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• Mali's president resigns after being detained by mutinous troops

  18-08-2020 23:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Mali president resigned Tuesday night after being detained with the prime minister in an apparent coup by mutinied soldiers who surrounded the presidential residence and fired shots into the air.
  
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• James Comey, who led controversial FBI probe into Hillary Clinton's emails, wears 'Elect More Women' T-shirt

  18-08-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former FBI director posted a photo of himself wearing a T-shirt with the message "Elect More Women."
  
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• Post office chief halts cuts – but concerns about election remain

  18-08-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday that he would postpone cost-cutting measures until after the November election.
  
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• Man convicted in death of Michael Jordan's dad to be paroled

  18-08-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of two men convicted in the murder of Michael Jordan’s father in 1993 will be released from prison in three years, state officials said Tuesday. The N.C. Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission announced in a three-paragraph statement that it has granted parole to Larry Demery, who is to be released in August 2023, news outlets reported. The 2023 release date arises from a portion of Demery's parole agreement stipulating he will take part in a program which provides scholastic a
  
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• Former DHS official now backing Biden warns Trump others will speak out

  18-08-2020 23:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Miles Taylor, a former senior administration official, warns President Donald Trump he's just the "opening salvo" of others who will speak out.
  
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• Fires destroy home of one of the world's rarest birds

  18-08-2020 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  A Brazilian sanctuary, home to 15% of the world's population of blue macaws, has been consumed by fires -- and there are fears for the well-being of the rare birds.
  
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• ‘Lottery Lawyer’ Scammed Jackpot Winners Out of Millions in Mafia-Tied Scheme: Feds

  18-08-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For years, New York attorney Jason Kurland was the “go-to” lawyer for lottery winners.Having represented dozens of lucky people across the country—whose total winnings estimated $3 billion—the attorney appeared on CNN and CNBC as a “lottery law expert,” offering advice on how winners can protect their sudden infusion of cash.“The biggest mistake people make is doing it on their own,” Kurland said in a 2019 interview, stressing that it’s impor
  
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• Cindy McCain details husband's friendship with Biden for DNC

  18-08-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cindy McCain is going to bat for Joe Biden, lending her voice to a video set to air during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention programming focused on Biden’s close friendship with her late husband, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona.It's a continuation of a major theme that Democrats have pushed through the first night of the convention — an effort to broaden the party's appeal to occasional Republicans and disaffected Trump voters.In an advance clip from the vid
  
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• Kamala Harris speech: Women who paved way for first black female VP hopeful

  18-08-2020 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The women who paved the way for Kamala Harris' historic run reflect on their own pioneering candidacies.
  
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• FBI: Predator Priest in Ohio Abused Boys for Decades

  18-08-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Warning: This post may contain content that is disturbing to readers.A Catholic priest in Ohio was arrested Tuesday for child sex trafficking and is accused of grooming and abusing at least two victims since the '90s.The FBI cuffed Michael Zacharias, 53, after morning Mass at St. Michael the Archangel in Findlay. The pastor is charged with coercion and enticement, sex trafficking of a minor, and sex trafficking of an adult by force, fraud, or coercion. According to the feds, Zacharias was taken
  
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• TV networks are reportedly afraid of giving the RNC too much airtime, so they cut the DNC's time short too

  18-08-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Major broadcasters only offered the Democratic National Convention an hour of airtime for a different reason than they usually do, The Daily Beast reports.Most presidential election years, TV networks limit the parties' conventions' airtime to an hour, saying viewers would lose interest if they were longer. But this year, they told Democrats they could only have an hour of airtime because they feared giving Republicans more time than that, multiple sources told The Daily Beast.Democratic officia
  
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• Cuba Gooding Jr. accused of rape in lawsuit

  18-08-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cuba Gooding Jr. has been accused of rape after he was previously hit with charges for alleged groping.An unnamed woman in a civil lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges that the Oscar-winning Jerry Maguire star raped her twice after inviting her from a Manhattan bar back to his hotel room in August 2013, Reuters reports. The women says that Gooding blocked her way out of the hotel room when she tried to leave and pushed her onto the bed, according to The New York Times. This comes after Gooding plead
  
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• Colleges grapple with coronavirus as students return

  18-08-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Notre Dame University became the latest college to move classes online due to the coronavirus, after nearly 150 students tested positive.“It is very serious, and we must take serious actions,” university president the Rev. John Jenkins said in an address to students and staff Tuesday.Tuesday’s action follows the decision by officials of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to switch to remote learning starting Wednesday, as the virus makes its mark on colleges &mdash
  
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• Car-sized asteroid just made the closest fly-by of Earth on record

  18-08-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Astronomers didn't even know about the asteroid until after it had already crossed our path.
  
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• Senate report details Russia’s efforts to meddle in 2016, ties to Trump associates

  18-08-2020 23:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A new bipartisan report released by a Senate panel Tuesday outlines perhaps the most detailed accounting to date of Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
  
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• PSG reaches first ever Champions League final

  18-08-2020 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  Paris Saint-Germain put on a footballing masterclass to reach the Champions League final for the first time in the club's history, running riot against RB Leipzig to secure a statement 3-0 win.
  
