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• Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston sign on for virtual table read of 'Fast Times'

  17-08-2020 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  2020 just keeps the surprises coming.
  
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• Former CIA officer charged with spying for China, conspiring with relative who was also ex-CIA

  17-08-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former CIA officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma is accused providing U.S. secrets to China in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash and gifts.
  
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• Wolf presses Kushner: 1,000 deaths a day isn't success, right?

  17-08-2020 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to President Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
  
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• Wolf Blitzer presses Kushner: 1,000 deaths a day isn't success, right?

  17-08-2020 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to President Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
  
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• How Republicans plan to counter Democrats' big week

  17-08-2020 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  The president and his allies hope to use the Democratic convention to advance their monthslong uphill effort to frame Joe Biden as a captive of his party's far-left wing.
  
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• Howard Dean says enthusiasm for Biden doesn't matter because voters have 'had it' with Trump

  17-08-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Regardless of what happens at the Democratic National Convention this week, Howard Dean said he has no doubt that Democrats will vote in high numbers this fall during the presidential election.
  
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• Oklahoma State sorority quarantined after 23 members test positive for COVID-19

  17-08-2020 23:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  Arizona teachers stage a "sickout," while actress Sharon Stone blames "Non-Mask wearers" for her sister's infection.
  
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• Trump may have irrevocably tainted the US election

  17-08-2020 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  • McConnell says he doesn't share Trump's 'concern' about the USPS
  • Voters receive absentee ballot forms with Trump's face on them
  • Opinion: If Trump loses and won't leave, it could get ugly
  
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• Former senior Trump administration official endorses Biden

  17-08-2020 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  Miles Taylor, a former senior Trump administration official, endorsed Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Monday, becoming one of the highest-ranking former Trump administration officials to do so.
  
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• Barcelona fires manager after Champions League humiliation

  17-08-2020 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  After losing 3-0 to Roma in 2018, Barcelona fans might've thought it was the club's lowest ebb. After losing 4-0 to Liverpool in 2019, they might've thought it was actually the club's lowest point.
  
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• Barcelona fire manager after Champions League humiliation

  17-08-2020 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  After losing 3-0 to Roma in 2018, Barcelona fans might've thought it was the club's lowest ebb. After losing 4-0 to Liverpool in 2019, they might've thought it was actually the club's lowest point.
  
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• 'Go away!' Workers heckle Belarus leader as support collapses around him

  17-08-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The workforce at state-run enterprises in Belarus has long been a pillar of support for the country's beleaguered president. Now that's changing.
  
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• The postmaster general once called the president's leadership style 'self-destructive' and said he'd be fired if he worked for Trump

  17-08-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I'd be fired," Louis DeJoy said in 2005. "That attitude that you are the most important person is self-destructive," he added, referring to Trump.
  
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• DHS chief of staff under Trump endorses Biden, describes 'terrifying' dealings with president

  17-08-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the Department of Homeland Security's top officials under President Trump is now turning against himMiles Taylor, who worked as DHS chief of staff under Trump, announced in a Monday ad and a Washington Post op-ed that he would be supporting former Vice President Joe Biden this fall. While he once hoped Trump would "soberly accept the burdens of the presidency," Taylor said in the op-ed that "he did not rise to the challenge," and thus Taylor had no choice but to speak out against his re-e
  
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• DNC adds Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  17-08-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Actresses Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross and Julia Louis-Dreyfus join an already star-studded lineup for the Democratic National Convention.
  
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• Son fakes own kidnapping in FaceTime call to trick his dad, Mississippi cops say

  17-08-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  He was tied up and had a gun pointed at his head, according to officials.
  
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• What to watch for on the first night of the Democratic convention

  17-08-2020 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  The Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday with a two-hour virtual event built on a theme of unity.
  
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• Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders and ... Republicans? What to watch for tonight

  17-08-2020 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  The Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday with a two-hour virtual event built on a theme of unity.
  
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• The moments that transformed US political conventions

  17-08-2020 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  US political conventions used to be filled with raucous antics. But reforms over decades have dramatically changed the role of delegates and this year many won't even show up in person. So what actually happens at conventions?
  
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• An 82-year-old Texas man waited more than a week for his heart medication to arrive, thanks to USPS delays

  17-08-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to testify next week before the House Oversight Committee about his cost-cutting measures at the USPS.
  
