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• US jails man who bought Lamborghini with government loan

  04-08-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Instead of speeding off in a $200,000 Lamborghini Urus, a Texas man got a slower ride to jail Tuesday after US authorities arrested him for using $1.6 million in government pandemic aid to go on a spending spree.Lee Price III, 29, was charged with fraud after he secured two government loans under the Paycheck Protection Program to pay employees he did not have, the Justice Department said in a statement.Price secured two loans: Price Enterprises Holdings allegedly received more than $900,000, wh
  
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• Uber announces employees can work from home through June 2021, and it's giving them $500 for their home office

  04-08-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Uber is joining the growing list of companies including Facebook and Google that are enacting work-from-home policies into the next year.
  
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• Fulham triumph in world's most lucrative football match, worth a possible $346 million

  04-08-2020 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Bryan's two extra-time goals secured Fulham a 2-1 victory against Brentford and a place in the English Premier League in what's been dubbed the world's most valuable football match in Tuesday's Championship play-off final.
  
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• Argentina secures deal on 'impossible' debt

  04-08-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Recession-hit Argentina announced on Tuesday it has reached an agreement with three major creditors over the restructuring of a $66 billion debt, which the IMF described as a "very significant step" to solving its latest sovereign default crisis.The government of President Alberto Fernandez had set an August 4 deadline to complete a deal but it has now pushed the date to August 24 "to give effect to the agreement," which came after months of wrangling and extensions."We resolved an impossible de
  
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• The moment the blast hit

  04-08-2020 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eyewitnesses describe the power of the deadly explosion that rocked Beirut.
  
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• CDC warns parents to be on lookout for acute flaccid myelitis in children

  04-08-2020 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Parents and pediatricians need to be on the lookout in the coming months for a rare, paralyzing condition that affects young children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
  
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• Tropical Storm Isaias lashes US East Coast, killing at least four

  04-08-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The storm caused flooding and tornadoes and has resulted in at least four deaths on the East Coast.
  
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• In pictures: Photos show scale of damage after massive blast

  04-08-2020 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  An explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has killed at least 50 people and injured more than 2,750, according to Health Minister Hamad Hassan.
  
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• Jonathan Swan does journalism with his face

  04-08-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There are 43 muscles in the human face and Jonathan Swan flexed all of them during his recent interview with the president of the United States, which aired Monday night on HBO. Throughout the 40-minute conversation, Swan's brow furrowed, his eyes squinted and bulged, his nose wrinkled. Sometimes his jaw would actually hang open, a cartoonish epitome of "incredulous."Such open expressions of disbelief when speaking with President Trump could arguably be considered rude (as if Trump hasn't rolled
  
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• North Korea's work on nuclear weapons includes 'miniaturized' devices, report says

  04-08-2020 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  North Korea is continuing work on its nuclear program and several countries believe Pyongyang has made gains in producing ballistic missiles with small nuclear devices attached, according to a confidential United Nations (UN) report, a UN diplomat told CNN.
  
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• At least 3 cruise ships are battling coronavirus outbreaks as the industry's return hits a rocky start

  04-08-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US isn't allowing sailing from its ports until October, but many ships in Europe have resumed sailings after a months-long pause.
  
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• A woman allegedly smashed a police officer's head into concrete after being told to wear a mask

  04-08-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman in Australia allegedly smashed a police officer's head into concrete after being told to wear a mask. The officer was left concussed.
  
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• China vows retaliation if US continues 'hostile actions' against journalists

  04-08-2020 23:17 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  China promised Tuesday that they would take necessary actions against American journalists in Hong Kong, if the U.S. did not stop all “hostile action[s]” and grant visa extensions to U.S.–based Chinese journalists.
  
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• There's a gorilla baby boom happening in Uganda

  04-08-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One week after a man was sentenced to 11 years in jail for killing Rafiki, a beloved gorilla living in a Ugandan national park, two new baby gorillas have been discovered in the same park.The babies were born in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in July to separate groups of gorillas, and both families are comfortable in the presence of humans. The newborns are part of a "baby boom in the protected forest popular with tourists," reports The Associated Press.> 02 gorillas have been born in two
  
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• Obama endorses challenger to Maine's Susan Collins, under fire for Kavanaugh confirmation vote

  04-08-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in a race that could help decide which party controls the Senate for at least the next two years.
  
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• Experts no longer expect seasonal coronavirus waves: The pandemic is like 'a forest fire looking for human wood to burn'

  04-08-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In April, US experts suggested there might be a second peak of coronavirus infections in the fall. But new data suggests it's not seasonal.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Terror, death, devastation in Lebanon explosion

  04-08-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As they watched a huge mushroom cloud rise over the seaport capital, many who felt the massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday thought it was a nuclear detonation.Others described the popping and bursting of fireworks and a raging fire that spread to another building, triggering the blast felt kilometers (miles) away.The explosion collapsed balconies, shattered windows and ripped bricks from buildings, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 3,000.
  
