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• Peter Navarro accuses Democrats and the Chinese Communist Party of being in cahoots in 2020 election

  19-08-2020 23:54 via foxnews.com
  
  White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro accused the Democratic Party and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of being in cahoots in the 2020 presidential election to defeat President Trump.
  
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• 750M genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in Florida Keys

  19-08-2020 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  A plan to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in 2021 has won final approval from authorities in the Florida Keys, despite the objection of many local residents and a coalition of environmental advocacy groups.
  
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• Pence, during trip to Wisconsin, dings for Biden for not visiting state in 659 days

  19-08-2020 23:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence, while in Wisconsin on Wednesday, dinged Joe Biden for not being in the state this week as originally planned -- drawing attention to how Democrats scrapped plans to hold the convention live from Milwaukee and opted for virtual speeches in light of the coronavirus crisis.
  
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• Before 'Coup 53,' the US and Iran were old friends

  19-08-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The British- and American-backed plot to overthrow Iran’s prime minister in 1953 laid the groundwork for the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and decades of hostility with the U.S. A documentary about the plot released on Aug. 19 offers new details of what happened.I believe it is worth recalling the time before the events chronicled in “Coup 53,” when the two countries had a distinctly different relationship.In the 1800s, American missionaries journeyed to what was then called Persia.
  
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• Progressives irked by spotlight on GOP at Dem convention

  19-08-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For nearly three minutes at this week's Democratic National Convention, Cindy McCain recounted Joe Biden's friendship with her late husband, John McCain, the Arizona senator and former Republican presidential candidate.Colin Powell, President George W. Bush's secretary of state, praised Biden for two minutes.John Kasich of Ohio and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey also got prominent speaking slots.
  
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• Dem heavyweights grab convention spotlight ahead of Harris’ big moment

  19-08-2020 23:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Sen. Kamala Harris of California gives the crowning speech Wednesday on the third night of the Democratic National Convention.
  
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• Here's what happened when students went to school during the 1918 pandemic

  19-08-2020 23:40 via cnn.com
  
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• Rush Limbaugh blasts 'pathetic' DNC over low ratings, 'awkward' and 'ill-conceived' production

  19-08-2020 23:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Rush Limbaugh slammed what he called the "pathetic nature" of the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, riffing on party presidential nominee Joe Biden as well as the mainstream media's continued attempts to gin up enthusiasm for the candidate rather than against President Trump.
  
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• Ex-GOP lawmaker says Republicans are 'frustrated' with Trump and the state of the party

  19-08-2020 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  Former Republican Congressman Charlie Dent explains why he is voting for Joe Biden over President Trump.
  
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• A look at COVID-19 precautions inside U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division

  19-08-2020 23:31 via foxnews.com
  
  1st Cavalry Division wearing masks, social distancing and disinfecting to fight COVID-19.
  
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• SpaceX is now a $46 billion 'unicorn'

  19-08-2020 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  SpaceX, the Elon Musk-led company that recently became the first business in history to send astronauts into Earth's orbit, is parlaying its successes into big money.
  
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• Fact-checking the first two nights of the Democratic convention

  19-08-2020 23:25 via cnn.com
  
  To be frank, there hasn't been a whole lot to fact-check from the Democratic National Convention so far.
  
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• A New York couple was charged with harassment after their Black neighbor said they threw feces and planted 'dead squirrels' on her property

  19-08-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The community is uplifting Jennifer McLeggan by way of protests, fundraisers, and men standing guard outside her house every night for over a month.
  
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• Rep. Joe Kennedy III denies knowledge that his father contributed millions to super-PAC in support of Senate race

  19-08-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Massachusetts congressman and Senate primary candidate Joe Kennedy III tells Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff that he had no knowledge that his father, Joe Kennedy II, had transferred a large sum of money into a super-PAC supporting his primary run against Sen. Ed Markey.
  
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• Venezuela coast could take half a century to recover from oil spill, researcher says

  19-08-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A strip of Venezuela's western coastline boasting pristine beaches and fragile ecosystems like mangroves and coral reefs could take more than half a century to fully recover from the environmental impacts of a recent oil spill, a researcher said on Wednesday.The country's opposition-controlled National Assembly last week opened an investigation to determine the causes and consequences of the oil slicks that began washing up on the Caribbean coast of western Falcon state in early August."We proje
  
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• More prominent Republicans have officially backed Biden

  19-08-2020 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  A number of prominent Republicans have endorsed Joe Biden's presidential bid, handing the former vice president potentially useful support as he looks to win over dissatisfied members of the party.
  
