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• Police, protesters clash in Belarus after tense presidential vote

  09-08-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Clashes broke out between police and protesters in Belarus after a presidential election on Sunday that saw longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko face the biggest challenge to his rule in years.An official exit poll showed Lukashenko, in power since 1994, scoring a landslide victory, but his main challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya immediately cast doubt on the results.Opposition supporters took to the streets of Minsk and other cities after polls closed and the state exit poll showed that Lukashen
  
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• The foreign threats to the US election

  09-08-2020 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  Foreign actors still view US politics as a playpen. That's the key takeaway from the updated assessment of the election threat landscape by the US intelligence community's top election security official. It included detailed information on the "the intentions and activities" of China, Russia and Iran with respect to the 2020 election, now less than three months away.
  
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• Biden leads Trump in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, CBS News poll shows

  09-08-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to a CBS News Battleground Tracker poll, former Vice President Joe Biden is leading President Trump in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by six points in each state. The vast majority of voters in these two states say things in the U.S. are going badly. CBS News elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto joins CBSN's Lana Zak with a look at the polling.
  
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• Michigan university among 1st in US to test campus living during COVID-19 pandemic

  09-08-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lake Superior State University students have moved back into dorms and start classes Monday. Life will look different than when they left.
  
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• A record number of people are giving up their US citizenship, according to new research. Here's why

  09-08-2020 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  A record number of people are giving up their US citizenship, new research published on Sunday found.
  
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• Helicopter crash kills wildlife researchers conducting aerial sheep survey

  09-08-2020 23:10 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Three scientists were killed in a helicopter crash in Texas while they were conducting an aerial survey.
  
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• Chicago's Montrose Harbor blocked by police, fence after Mayor Lori Lightfoot shuts down large beach party: 'It's being addressed'

  09-08-2020 23:07 via chicagotribune.com
  
  CHICAGO - For months, memes have appeared to show Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot watching for crowds and threatening to close parts of the city if residents don't abide by orders and closures during the coronavirus pandemic. But on Saturday, Lightfoot herself - not just an edited photo of her, like those used in such memes - apparently had a hand in breaking up a large gathering at Montrose ...
  
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• Beirut police fire tear gas as protesters regroup and two ministers quit

  09-08-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rock-throwing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of anti-government demonstrations triggered by last week's devastating explosion.Fire broke out at an entrance to Parliament Square as demonstrators tried to break into a cordoned-off area, TV footage showed.Protesters also broke into the housing and transport ministry offices.
  
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• Mauritius oil spill: Locals scramble to contain environmental damage

  09-08-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The MV Wakashio, which ran aground on a coral reef on 25 July, is now leaking oil off the island.
  
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• Niger attack: French aid workers among eight killed by gunmen

  09-08-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The attack happened in a region which draws visitors to the last giraffe herds in West Africa.
  
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• NY governor calls Trump benefits executive order 'laughable'

  09-08-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday dismissed President Donald Trump's executive orders as “laughable" and another chapter in the federal government's botched response to the coronavirus as he praised New Yorkers for mostly good behavior that has reduced the infection rate in his state.The Democrat was particularly critical of Trump's Saturday announcement that states must pay part of $400 weekly unemployment insurance benefits.“The concept of saying to states, you pay 25 percent of
  
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• 250 students and staff asked to quarantine in Georgia district after one week of school

  09-08-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After one week of school, more than 250 students at staff in Cherokee County, Georgia, are asked to quarantine due to potential exposure to COVID-19.
  
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• Bolsonaro assails Brazil network blaming him for virus deaths

  09-08-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Jair Bolsonaro lashed out Sunday at the "cowardice" of Brazil's most widely viewed TV network for suggesting he bore heavy blame for the nation's more than 100,000 coronavirus deaths.The far-right president accused TV Globo of treating the death milestone as if it were "a World Cup final," saying on Twitter that it had been both "cowardly and disrespectful of the dead."On Saturday night, shortly after the official announcement that the 100,000-death mark had been passed, TV Globo opene
  
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• Wave in eastern Atlantic may develop into a tropical depression this week, forecasters say

  09-08-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The National Weather Service is monitoring a storm that has the potential to become a tropical depression in the eastern Atlantic this week.
  
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• Woman charged with murder after giving birth to stillborn. State's AG condemns it

  09-08-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief on Friday in support of ending the prosecution against a woman who was arrested and charged with murder after delivering a stillborn baby with toxic levels of methamphetamine in its system.
  
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• White House aide Peter Navarro said the 'Lord and Founding Fathers created executive orders' so Trump can push orders over 'partisan bickering'

  09-08-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Navarro criticized congressional Democrats for differing with "the hardest-working president in history."
  
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• Police charged a woman with murder after she gave birth to a stillborn baby. Now the state's AG is condemning it

  09-08-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief on Friday in support of ending the prosecution against a woman who was arrested and charged with murder after delivering a stillborn baby with toxic levels of methamphetamine in its system.
  