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• A 47-year-old man kept getting drunk from alcohol produced in his own gut. Doctors cured him with a poop transplant.

  17-08-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Auto-brewery syndrome is an illness where a person's body produces alcohol inside their gut, which can lead to drunkenness without consuming alcohol.
  
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• Covid-19 is now No. 3 cause of death in US

  17-08-2020 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Just as more students head back to school, health experts are worried about a disturbing trend in much of the country: decreasing testing combined with high test positivity rates.
  
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• Former top-ranking Trump official endorses Biden, saying working under the current administration was 'terrifying'

  17-08-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "What we saw week in and week out, for me, after two and a half years in that administration, was terrifying," the former Trump official said.
  
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• Colleges' best-laid coronavirus plans quickly come undone

  17-08-2020 22:55 via politico.com
  
  Schools are scrambling after experiencing an uptick in infections within days of students returning to campus.
  
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• State senator charged with 'injury' to Confederate monument

  17-08-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Louise Lucas faces charges of of conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess of $1,000, Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene said during a news conference.Lucas is a longtime Democratic legislator and a key power broker in the state Senate, joining the chamber in 1992.The charges were filed the same week Virginia lawmakers are taking up dozens of criminal justice reforms during a special legislative session.
  
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• Letters to the Editor: High taxes and electricity rates don't buy reliable power in a heat wave?

  17-08-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It gets hot in California — everyone knows that. So why is electricity so unreliable in this state during a heat wave?
  
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• Some New Jersey and Pennsylvania counties are under a new kind of quarantine now that large bugs native to China and South Korea have infested the region

  17-08-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Residents are asked to check their cars for the spotted lanternfly, which the NJ Department of Agriculture describes as an "excellent hitchhiker."
  
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• Semi truck splits in half after bridge collapses into a Missouri river, photos show

  17-08-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The truck was more than four times heavier than the weight limit of the bridge, police say.
  
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• FBI agents arrest Puerto Rican representative for alleged involvement in conspiracy to defraud to government

  17-08-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FBI agents have arrested Puerto Rico Representative María Milagros Charbonier over her alleged connection with a long-term conspiracy theory to defraud the government through means of bribery, theft, kickbacks and money laundering.A federal grand jury of the District of Puerto Rico returned a 13-count indictment against Ms Charbonier, as well as her husband Orland Montes-Rivera, their son Orland Gabriel Montes-Charbonier, and her assistant Frances Acevedo-Ceballos for their alleged partic
  
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• Georgia college students throw massive party despite COVID-19

  17-08-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We are disappointed that many of our students chose to ignore COVID-19 public health guidance by congregating in a large group without social distancing or face coverings," a UNG rep said in a statement.
  
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• COVID-19 kills ‘unusually large number’ of mink in Utah, USDA officials say

  17-08-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mink are the first in the U.S. to test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, USDA says.
  
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• Howard Dean on DNC: ‘It doesn't matter how much enthusiasm there is for Biden’

  17-08-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who chaired the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009, told Yahoo News Senior Political Correspondent Jon Ward that he believes that, in order to defeat President Trump, Democrats “just have to be decent.” According to Dean, for this week’s Democratic National Convention to be a success, the party doesn’t need to build enthusiastic support for former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign; rather, the focus should be on making
  
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• Prominent Latinos criticize Democrats for lack of representation at DNC

  17-08-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Only three Latino speakers that will have their own slot as part of the DNC’s primetime lineup this week.
  
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• Polish Nationalists and LGBT activists face off in Warsaw

  17-08-2020 22:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  The nationalists burned a rainbow flag, while the LGBT activists painted one on the street.
  
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• Two men charged in long-unsolved murder of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay

  17-08-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Prosecutors are set to announce charges against two people in the unsolved murder of Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ of Run-DMC who was killed in 2002, according to a law enforcement source.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Republican John Kasich trade barbs before they both speak at the Democratic convention

  17-08-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ocasio-Cortez called Kasich "an anti-choice extremist" who's "not a friend to workers" hours before he was scheduled to speak at the convention.
  