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• Senate Republicans preparing $500B virus relief proposal

  18-08-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Republican leaders are preparing a slimmed-down coronavirus relief package of roughly $500 billion that will include extended payments for unemployed people and smaller businesses, a GOP senator said Tuesday.The measure will also include $10 billion for the embattled Postal Service, said one top GOP aide.The agency has become the focus of a campaign-season battle over whether it will have enough resources to handle an expected flood of mail-in ballots for this November's presidential and
  
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• Dr. Fauci is 'cautiously optimistic' that by the end of 2021 there will be enough coronavirus vaccine shots for all Americans

  18-08-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci suspects that if Americans want a coronavirus vaccine, they'll be able to get one before next year is up.
  
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• USPS chief halts changes amid uproar and lawsuits

  18-08-2020 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  At least 20 Democratic attorneys general across the country are launching a multi-pronged legal effort to push back on the Trump administration's recent changes that disrupted mail delivery across the country and triggered accusations that Trump and his appointees are trying to undermine mail-in voting.
  
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• US Postal Service chief halts changes amid uproar and lawsuits

  18-08-2020 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  At least 20 Democratic attorneys general across the country are launching a multi-pronged legal effort to push back on the Trump administration's recent changes that disrupted mail delivery across the country and triggered accusations that Trump and his appointees are trying to undermine mail-in voting.
  
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• Harlem Globetrotter speaks out after banana thrown at him on live TV by news broadcasters

  18-08-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  A member of the Harlem Globetrotters is speaking out on racial insensitivities after two White Alabama news broadcasters threw fruit, including a banana, at him on live television.
  
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• Trump to posthumously pardon Susan B. Anthony, convicted of voting illegally

  18-08-2020 22:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Donald Trump announced he will posthumously pardon for Susan B Anthony, a suffrage movement leader found guilty of illegally voting as a woman in 1872.
  
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• Arizona Teachers Waged a Sickout Over Coronavirus Concerns, and Organizers Say Other School Districts Could Be Next

  18-08-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As some politicians and parents pressure schools to reopen, teachers are pushing back.
  
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• Paul Manafort was 'a grave counterintelligence threat,' Republican-led Senate panel finds

  18-08-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee released a 996-page report that delivered "irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling" in the 2016 campaign.
  
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• An ugly battle is playing out between McDonald's and its former CEO

  18-08-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  McDonald's former CEO Steve Easterbrook is fighting the company's attempt to claw back his severance package.
  
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• USA's first male 'murder hornet' captured in Washington state

  18-08-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scarily nicknamed "murder hornets," the Asian giant hornet, the world's largest at 2 inches, can decimate entire hives of honeybees.
  
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• The Minuteman III, Designed for 10 Years of Use, Celebrates its 50th Anniversary

  18-08-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wednesday marks 50 years since America's Minuteman III ICBM was first placed on alert at Minot Air Force Base.
  
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• Amazon, Meritage Homes rise; Kohl's, Big Lots fall

  18-08-2020 22:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially Tuesday: Amazon, Meritage Homes rise; Kohl’s, Big Lots fall
  
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• 'Stop the fear mongering!': Peeved cruise-goers tell the CDC they're ready to set sail despite the pandemic

  18-08-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The CDC asked the public for input on how to restart cruises, and the responses show that lots of travelers are ready to get back on the water.
  
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• Tension with Washington helps fuel Turkey-Venezuela alliance

  18-08-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is an economic relationship; the murkier aspects have attracted the scrutiny of the U.S. Treasury Department.There is solidarity in their anti-U.S. rhetoric, even if the United States is a key trading partner of Turkey.The personal relationship between the leaders of Venezuela and Turkey is warm, partly forged by mutual words of support during domestic attempts to force them from power.
  
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• UN chief demands 'immediate and unconditional release' of Mali president

  18-08-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United Nations head Antonio Guterres demanded "the immediate and unconditional release" of Mali's president and members of his government Tuesday after they were seized by rebel soldiers.
  
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• ‘Not enough’: Pelosi demands USPS vote despite postmaster general suspending changes

  18-08-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will carry on with a planned Saturday vote on a bill to give the United States Postal Service a $25bn infusion to help with mail-in ballots, calling the Donald Trump-allied postmaster general’s move to suspend efforts Democrats saw as trying to tilt the presidential election an “insufficient first step.”The postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, said he will suspend changes he was making within the United States Postal Service (USPS) until after No
  
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• Lebanese president defends Hezbollah, says it's 'impossible' they are responsible for deadly Beirut blast: report

  18-08-2020 22:13 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Lebanese President Michel Aoun said it's "impossible" that explosive material in the Beirut port that caught fire, resulting in a deadly explosion earlier this month was caused by Hezbollah arms.
  
