Postal Service, along with Amy Klobuchar, Tom Carper and Charles Schumer sought answers about mail delivery under DeJoy, a top supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump who was a
  
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• GOP leaders can't bank on Trump's help in Kansas Senate race

  31-07-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Establishment Republican leaders are scrambling to pull out a win in a tense party battle for the nomination in the Kansas Senate race, and they won't be able to count on last-minute help from President Donald Trump.Trump has signaled to allies and aides that he won't endorse in the primary between Rep. Roger Marshall, the preferred candidate of Washington Republicans, and conservative lightning-rod Kris Kobach.Although GOP leaders believe Kobach's hardline anti-immigration message is too divisi
  
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• U.S. to hike fees for immigration benefits

  31-07-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Under the new rule, the U.S. will start charging for asylum applications for the first time in its history.
  
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• Hard-hit Massachusetts worries COVID-19 respite is fleeting

  31-07-2020 23:51
  
  Massachusetts widely reopened its economy early in July, but less than a month later, there’s an increasing sense of dread that the hard-hit state’s respite from the pandemic ultimately will be fleeting
  
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• Trump news: President threatens Portland protesters with ‘strong offensive force’ as White House condemns delay of Hong Kong elections

  31-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has threatened Portland protesters with "very strong offensive force" as the federal government and residents continue to clash in the liberal city. The president warned he might send the National Guard to stop the "terrorists" in the city.In Albuquerque, meanwhile, activists vowed to meet federal agents with peaceful protests and civil disobedience as Trump said the government's response would expand to more cities, including Detroit, Cleveland and Milwaukee.
  
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• Supreme Court sides with Trump on building border wall with diverted military funds

  31-07-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Supreme Court rebuffs Sierra Club and House Democrats who said Trump was spending billions in defiance of Congress.
  
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• DC releases police footage from 2018 deaths of 3 Black men

  31-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Under pressure from the D.C. Council, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department on Friday released long-sought body camera and security footage from the 2018 deaths of three young Black men in 2018.The release was compelled by an emergency police reform bill that Mayor Muriel Bowser criticized as rushed.“The council has determined that this is the statute, that’s the law of the land and we’re going to abide by it,” said MPD Chief Peter Newsham.
  
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• James Murdoch Quits News Corp Board Over Editorial Disagreements

  31-07-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  James Murdoch has resigned from the board of his family’s news behemoth, News Corp, due to disagreements over editorial content published by the company’s notoriously right-wing outlets, The Daily Beast has confirmed.“Mr. Murdoch informed the Company that his resignation was due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions,” a company statement said. He was immediately scrubbed from the
  
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• US Majority leader McConnell tells Senate candidates: Distance from Trump if needed

  31-07-2020 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Mitch McConnell is allowing Republican Senate candidates to do whatever it takes to salvage their campaigns ahead of what Republicans increasingly fear could be a devastating election for their party.
  
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• US Majority leader McConnell tells GOP candidates: Distance from Trump if you need to

  31-07-2020 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  • Joe Biden narrows down his VP list, and a dark-horse candidate emerges
  
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• Jake Tapper: How on Earth can Congress adjourn for the weekend?

  31-07-2020 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  The House and Senate have adjourned for the weekend without coming to an agreement on a new economic stimulus package despite the looming deadline for unemployment benefits that many have relied on during the coronavirus pandemic. CNN's Manu Raju discusses with Jake Tapper.
  
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• They were abandoned by Trump last year. See how they're doing now

  31-07-2020 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  In October 2019, Turkey invaded neighboring northern Syria and the US abandoned its Kurdish allies there. CNN's Arwa Damon reports on the Kurdish community in Syria nine months after the US abandoned them.
  
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• How the Kurds are in Syria doing nine months after the US left

  31-07-2020 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
  
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• Boeing wins $265 million to build more special ops Chinook helos

  31-07-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Army has minted another deal with Boeing for more Chinooks for special ops.
  
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• Philippines' police have arrested 76,000 people for breaching lockdown as Duterte wages war on COVID-19 just like his war on drugs

  31-07-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Political science professor Aries Arugay told the Washington Post Duterte's government was a "one-trick pony."
  
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• ICE agents defend policy they knew would increase border deaths: 'That's not the same as actively killing those people.'

