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• Jerry Falwell Jr. will take leave of absence from Liberty University

  07-08-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, has agreed to take an "indefinite leave of absence," according to a statement Friday from the evangelical Christian university.
  
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• What we can learn from Covid-19 for the climate crisis

  07-08-2020 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Bill Weir explores what we can learn from Covid-19 to better prepare for the impact of the climate crisis.
  
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• Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. is taking an 'indefinite' leave of absence

  07-08-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Falwell Jr. was heavily criticized this week after he posted and deleted a photo of himself on a yacht with his pants unzipped and arm around a woman.
  
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• Democrats are playing 'political chicken' during coronavirus pandemic: Charlie Hurt

  07-08-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt reacts to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, lashing out at PBS' Judy Woodruff during an interview where she suggested the anchor was a GOP advocate. He later talks about the New York Attorney General suing to dissolve the NRA and how the negotiations are going in Congress over additional stimulus for unemployed Americans.
  
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• Obesity, race play roles in severe COVID-19 illness among kids

  07-08-2020 23:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  As of July 31, more than 338,000 children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
  
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• California county will pay people diagnosed with coronavirus $1,250 to stay home

  07-08-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A California county has approved a pilot programme that will provide residents who test positive for coronavirus a stipend of $1,250 (£957) to stay at home.Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has set aside $10m (£7.6m) for the programme, which will enable it to provide payments to 7,500 people in the area.
  
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• Beirut explosion: Captain Boris Prokoshev on why Rhosus was in Beirut

  07-08-2020 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Prokoshev, captain of the Rhosus, spoke to the BBC's Sarah Rainsford about why the ship was in Beirut.
  
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• Bars over schools: Why your kids will probably learn from home this fall

  07-08-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lawmakers and educators battle over how to reopen schools safely this fall amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Rare syndrome linked to COVID-19 found in nearly 600 U.S. children: CDC

  07-08-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) is a rare but severe condition that shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease, including fever, rashes, swollen glands and, in severe cases, heart inflammation.It has been reported in children and adolescent patients about two to four weeks after the onset of COVID-19.With rising COVID-19 cases, there could be an increased occurrence of MIS-C, but this might not be apparent immediately because of the delay in development of symptoms, said the
  
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• President Trump says Joe Biden is no longer worthy of the Black vote following diversity remark

  07-08-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden compares diversity of Blacks and Latinos; reaction on 'The Five.'
  
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• Kerala plane crash: 17 dead after Air India plane breaks in two at Calicut

  07-08-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The plane had 190 people on board and was repatriating Indians stranded by the coronavirus crisis.
  
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• 'Most sophisticated tunnel in history' found on Mexican border

  07-08-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A tunnel that stretched more than 1,300 feet across the Mexican border has been discovered by federal agents who labelled it the “most sophisticated tunnel in US history”.The unfinished tunnel was exposed by special agents in Arizona on Tuesday and was equipped with a ventilation system, water lines, electrical wiring, a rail system and extensive reinforcement.
  
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• Fort Hood commander's transfer on hold amid investigations

  07-08-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Army leaders have delayed the planned transfer of the Fort Hood commander, as a team of independent investigators heads to the base to determine whether leadership failures contributed to the murder of a soldier earlier this year, and several other deaths.Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, commander of Fort Hood, Texas, was slated to go to Fort Bliss, which is near El Paso, and take over leadership of the 1st Armored Division.Command of a division is a key step in an Army officer's career.
  
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• The US Space Force is getting an official second in command

  07-08-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A familiar face is set to become the service's first vice chief of space operations.
  
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• Plane breaks in two in deadly Air India crash

  07-08-2020 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  An Air India Express flight has skidded off the runway while landing at Calicut International Airport, in the South Indian state of Kerala, CNN News 18 reports.
  
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• Ningaloo Reef: Second woman injured by whale at Australia tourist hotspot

  07-08-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  She is the second person in less than a week to be injured by a humpback whale at Ningaloo Reef.
  
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• Woman confronting vandals covered in paint during renewed Portland protests

  07-08-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters in Portland allegedly threw white paint over a woman, as demonstrators clashed with police for a third consecutive day.On Friday, following two days of protests marred by vandalism, more than 200 people clashed with police, as two other Black Lives Matter protests marched peacefully through the city.
  
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• Pompeo rejects Congress' subpoenas for IG, Biden probe info

  07-08-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday rejected congressional subpoenas issued for him and for the State Department to provide information and testimony to lawmakers about two politically charged developments.The refusals set the stage for an escalation in the confrontation between the State Department and the Democratic-controlled House ahead of November's elections.In letters sent to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Pompeo and the State Department’s acting legislative affairs chief
  
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• 'We let her down': Army secretary vows changes after Vanessa Guillén killing

  07-08-2020 23:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ryan McCarthy said that Fort Hood has some of the the highest rates of murder, sexual harassment and assault of any Army installation in the country.
  