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• Report: White House inquired about adding Trump to Mount Rushmore

  09-08-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  White House aides reached out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem last year about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore, the New York Times reported.
  
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• Trump aides struggle to defend his pandemic relief orders as U.S. cases reach 5 million

  09-08-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Questioned about Trump's controversial new directives for pandemic relief, top aides offer contradictory, sometimes tangled responses.
  
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• Exclusive: Joe Biden and Democrats unveil details of DNC convention including nightly themes, ways to watch

  09-08-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'Uniting America' will be the DNC convention's theme. Speakers include former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
  
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• French wildlife tourists among eight killed in Niger by gunmen

  09-08-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They were in a region which draws visitors to the last giraffe herds in West Africa.
  
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• Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb says the US could experience 300,000 coronavirus deaths by the end of 2020

  09-08-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an interview with CBS "Face The Nation" Dr. Gottlieb said the death toll will be between 200,000 and 300,000.
  
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• Six French tourists, two others, killed in ambush at African giraffe reserve

  09-08-2020 21:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Six French tourists visiting a giraffe preserve in West Africa were killed Sunday in an ambush carried out by suspected terrorists on motorcycles, according to reports.
  
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• Time to return to theme parks? Not yet, say nearly 80% of parents, poll finds

  09-08-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even Disneyland and Walt Disney World can’t budge most parents, the poll finds.
  
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• French passengers sue Costa Cruises over virus ship ordeal

  09-08-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Around 850 French passengers who were onboard a coronavirus-riddled cruise ship that was turned away from numerous ports in March have filed a collective suit in Paris with 180 complaints, including manslaughter, against Costa Cruises, their lawyer said Sunday.The class action, which includes complaints from the families of three passengers who died of COVID-19, accuses the Italy-based cruise giant of negligence and various faults during their trip on the Costa Magica.In the absence of stopovers
  
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• Portland Medics Arrested and Injured in Protests Say They Were Specifically Targeted by Police and Federal Agents

  09-08-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TIME interviewed two medics who are suing the city of Portland and Trump administration for targeting them at protests
  
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• Esper appears to backtrack on Beirut explosion cause after White House pushback

  09-08-2020 21:21 via cnn.com
  
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper is downplaying any differences he had with the White House's assessment as to what caused the deadly explosion in Beirut after his speculation that the blast was likely the result of an accident drew push back from the White House.
  
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• Amazon reportedly wants to take over JCPenney and Sears stores to turn malls into giant fulfillment centers

  09-08-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amazon would benefit by gaining well-located warehouse space in cities and could decrease delivery time on orders.
  
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• American ex-Green Berets jailed over failed Venezuela attack

  09-08-2020 21:02 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Two former U.S. Green Berets were sentenced by a Venezuelan court Friday to 20 years in prison for their role in a botched attack on Venezuela in May, aimed at toppling President Nicolás Maduro.
  
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• Sudan rains and floods claim 20 more lives

  09-08-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 20 people were killed and 13 others wounded Sunday in torrential rains and flooding, the latest victims of days of flooding in Sudan, the civil defence said.Heavy rains typically hit Sudan between June and October each year, and this week the country has been badly battered by the downpour."20 people have died and 13 have been injured while 345 houses were destroyed or badly damaged" across the country Sunday, the civil defence said.
  
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• Three parks and wildlife employees die in helicopter crash during bighorn sheep survey

  09-08-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials say the pilot survived the crash in south-western Texas and cause of crash is under investigationThree Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) employees have been killed in a helicopter crash while conducting aerial surveys for desert bighorn sheep in the south-western part of the state, according to officials.The crash happened on Saturday in the remote wilderness of Black Gap Wildlife Management Area, which is adjacent to Big Bend National Park, on the Rio Grande that marks the bo
  
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• 'They are not just numbers': Missing Beirut silo worker's family clings to hope

  09-08-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Before he went missing on Aug. 4, Ghassan Hasrouty, an employee of Beirut's giant grain silos for 38 years, thought he was working in the safest place in the city.Tuesday's explosion in the port of Beirut, the biggest ever to hit the city, destroyed the silos, killed at least 158 people and injured more than 6,000.Hasrouty's family believe that he and six of his colleagues are somewhere under the silos and they are holding out hope that they are alive.
  
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• Tensions on the rise over Beirut explosion

  09-08-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Public fury over this week's massive explosion in Beirut brought protesters out again on Sunday, with escalating tensions outside parliament and in Martyrs' Square leading to security forces using tear gas. (August 9)
  
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• Pelosi says election threats from Russia, China aren't equal

  09-08-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the threats of interference in the U.S. presidential election from Russia and China are not equal, pointing to a more serious risk with Moscow's efforts to boost President Donald Trump’s reelection bid.An intelligence report last week said Russia was already using a “range of measures” to undercut Trump's Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, and promote Trump with misinformation on social media.
  