  31-07-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Netflix's forthcoming six-part docuseries Immigration Nation is being hailed as "the most important TV show you'll see in 2020" and a "damning examination of how ICE and the immigration system" operate. One of the most disturbing moments comes when ICE agents defend a policy of pushing migrants into known dangerous territory — both to make them easier to catch, and also evidently because it could result in their deaths.The policy dates back to the 1990s, when politicians wanted to force mi
  
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• Trump administration overspent on ventilators by as much as $500 million, Democrats' report says

  31-07-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The American people got ripped off, and Donald Trump and his team got taken to the cleaners," said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi.
  
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• Kamala Harris is reportedly losing favorite status in the tumultuous Biden veepstakes. Here's why.

  31-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Skepticism around Harris from Biden's inner circle of family and elder statesmen like Chris Dodd all goes back to her big debate moment.
  
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• AP Analysis: Why Trump's election delay tweet matters

  31-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s pattern is now familiar: He makes a stunning assertion, on Twitter or impromptu.The fear among Democrats and many elections experts in 2020, however, has been that Trump would wield the power of his office to affect the outcome of the election or Americans’ ability to vote — particularly if he thought he might be headed for defeat.
  
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• U.S. appeals court delays release of Ghislaine Maxwell deposition

  31-07-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily delayed the release of a 2016 deposition about Ghislaine Maxwell's sex life, after she argued it could destroy her ability to get a fair trial against criminal charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the order after last-ditch scrambles by Maxwell to keep potentially embarrassing information, which her lawyer said could make it "difficult if not impossible" to find an impa
  
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• Karl Rove on how coronavirus response could impact 2020 election

  31-07-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News contributor Karl Rove responds to Biden's criticism of Trump's coronavirus response.
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg released from hospital after bile duct procedure

  31-07-2020 23:04
  
  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who recently announced that she is battling a recurrence of cancer, has been hospitalized in New York City.
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg discharged from hospital

  31-07-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from a hospital on Friday after undergoing a procedure on a bile duct stent earlier in the week, a court statement said.Ginsburg, at 87 the oldest member of the Supreme Court and its senior liberal justice, is at home and "doing well," the statement added.Ginsburg, who has had a series of health issues, said two weeks ago she was receiving chemotherapy treatment for a recurrence of cancer after a biopsy revealed lesions on her liver b
  
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• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ popularity plummets amid widely panned coronavirus response

  31-07-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the span of a few months Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has gone from one of the most admired state leaders in America to one of the most disparaged.
  
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• Here are all the famous people Jeffrey Epstein was connected to

  31-07-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers testified in court that Bill Clinton visited Epstein's island, unsealed documents show.
  
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• Woman who filmed Florida police officer drawing gun during pullover arrested after failing to return vehicle

  31-07-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joneshia Wilkerson, 23, was arrested on suspicion of failure to return a leased vehicle and fraudulent use of a credit card.
  
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• Meet Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, 2 'badass' astronauts, engineers, and dads who are flying SpaceX's Crew Dragon back to Earth this weekend

  31-07-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug "Chunky" Hurley are nearing the end of SpaceX's first crewed mission. This weekend, they're slated to come home.
  
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• CDC: Isolating until COVID-19 test results come back could slow its spread

  31-07-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal government will now reimburse doctors who tell their patients to isolate while they wait for their test results to come back.
  
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• McConnell to Republican candidates: Distance from Trump if necessary

  31-07-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Mitch McConnell is allowing Republican Senate candidates to do whatever it takes to salvage their campaigns ahead of what Republicans increasingly fear could be a devastating election for their party.
  
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• Can you get Covid-19 through your eyes? Possibly. Should we all be wearing goggles? Probably not.

  31-07-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  We know that the coronavirus can enter the body through the nose and mouth -- hence the constant recommendations from doctors to wear face coverings and practice social distancing.
  
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• Cultural genocide? What China is doing in Tibet today

  31-07-2020 22:53 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  While much of the international community has turned its attention to the abuses taking place against the Uighur Muslims in the Chinese province of Xingang – some activists are also pointing to the human rights horrors against Buddhists in Tibet – a decades-long conflict that has long tumbled from the limelight.
  
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• Trump says he's voting absentee in the 2020 election after months of baseless attacks on mail-in voting

  31-07-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump has drawn a false distinction between absentee and mail-in voting, which are virtually the same thing. He is voting by mail in 2020.
  
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• Hong Kong 'seeking arrest' of fleeing activists

  31-07-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six activists, including some now in the UK, are reportedly wanted under the new security law.
  