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• Trump on America's Covid-19 death toll: 'It is what it is'

  04-08-2020 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump fumbles over death toll numbers
  • Birx stung by first public attack from Trump
  
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• I flew on 2 leading low-cost airlines to see what budget flying looks like in a pandemic and found some cheaper carriers are doing a better job keeping you safe than their full-cost competitors

  04-08-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Low-cost airlines are showing up some of their more expensive, full-service competitors as paying less doesn't necessarily mean compromising safety.
  
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• Egypt to withdraw from latest dam talks for internal consultations: statement

  04-08-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Egypt said on Tuesday that it has decided to withdraw from the latest round of tripartite negotiations with Ethiopia over its multi-billion dollar dam on the Blue Nile for internal consultations after Addis Ababa proposed new draft of filling guidelines.The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is being built about 15 km (9 miles) from the Ethiopian border with Sudan on the Blue Nile, has become a major sticking point between the three countries.Egypt fears the $4 billion project could lead to
  
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• Anti-death penalty groups sue, say roadblocks impede speech

  04-08-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anti-death penalty activists asked a judge in a Tuesday lawsuit to order Indiana State Police to stop blocking roads to a prison where federal executions have resumed after a 17-year pause, arguing that the roadblocks constitute unconstitutional no-protest zones and impede protesters’ free-speech rights.Hours before three July executions, troopers cut off public roads to the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, where all federal executions are carried out by lethal injecti
  
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• A massive explosion just devastated Beirut. Here's what the unbelievable destruction looks like for people on the ground.

  04-08-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Buildings have been torn apart, and casualties are mounting. One reporter who was on the scene said that it is "absolute chaos" in Beirut.
  
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• Beirut blasts likely accidental – but Hezbollah activities at the port under scrutiny

  04-08-2020 22:43 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A series of massive explosions rocked Beirut’s port on Tuesday – a mushroom cloud rising above the widespread destruction that claimed the lives of at least 50 people and wounded hundreds more in the Lebanon capital.
  
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• Los Angeles deputy says colleagues are part of violent gang

  04-08-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A violent gang of Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies who call themselves “The Executioners” control a patrol station in Compton through force, threats, work slowdowns and acts of revenge against those who speak out, a deputy alleges in a legal claim.Austreberto Gonzalez, a former Marine and a sheriff's deputy since 2007, said in a notice of claim ahead of a planned lawsuit that the gang retaliated against him for months after he anonymously reported a fellow deputy for allegedly a
  
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• Rafa Nadal opts out of defending US Open title

  04-08-2020 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  Citing the "complicated" nature of the world under the pandemic, Rafael Nadal has opted not to defend his US Open title later this month in Flushing Meadows, New York.
  
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• Tropical storm Isaias races up East Coast, leaving 2 dead and 2 million without power

  04-08-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Isaias is wasting no time moving up the East Coast, after making landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane late Monday night.Two people in Windsor, North Carolina, died early Tuesday morning after a tornado generated by the storm tore through a marshy neighborhood. Before arriving in the U.S., Isaias killed two people in the Caribbean, Time reports.As of 3 p.m. ET, the storm was near New York's Hudson Valley with maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour, moving nort
  
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• 5 science-backed benefits of vitamin B12 and how to get enough of it in your diet

  04-08-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There are many health benefits of vitamin B12 from red blood cell production to growing healthy hair and nails.
  
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• Massive Beirut Explosion Shows Mushroom Clouds Aren't Just for Nukes

  04-08-2020 22:31 via popularmechanics.com
  
  Physics explains why the intense blast produced the menacing mushroom shape.
  
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• Army Special Forces Colonel Faces Court-Martial on Sexual Assault Charges

  04-08-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Col. Kevin M. Russell is facing five counts of violating Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
  
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• Watch posing tourist snap toes off 19th-century statue

  04-08-2020 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  Surveillance footage from a museum in Italy shows a tourist sitting on a 200-year old statue and breaking three of its toes off.
  
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• Trump security adviser warns against foreign military involvement in Libya

  04-08-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Tuesday condemned all foreign military involvement in Libya, including the use of mercenaries and private military contractors, and said Libyans themselves must rebuild a unified country.U.S. President Donald Trump had spoken with several world leaders about Libya in past weeks, and it was clear there was "no winning side," U.S. national security adviser Robert O'Brien said in a statement on Tuesday.
  
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• Inside Trump's TikTok reversal

  04-08-2020 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  • ByteDance CEO: This is Trump's real goal for TikTok
  • China accuses US of trying to steal TikTok
  
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• An Arkansas Black Lives Matter group was confronted by an armed militia. One protester carried a flamethrower as a 'deterrent.'