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• Trump declares war on Medicare

  09-08-2020 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  Is Donald Trump trying to lose this election? Seriously, is he self-destructing because somewhere, deep inside his tortured soul he knows he is an unworthy, incompetent, poseur?
  
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• No parties, no trips: Colleges set COVID-19 rules for fall

  09-08-2020 20:30 via abcnews.go.com
  
  U.S. colleges are asking returning students to promise to help contain the coronavirus
  
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• Dollar Tree, Family Dollar reverse mask policy again. Now requiring customers wear masks amid COVID-19.

  09-08-2020 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dollar Tree and Family Dollar have reversed course again use of masks during the coronavirus pandemic. Both retailers now require shoppers wear masks.
  
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• Celebrate the VP nominee, not Biden's decision to pick a woman. It's the least he can do.

  09-08-2020 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Our country has endured high opportunity costs for keeping white men in power for so long while ignoring the political contributions women could make.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself one year ago, setting off wave of conspiracy theories and celebrity denials

  09-08-2020 20:14 via nydailynews.com
  When Jeffrey Epstein took his life in a jail cell one year ago - dozens of his victims feared their hope for justice died with him. The registered sex offender, who made a mockery of the legal process since at least 2007, undermined the law one last time. Using orange sheets tied to the railing of a bunk bed in his cell, Epstein hanged himself, snapping a bone in his neck in three places. The ...
  
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• Beirut blast: Two Lebanese ministers resign as protesters clash with security forces

  09-08-2020 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Lebanese ministers resigned from the country's beleaguered government on Sunday in protest at the tragic explosion in Beirut that left at least 158 people dead. Information minister Manal Abdel-Samad and environment minister Demianos Kattar, one of prime minister Hassan Diab’s closest advisers, both announced they were stepping down from the government, which is accused of gross negligence and failing to prevent the deadly blast. Ms Abdel-Samad cited the government’s failure to e
  
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• Riot declared as fire burns in Portland police union offices

  09-08-2020 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A fire inside a police union building led authorities in Portland, Ore., to declare a riot and turn protesters away from the offices as demonstrations continue in the city after federal agents withdrew more than a week ago.
  
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• Beirut residents mourn destruction amid transformed cityscape

  09-08-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Curtains flutter through broken windows, piles of debris block the streets and top-floor apartments with their roofs blown off are exposed to the sky.As the residents of Beirut try to pick up their lives after an explosion that shook the country to its core, they are doing so with their surroundings utterly transformed.Elsa Saade was at work in a pharmacy in the famous night life district of Mar Mikhael at the moment of the blast, which was caused by explosives stored at the port a few hundred m
  
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• Boris Johnson says it is a 'moral duty' to reopen schools, warns of widening gap between students

  09-08-2020 19:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The prime minister faces push back from the National Education Union.
  
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• The bleak search for the missing in Beirut

  09-08-2020 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Arwa Damon is in Beirut, Lebanon, where rescue crews are undertaking a bleak search for missing persons and beginning the long cleanup process after a massive explosion devastated the city.
  
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• See the site of the explosion in Beirut now

  09-08-2020 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Arwa Damon is in Beirut, Lebanon, where rescue crews are undertaking a bleak search for missing persons and beginning the long cleanup process after a massive explosion devastated the city.
  
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• Maskless woman filmed telling grocery store worked she could be sued for enforcing rules

  09-08-2020 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A maskless woman was filmed falsely telling a grocery store worker she could be prosecuted for telling customers to wear masks - insisting that she was from an organization called the ‘Freedom to Breathe Agency’.The now-viral video shows the woman claiming she’s from the 'agency', which she says protects people's “constitutional rights” and makes sure civil and federal laws are not broken.
  
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• CNN's Arwa Damon reports from the site of the explosion in Beirut

  09-08-2020 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Arwa Damon is in Beirut, Lebanon, where rescue crews are undertaking a bleak search for missing persons and beginning the long cleanup process after a massive explosion devastated the city.
  
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• National security adviser: 'Almost nothing' left to sanction 'of the Russians'

  09-08-2020 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CBS News' Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan repeatedly pushed National Security Adviser on Sunday to say whether President Trump has told Russian President Vladimir Putin "to knock it off" when it comes to U.S. election interference. O'Brien said he doesn't get involved with his boss's conservations with other world leaders, but said the Trump administration remains committed to keeping Moscow out of the picture.Trump, O'Brien said, has been tougher than his predecessors. So much so, he argu
  
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• Beirut cop killed in anti-government clashes as Macron calls on world to help

  09-08-2020 19:39 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A police officer was killed Saturday as thousands of protesters in Beirut stormed government buildings and called for an uprising days after a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital’s port left at least 158 dead and some 6,000 wounded.
  
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• Fact check: Quarantine 'camps' are real, but COVID-19 camp claim stretches truth

  09-08-2020 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Instagram post is correct about expansion of quarantine sites during the pandemic, but falsely claims personal information will be accessed there.
  
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