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• Bipartisan Senate committee strongly implies Trump lied to Mueller

  18-08-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Russian interference in the 2016 hinted pretty strongly at the possibility that President Trump lied to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller during his own investigation, which ended last year.The bipartisan Senate investigation did not find any evidence that Trump or his presidential campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election, but there is some language in the report implying the president may have twisted the truth.In a written respon
  
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• Girl who prayed for end to gun violence is killed in shooting, Wisconsin police say

  18-08-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “God, can you make it better?” Anisa Scott prayed. “They won’t stop shooting, they won’t stop killing.”
  
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• Hiker rescued in New Mexico after being lost in the woods for two weeks

  18-08-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man suffered from chronic back pain and again injured his back while hiking and could not stand or walk," the Santa Fe Fire Department said.
  
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• We now have the best evidence yet that everyone develops long-term coronavirus immunity after infection — and it's not just about antibodies

  18-08-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Research shows that COVID-19 patients — including those with asymptomatic or mild cases — develop T cells that can fight the virus if it returns.
  
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• Biden is reportedly not leasing his own campaign plane, ending a decades-long tradition of presidential candidate jets

  18-08-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Campaign planes have allowed presidential candidates to crisscross the country in a single day to maximize exposure in the build-up to an election.
  
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• Is law implementing Amendment 4 a poll tax? Federal appeals court hears both sides

  18-08-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a case that could have major ramifications ahead of the November election, a panel of federal judges in Atlanta questioned lawyers Tuesday about Florida’s decision to require felons to pay off all court fees and fines before voting.
  
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• Growing dent in Earth's magnetic field could impact satellites and spacecraft

  18-08-2020 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  A growing dent in Earth's magnetic field over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean could pose a risk to spacecraft and satellites.
  
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• A growing dent in Earth's magnetic field could impact satellites and spacecraft

  18-08-2020 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  A growing dent in Earth's magnetic field over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean could pose a risk to spacecraft and satellites.
  
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• Feds attempting to seize home of former pro wrestler

  18-08-2020 21:33 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Federal authorities are trying to seize the $1.5 million Madison home of former professional wrestler Ted DiBiase Jr., according to court documents filed in June and obtained by the Clarion Ledger
  
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• US Senate report goes beyond Mueller to lay bare Trump campaign's Russia links

  18-08-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bipartisan intelligence panel says that Russian who worked on Trump’s 2016 bid was career spy, amid a stunning range of contactsA report by the Senate intelligence committee provides a treasure trove of new details about Donald Trump’s relationship with Moscow, and says that a Russian national who worked closely with Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 was a career intelligence officer.The bipartisan report runs to nearly 1,000 pages and goes further than last year’s in
  
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• South African farmers protest attacks

  18-08-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of farmers on tractors, excavators, harvesters, trucks or horses took to the streets of the small South African town of Mookgophong on Tuesday, protesting what they said was a spike in attacks on farms.
  
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• Anderson Cooper rips apart MyPillow CEO as a 'snake oil salesman' in jaw-dropping interview

  18-08-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN's Anderson Cooper just went after the CEO of MyPillow as a "snake oil salesman" over his touting of an unproven coronavirus cure in a jaw-dropping, nearly half-hour interview.Cooper spoke with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Tuesday afternoon after Axios reported that President Trump has "expressed enthusiasm" for an unproven COVID-19 treatment, Oleandrin, being promoted by Lindell, who has a financial stake in the company that develops it.The CNN host grilled Lindell in the more than 20 minute
  
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• Pelosi celebrates walkback of Postal Service changes: ‘They felt the heat’

  18-08-2020 21:09 via politico.com
  
  The House speaker insisted she would continue with a $25 billion bill to boost the Postal Service.
  
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• Former counterterrorism chief: Trump defeat may prompt right-wing terror attacks

  18-08-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former head of the National Counterterrorism Center said he would not be surprised if right-wing domestic terrorist groups stage attacks in the United States around this November’s presidential election.
  
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• Postmaster general says he'll pause cutbacks that threatened voting — but service slowdowns might persist

  18-08-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The embattled postmaster general is set to testify in front of the Senate on Friday and the House on Monday over concerns about funding and the election.
  
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• South Dakota tallies 460,000 vehicles during Sturgis rally

  18-08-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally drew more than 460,000 vehicles during the 10-day event, according to a count South Dakota transportation officials released Tuesday.Sturgis officials said they expected fewer people to show up this year, estimating they would see between 250,000 and 300,000 people during the 10-day event.The South Dakota Department of Health issued a warning on Tuesday that one person who spent several hours at a bar on Main Street in Sturgis has tested positive for CO
  
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• First night of virtual Democratic convention draws 19.7 million viewers on 10 U.S. TV networks

  18-08-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former first lady Michelle Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders, a former presidential contender, were among the key speakers rallying support for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris.Obama and Sanders also spoke on the first night of the 2016 convention, which nominated Hillary Clinton for president.
  
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