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• FDA halts emergency approval of blood plasma COVID-19 treatment

  19-08-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The emergency approval of blood plasma as a potential COVID-19 treatment by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now been put on hold, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing two senior administration officials.
  
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• US Air Force may have accidentally revealed interest in hypersonic nuke

  19-08-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One key general says a hypersonic glide option will not be fielded in the initial years of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.
  
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• Massive fire engulfs plastics factory near Dallas, could burn for days

  19-08-2020 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  "You got to have a lot of foam to put on it," Assistant Fire Chief Bill Murphy said. "There's just not enough foam to put on this large of a fire."
  
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• Harris sets off Democratic donor stampede

  19-08-2020 22:59 via politico.com
  
  Biden's new running mate has energized some donors who were disappointed after the primary, piling on top of Biden's robust fundraising.
  
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• Kamala's private army: Why Harris' HBCU, AKA affiliations could help Biden's campaign

  19-08-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some expect Joe Biden's vice presidential pick to have an edge among the Black electorate that even President Barack Obama did not enjoy.
  
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• Taking your dog for a walk twice a day for an hour could soon become law in Germany

  19-08-2020 22:49 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Germany, a nation known for draconian bureaucracy, just came up with new rules for dog owners – pets first.
  
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• Airbnb, last valued at $18 billion, has confidentially filed for an IPO

  19-08-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The $18 billion online travel giant on Wednesday took its next big step toward going public, confidentially filing its IPO paperwork.
  
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• Hillary Clinton has forceful words for voters who sat out 2016

  19-08-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, the only person with experience running for president against Donald Trump, returns to the (virtual) Democratic National Convention stage on Wednesday night to urge voters not to repeat 2016. "I wish Donald Trump had been a better president. But, sadly, he is who he is," the former candidate plans to say from her home in Chappaqua, New York, according to excerpts of her prepared remarks shared with the press.Clinton will specifically address voters who sat out the 2016 election.
  
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• Pencils or PPE: Teachers say they're forced to choose between buying school supplies or protective equipment to keep kids safe

  19-08-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Teachers with in-person classes are turning to the public for help collecting personal protection equipment (PPE)— if they are any left to go around.
  
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• Why no ISIS member has been charged with genocide or sexual violence for crimes against Yazidis

  19-08-2020 22:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  In August 2014, the world watched in helpless horror as ISIS operatives swarmed Yazidi-majority villages in and around Sinjar Mountain. Thousands of men were slaughtered on the spot and thousands of girls and women and carted off into sexual slavery.
  
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• 'Historic lightning siege:' Thousands flee as hundreds of wildfires blaze across California

  19-08-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of people were under orders to evacuate in regions surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area as wildfires blazed across the state.
  
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• 2 soldiers appeared in a DNC speech in their combat uniforms, and the US Army says they may have broken rules about partisanship

  19-08-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Department of Defense said it's investigating the presence of troops in a roll call clip by the U.S. territory American Samoa.
  
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• Former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent, who resigned after Trump's election, endorses Biden

  19-08-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Rep. Charlie Dent's 2020 vote may be an indicator of how Pennsylvania will lean in November's election.On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Republican told CNN he would be endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Dent resigned in 2018 after refusing to vote for President Trump in the 2016 election, and now joins a wave of Republicans explicitly supporting Biden.Dent is supporting Biden because the country needs "to return some sense of normalcy to the function o
  
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• Why U.S. intelligence findings undermine the Trump administration's Beijing-centric coronavirus narrative

  19-08-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American officials familiar with a new internal report conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies said the findings affirm previous claims that local officials in Wuhan and Hubei Province hid coronavirus information from Beijing at the beginning of the pandemic, The New York Times reports.The U.S. report certainly doesn't exculpate the central government from wrongdoing, which occurred at all levels of the Chinese Communist Party, but it does make for a more nuanced reading of the pandemic's origin
  
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• TV audience for night two of Democratic convention down from 2016

  19-08-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The event, which was held virtually for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic, was watched by roughly 19.2 million people on 10 U.S. broadcast and cable television networks, said Nielsen.Nielsen measured TV viewership from 10 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. Eastern time.On Tuesday, Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden for president, more than three decades after his first unsuccessful run for the White House.
  