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• Officials made false statements about dropping charges against Jussie Smollett, special prosecutor says

  17-08-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A special prosecutor has concluded there were "substantial abuses of discretion" in the Jussie Smollett case and that officials involved made false or misleading statements to the public. Special prosecutor Dan Webb on Monday detailed the findings of his investigation into how the Cook County state's attorney's office handled the case against the Empire actor, and the probe did not conclude that officials broke the law, The New York Times reports. However, Webb's investigation established "abuse
  
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• Mink at two Utah farms test positive for COVID-19

  17-08-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People who had contact with the animals have also tested positive for the virus, which causes COVID-19 in humans, the agency said.Tests were carried out after unusually large numbers of mink died at the farms, the agency said.The animal, which is bred for its fur, is known to be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, the agency said, after mink carrying the virus were found on four of the 155 farms in the Netherlands.
  
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• Climate activists, traditionalists square off in Harvard alumni board vote

  17-08-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Harvard University board election pits proponents of two popular causes against each other: those focused on climate change and those who want to keep money and what they describe as special interests out of the contest.Votes are due Tuesday for five open seats on the Harvard University Board of Overseers, a 30-member alumni body that helps set strategy for the Cambridge, Mass. school."We have a great opportunity, and a duty, to hold Harvard to its highest ideals," said Nathan Goldberg, a camp
  
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• Former CIA officer charged with providing secrets to China in case out of 'spy novel'

  17-08-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Justice Department is accusing a former CIA officer of providing secrets to China.
  
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• Former CIA officer charged with providing secrets to China in a case out of a 'spy novel'

  17-08-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Justice Department is accusing a former CIA officer of providing secrets to China.
  
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• Trump retweets purported audio of Biden call with Ukraine from 2016

  17-08-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has retweeted an audio recording that U.S. intelligence officials have described as part of a Russian campaign to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
  
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• 'Definitely awkward': University freshmen get online welcome

  17-08-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sarah Showich, an 18-year-old theater major, was looking forward to joining tens of thousands of other students on Monday for a first day of classes on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.Welcome Week, held last week, in normal years has a carnival-like atmosphere.This year, all the receptions, movie nights, trivia meet-ups, concerts and the pomp and circumstance of the convocation ceremony for incoming students were held online.
  
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• Ex-Bloomberg campaign aides want him removed from program

  17-08-2020 21:36 via cnn.com
  
  A group of former staffers to Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign are calling on Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez to remove him from the slate of Democratic convention speakers, using an open letter to lambast the former New York mayor's treatment of his campaign staff.
  
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• The VA Is Using AI to Shorten its Mail Processing Time on Claims Intake

  17-08-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The VBA receives more than 550,000 pieces of mail initiating a claim or providing supportive documentation per month.
  
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• 'Historic' Israel deal won't likely bring peace to the Middle East

  17-08-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The heralded recent agreement to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates may not be the grand achievement it was made out to be. The White House-brokered deal, which was announced with much fanfare on Aug. 13, is undoubtedly a diplomatic win for U.S. President Donald Trump and for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who declared its signing a “historic day.”But the United Arab Emirates and Israel have never been at war, so the new agreement betw
  
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• Agency: First US virus cases in mink found at 2 Utah farms

  17-08-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five infected mink have been identified at two large farms in Utah, the Department of Agriculture announced.The Utah mink farms have also reported cases among workers.The state is one of the top mink breeders in the country, said state veterinarian Dr. Dean Taylor.
  
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• Hikers horrified as teen slips, plunges off rocks in South Dakota, officials say

  17-08-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Video shows hikers screaming as the teen tumbles from Falling Rock.
  
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• Universities scramble to deal with virus outbreaks

  17-08-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said it will switch to remote learning on Wednesday and make arrangements for students who want to leave campus housing.“We have emphasized that if we were faced with the need to change plans — take an off-ramp — we would not hesitate to do so, but we have not taken this decision lightly,” it said in a statement after reporting 130 confirmed infections among students and five among employees over the past week.UNC said the c
  
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• 'We are staring into the abyss - Hizbollah has no place in Lebanon's future' says former PM's son

  17-08-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The son of Lebanon’s murdered prime minister Rafic Hariri has called for the Iranian-backed militia Hizbollah to end its involvement in Lebanese politics and allow the country to rebuild following this month’s devastating blast at Beirut port which killed more than 200 people. Bahaa Hariri, the 54-year-old son of the Lebanese prime minister who was killed by a massive car bomb in 2005, said the blame for the huge explosion at Beirut port lay squarely with Hizbollah, which he said con
  
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