  04-08-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An organizer told Insider that he received more than 100 death threats from people who oppose the Black Lives Matter movement.
  
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• Keilar pushes back on Trump campaign claims of voter fraud

  04-08-2020 22:21 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar fact checks Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp's position that mail in voting can lead to election fraud.
  
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• Factory exposion in China's Hubei province kills at least 6, report says

  04-08-2020 22:21 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Six people were killed and four others injured in an explosion Tuesday at a chemical factory near the Chinese city of Wuhan, according to a report.
  
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• CNN Anchor Drags Trump Campaign Adviser: ‘You’re Just Saying a Bunch of Crap!’

  04-08-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Tuesday got fed up with Trump campaign senior advisor Mercedes Schlapp during a heated exchange on mail-in voting, eventually telling the longtime lobbyist that their conversation was “pointless” because she was “just saying a bunch of crap.”Keilar, who in recent weeks has held various pro-Trump figures’ feet to the fire in combative interviews, brought on Schlapp to talk about President Donald Trump’s sudden pivot to encouraging F
  
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• Sen. Ron Wyden is introducing a privacy bill that would ban government agencies from buying personal information from data brokers

  04-08-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The bill, dubbed "The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale," is expected to roll out in the coming weeks, per a report from The Verge.
  
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• Husband of LA district attorney charged after pointing gun at Black Lives Matter protesters

  04-08-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  David Lacey, whose wife Jackie Lacey is running for re-election, has been charged with multiple firearm assaults The husband of the Los Angeles district attorney has been charged with multiple firearm assaults after he pointed a gun at Black Lives Matter activists and said, “I will shoot you.”David Lacey, whose wife Jackie Lacey is the elected prosecutor currently running for re-election, is facing three misdemeanor charges for pointing his firearm at three organizers who were protes
  
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• Impeachment counsel: Bolton could've 'proved' impeachment articles, wanted 'pay day'

  04-08-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Norm Eisen, impeachment counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, gives Linsey Davis an insider account of the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
  
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• Martinez couple charged with hate crime after allegedly defacing BLM mural appear in court

  04-08-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nicole Anderson and David Nelson entered not guilty pleas to three misdemeanor charges. Their attorney calls the charges outrageous and politicized.
  
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• Student wearing 'Black Lives Matter' mask in graduation procession told to remove it

  04-08-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dean Holmes, 18, was allowed to march in the ceremony with the rest of his classmates after removing the mask.
  
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• Remember when Dolly Parton fully subverted the 'dumb blonde' cliché with her 80s excess styling?

  04-08-2020 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  At the Los Angeles premiere of "Steel Magnolias" on November 9, 1989, country diva Dolly Parton was a walking embodiment of that decade of excess: skyscraper hair, elongated nails, pneumatic boobs, and a dress smothered in rhinestones. "I kinda patterned my look after Cinderella and Mother Goose -- and the local hooker," she once said, always ready to beat her critics to a punchline.
  
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• Look back on Dolly Parton's sixty years of style

  04-08-2020 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  For over six decades, on stage and screen, Dolly Parton's look has remained unmistakable. CNN Style looks back.
  
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• CNN Style looks back on six decades of Dolly Parton

  04-08-2020 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  For over six decades, on stage and screen, Dolly Parton's look has remained unmistakable. CNN Style looks back.
  
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• CNN looks back on six decades of Dolly Parton

  04-08-2020 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  For over six decades, on stage and screen, Dolly Parton's look has remained unmistakable. CNN Style looks back.
  
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• Student wearing 'Black Lives Matter' mask at graduation told to remove it

  04-08-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dean Holmes, 18, was allowed to march in the ceremony with the rest of his classmates after removing the mask.
  
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• Ford's CEO switch-out shows that the automaker is still a family business — and that Bill Ford is still in charge

  04-08-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Henry Ford's great-grandson stepped down as CEO of his family's automaker in 2006, but still commands a leading role.
  
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• Ben Wedeman reports from wrecked CNN bureau

  04-08-2020 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  A massive explosion ripped through central Beirut, Lebanon, injuring hundreds of people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from the damaged CNN bureau.
  
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• McConnell says will support any coronavirus aid deal worked out by White House and Democrats

  04-08-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he would support any coronavirus aid deal worked out between the Trump administration and Democrats in Congress, adding no agreement this close to November elections would win unanimous support."Wherever this thing settles between the president of the United States and his team that have to sign it into law, and the Democrat -- not insignificant minority in the Senate and the majority in the House -- is something I'm prepared to support
  
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• Fauci says there are 2 reasons we should reopen schools

  04-08-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Monday, Dr. Fauci said school reopenings are important for kids' development and their families' livelihoods, but "we must not compromise" safety.
  
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