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• Doctors call for COVID-19 survivors to donate convalescent plasma

  07-08-2020 23:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Demand for convalescent plasma has gone up in recent weeks, following the latest surge in coronavirus cases.
  
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• COVID-stricken Anchorage wins court ruling in diner dispute

  07-08-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As COVID-19 cases spike and hospital bed space dwindles in Alaska's largest city, Anchorage officials on Friday won a key ruling in favor of a ban on indoor restaurant dining after a standoff over the issue moved to court.Anchorage city officials this week sued to halt indoor dining service at one eatery, Kriner’s Diner, that defied an emergency order issued on July 31 prohibiting the practice after coronavirus infections jumped sharply.On Friday, following two days of court hearings, stat
  
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• Liberty U's Falwell takes leave after social media uproar

  07-08-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jerry Falwell Jr. agreed Friday to take an indefinite leave of absence as the leader of Liberty University, one of the nation's top evangelical Christian colleges, days after apologizing for a social media post that caused an uproar even among fellow conservatives. The private university in Lynchburg, Virginia, gave no reason for Falwell's departure in a one-sentence announcement late Friday afternoon. An early and high-profile supporter of President Donald Trump, Falwell has served since 2007 a
  
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• Russia claims it will win race in finding coronavirus vaccine, scientists say not so fast

  07-08-2020 23:07 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Russia has announced that mass vaccinations are planned for early October, which would make it the first country to approve and distribute a coronavirus vaccine, but scientists are warning against the move.
  
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• Prosecutors investigating police who handcuffed Black girls

  07-08-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors are investigating whether suburban Denver police officers should face criminal charges for putting four Black girls on the ground and handcuffing two of them after mistakenly suspecting they were riding in a stolen car, a district attorney said Friday.The traffic stop happened in Aurora, where officers are also being investigated following the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain after he was placed in a chokehold last year.Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson and the department are coo
  
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• An Air India plane crashed while landing at a notoriously tricky airport — here's why 'tabletop' runways can be so treacherous

  07-08-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  These mountaintop runways leave little margin for error, and can create optical illusions that threaten to fool pilots.
  
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• Stimulus bill talks hit another dead end after 2 weeks of negotiations

  07-08-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congressional Democrats and White House leaders didn't solve anything during a Friday meeting meant to hammer out the next CARES Act, closing out a second week of negotiations with next to nothing to show for them.The main problem, CNN's Phil Mattingly reports, is that Democrats don't have the votes to support any bill under $2 trillion and Republicans won't accept anything over it. Those sticking points led to what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called a "disappointing meeting" w
  
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• New York governor says schools can reopen for in-person classes

  07-08-2020 22:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  July jobs report has experts worried that economic recovery is losing steam, while Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker put some teeth into the state’s mask rules.
  
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• He reported being assaulted by Minneapolis police. No one investigated.

  07-08-2020 22:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  An NBC News review of Minneapolis police misconduct reports suggests the filing process is difficult and unclear and a large number are going uninvestigated.
  
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• Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses

  07-08-2020 22:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40 percent of its area in just two days at the end of July.
  
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• US to end deployment of US Marines in Norway after boosting it in 2018 amid Russian tensions

  07-08-2020 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  The US is ending the rotational deployment of some 700 US Marines to Norway, shifting to shorter more periodic deployments and focusing on training with the US Navy, a move that comes days after the Pentagon announced a major draw down of troops in Europe.
  
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• Pakistan to roll back lockdown measures as COVID-19 death numbers decline

  07-08-2020 22:35 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Deaths have fallen to almost 10% of their peak numbers.
  
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• Lawsuit against the NRA isn't just for show, it's serious

  07-08-2020 22:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  The NRA now faces a significant threat by an attorney general’s office that plans to seize its coffers.
  
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• Top U.S. intel official: China wants Trump defeated, Russia is sabotaging Biden

  07-08-2020 22:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  The statement by Bill Evanina amounted to a strikingly detailed update on U.S. intelligence assessments about foreign preferences in the 2020 election.
  
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• New York is moving homeless people into luxury hotels to protect them against coronavirus and wealthy neighbourhoods aren't happy

  07-08-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York was in the midst of a record homelessness crisis even before the coronavirus hit. Some 60,000 people were filling municipal shelters across the city every night. Nearly a third of that number was living in dorm-style facilities for single adults, sharing bathrooms, dining areas and sleeping facilities.“When Covid struck, we recognised very quickly this was a recipe for disaster,” said Jacqueline Simone, of Coalition for the Homeless, a New York charity. The problem was only
  
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• Intelligence official says Russia and China are lining up on opposite sides of the U.S. election

  07-08-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top intelligence official says Russia is using a "range of measures" to take down former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election, while China prefers that President Trump doesn't win.William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, released a statement on Friday detailing the "intentions and activities" of U.S. adversaries in the presidential election, which describes how intelligence officials are "concerned" primarily about China, Ru
  
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• Pajamas ban for students learning from home draws mixed response

  07-08-2020 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Whether taking classes online or in person, public school students in Springfield, Illinois, "must follow the dress code of the building, and so no pajama pants," a district administrator said.
  