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• Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence overturned

  31-07-2020 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to vacate the death sentence of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
  
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• Fauci explains why Europe contained the pandemic better

  31-07-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  US states' "diversity of response" hampered the country's ability to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a Congressional hearing on Friday.
  
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• Ex-Weinstein Attorney Lisa Bloom Loses Money Grab in Autistic Kid’s Settlement

  31-07-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal magistrate on Friday denied attorneys’ fees to camera-ready victims’ rights lawyer Lisa Bloom, who had tried to block a multimillion-dollar settlement for a sexually abused autistic teenager who was briefly Bloom’s client.San Francisco-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler instead invalidated Bloom’s lien on the settlement from the West Contra Costa Unified School District and awarded $2,250,000—a figure which includes costs and attorneys’ fees&m
  
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• Boston marathon bombing: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence overturned by appeals court

  31-07-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal appeals court has overturned the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence.The decision by a three-judge panel says that the judge that oversaw the original case did not adequately screen the jury for potential biases.
  
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• Joe Biden's search for a running mate enters final stretch

  31-07-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Joe Biden nears the announcement of his vice presidential choice, the top contenders and their advocates are making final appeals.The campaign hasn't finalized a date for naming a running mate, but three people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans said a public announcement likely wouldn't happen before the week of Aug. 10.Biden said in May that he hoped to name his pick around Aug. 1 and told reporters this week that he would “have a choice in the first week of Augu
  
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• Trump says he doesn’t 'think' Herman Cain caught coronavirus at the Tulsa rally

  31-07-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Herman Cain, the entrepreneur, conservative commentator and 2012 presidential candidate, passed away on Thursday due to complications from COVID-19. The 74-year-old contracted the virus in late June, days after attending a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla.
  
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• 'Alarms are going off' as NJ coronavirus cases rise

  31-07-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The "alarms are going off," New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy warned as the coronavirus transmission rate hit its highest level in three months.
  
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• House Democrats subpoena Pompeo for documents on Biden's son

  31-07-2020 22:31
  
  The House Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents he turned over to a Senate panel that is investigating Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
  
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• Boston Marathon bombing: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence overturned

  31-07-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An appeals court orders a partial retrial over the deadly bombing during the 2013 Boston Marathon.
  
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• Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok, reports say, as Trump expected to order parent company to sell US operations

  31-07-2020 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  People working on the issue within the Trump administration expect the President will sign an order to force Chinese company ByteDance to sell the US operations of TikTok, its popular short-form video app, according to a person familiar with the matter.
  
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• Joe Biden narrows down his VP list, and a candidate emerges

  31-07-2020 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Biden heads into the weekend weighing the biggest decision of his presidential campaign so far, and people close to the process tell CNN that the former vice president is believed to have now begun to narrow his personal shortlist of potential running mates to a handful of women.
  
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• Claudia Conway is criticizing the Trump administration in tweets to Kellyanne Conway, claiming it is 'complicit' in Herman Cain's death

  31-07-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The teenager, who frequently posts anti-Trump content on social media, says it was not her intention to "bash" her mother.
  
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• Activists in Albuquerque vow to meet Trump's federal agents with peaceful protests and civil disobedience

  31-07-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Albuquerque protesters have said they will meet federal agents sent by Donald Trump with civil disobedience and peaceful protests.After an announcement this week that federal agents were pulling out of Portland, the US president announced more agents would be going to Albuquerque to combat violent crime in the city,
  
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• U.S. makes deal for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine, deaths expected to rise

  31-07-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The agreement calls for the U.S. government to pay French drug maker Sanofiand British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline up to $2.1 billion to supply it with enough vaccines for 50 million people, with the option to buy another 500 million doses.The purchase falls under the Trump administration's so-called Operation Warp Speed, intended to rush a COVID-19 vaccine to the market by the end of 2020."Today’s investment supports our latest vaccine candidate, an adjuvanted product being devel
  
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• Florida sets new coronavirus record as U.S. lawmakers bicker at hearing

  31-07-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state health department said Florida registered 257 fatalities, a record for the fourth straight day despite predictions that the U.S. coronavirus epicenter could be shifting to the Midwest.In numerical terms, the one-day loss of life in Florida was roughly equivalent to the number of passengers on a single-aisle airplane.Florida also reported 9,007 new cases, bringing its total infections to over 470,000, the second highest in the country behind California.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi defends cannabis provision in Democrats' coronavirus aid package

  31-07-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nancy Pelosi said the cannabis provision "is by no means of the caliber of money or misrepresentation" as the Republicans' stimulus proposal.
  
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