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• A Year After India Revoked Kashmir's Special Status, Kashmiris Worry About a Demographic Shift

  07-08-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  India’s government has made full use of the COVID-19 lockdown by passing the domicile rule, which has caused alarm because of its potential to change the demography of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, writes human rights activist Khurram Parvez.
  
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• ‘Con artist’ fakes daughter’s death — and his own — to trick wife in Virginia, feds say

  07-08-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russell Geyer used an app to disguise his voice while posing as an attorney in Florida to get money from his wife, according to federal prosecutors.
  
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• Court rules House can enforce McGahn subpoena, but law professors say Trump's stalling already did its job

  07-08-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's been more than a year since the Trump administration blocked House Democrats' attempt to secure testimony from former White House Counsel Don McGahn, a pivotal figure in the Mueller investigation. At the time, it appeared to be what former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara called a "stalling tactic," and a way for the Trump administration to "run out the clock" to a point where McGahn's testimony didn't matter anymore.Indeed, President Trump's impeachment trial came and went without a word from M
  
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• AMA updates progress of vaccine trials in US

  07-08-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a speech, delivered via livestream, the president of the American Medical Association laid out the progress being made in developing a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. (Aug. 7)
  
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• China 'prefers' Trump lose election as Russia works to denigrate Biden, US intel assessment says

  07-08-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  The US intelligence community's top election security official said in a statement Friday that China "prefers" an outcome where President Donald Trump is not reelected in November and Russia is working to denigrate former Vice President Joe Biden's White House bid.
  
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• A look at Biden's potential running mates: Maggie Hassan, Keisha Lance Bottoms, and Tammy Baldwin

  07-08-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is expected to announce his pick for vice president next week. CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe joined CBSN with more on some of the contenders: Maggie Hassan, Keisha Lance Bottoms, and Tammy Baldwin.
  
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• UK pledges to crack down on ‘appalling’ wave of illegal immigration across English Channel

  07-08-2020 22:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The U.K. government is promising to crack down on an “appalling” fresh wave of illegal immigration that has seen hundreds of migrants crossing the English Channel in boats -- with the government calling on France to do more to stop the crossings.
  
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• 2 transgender teens sue Arizona's Medicaid program for refusal to cover chest surgery

  07-08-2020 21:58 via nydailynews.com
  Two transgender teens in Arizona are challenging the state's Medicaid ban on surgical treatment for gender dysphoria. The two plaintiffs, named in court documents as 15-year-old D.H. and 17-year-old John Doe, are both teens enrolled in Arizona's Medicaid program, known as the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. They are seeking male chest reconstruction surgery as a treatment for ...
  
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• Fauci warns COVID-19 vaccine may be only partially effective, public health measures still needed

  07-08-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "But the chances of it being 98% effective is not great, which means you must never abandon the public health approach."The novel coronavirus has infected nearly 5 million people in the United States and killed more than 160,000.As infections have spiked around the country after states started to open up, public health experts, including Fauci, have stressed the importance of steps that each American can take, including social distancing, washing hands and wearing masks.
  
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• Miami men with Ukrainian political ties laundered money, DOJ says

  07-08-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Department of Justice filed civil forfeiture complaints this week in Miami federal court accusing two Ukrainian oligarchs and their Miami-based associates of stealing money abroad and laundering it in the United States by moving it through a Ukrainian-owned bank and into Miami companies operating as “slush funds” for real estate investment.
  
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• Canada's last intact ice shelf collapses due to warming

  07-08-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Much of Canada's remaining intact ice shelf has broken apart into hulking iceberg islands thanks to a hot summer and global warming, scientists said.Canada's 4,000-year-old Milne Ice Shelf on the northwestern edge of Ellesmere Island had been the country's last intact ice shelf until the end of July when ice analyst Adrienne White of the Canadian Ice Service noticed that satellite photos showed that about 43% of it had broken off.The biggest is nearly the size of Manhattan — 21 square mile
  
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• Fact check: Trump lawyer helped Kanye West try to get on Wisconsin’s ballot

  07-08-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kanye West lined up help from several Republicans to get on the ballot, including a GOP lawyer who’s representing the Trump campaign in a lawsuit.
  
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• Trump's latest fundraising attempt is reportedly a Facebook scam against his own supporters

  07-08-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump would love to have dinner with you, for the low, low price of a $10,000 fine.The Trump campaign blitzed supporters this week asking for donations in exchange for the chance to attend a "VIP dinner" with the president in Southampton, New York on Aug. 8, but Popular Information's Judd Legum, who investigated the contest, says the fundraising attempt is a pretty blatant "scam."The ads, which reportedly cost the campaign $100,000 to run on Facebook, failed to mention that anyone resi
  
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• Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages

  07-08-2020 21:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  According to internal discussions, Facebook removed "strikes" so that conservative pages were not penalized for violations of misinformation policies.
  
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