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• More onion recalls (HelloFresh, EveryPlate, Kroger) in this salmonella outbreak update

  19-08-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Salmonella Newport outbreak connected to onions has reached 1,208 across the United States and Canada, according to each nation’s health agencies, and continues to spawn recalls.
  
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• You may want to grab honey the next time you have a cold, study finds. Here’s why

  19-08-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Grandma knows what she’s doing.
  
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• Trump knocks Mitch McConnell, Republicans for USPS hearings during RNC

  19-08-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing will feature the testimony of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
  
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• Sen. Angus King says Senate intel report shows 'serious and disturbing' Russian link to Trump 2016 campaign

  19-08-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Angus King today ridiculed Senate Intelligence acting chair Sen. Marco Rubio’s claim that a report released by the panel this week found “absolutelyno evidence of collusion.”
  
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• These groups are helping Asian American immigrant voters with mail-in voting

  19-08-2020 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Mail-in ballots can actually be less stressful than showing up to polling stations for voters not fluent in English, experts say.
  
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• Report: Police Shootings Continue Unabated Despite COVID-19 Shutdowns

  19-08-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NYPD officers work a crime scene on Aug. 18, 2020, in Queens, New York.While 2020 has seen a dramatic slowdown in the day-to-day activities and lives of many Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic, fatal police shootings are still occurring at a rate consistent with previous years—and with significant racial disparities, according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).There has been an average of 19.4 deadly police shootings every week this year, a figure no diffe
  
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• Trump supporters pledge to buy from Cooper Tires after the president urges a Goodyear boycott

  19-08-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both Goodyear and Cooper are based in Ohio — and Trump supporters are flocking to the smaller tire manufacturer, Cooper.
  
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• Kemp defends coronavirus response after White House report

  19-08-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp defended his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in fiery remarks Wednesday after a report from the White House coronavirus task force said Georgia led the nation last week in new cases per capita.The White House report, dated Aug. 16, recommends several steps to curb the virus that Kemp has declined to take, including closing bars and issuing mask mandates in counties with 50 or more active cases.Kemp was among the first governors to ease earlier
  
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• U.S. attorney general won't seek death penalty against British Islamic State 'Beatles'

  19-08-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States will not seek the death penalty for two British members of an Islamic State execution squad nicknamed the "Beatles," whose extradition the Justice Department is seeking, Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday.In a letter to Priti Patel, Britain's interior minister this week Barr said if Britain grants an extradition request for Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, U.S. prosecutors will not seek the death penalty and would not carry out executions if they were to be i
  
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• Here are all the colleges that have suspended in-person classes or quarantined students because of COVID-19

  19-08-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The University of North Carolina and University of Notre Dame moved their classes online for the fall semester after COVID-19 outbreaks.
  
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• Pelosi says USPS postmaster general told her he has 'no intention' of replacing the sorting machines and mailboxes that have been removed

  19-08-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pelosi tweeted the USPS head has "no intention of replacing the sorting machines, blue mailboxes and other infrastructure that have been removed."
  
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• Wuhan and Hubei Province officials tried to hide coronavirus information from China’s central leadership, US intelligence says

  19-08-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US intelligence officials claim that local officials in China kept the devastation caused by the coronavirus in its earliest days away from the broader Chinese government for weeks, slowing the nation's ability to respond to the virus before it began to spread.The intelligence report, detailed in a New York Times story, concluded that city officials in Wuhan and in Hubei Province, where the virus first emerged, attempted to hide the information from the central Chinese government.
  
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• U.N. tribunal verdict does not concern Hezbollah, says MP

  19-08-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lebanon's Hezbollah movement is not concerned with and will not "evaluate" the verdict of a U.N.-backed tribunal that convicted a member of the group of the 2005 killing of former premier Rafik al-Hariri, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said on Wednesday.Fadlallah, in the first comments by a Hezbollah official after Tuesday's verdict, told Al Mayadeen TV that the group has never recognised the court and this stance has only strengthened.The Iran-backed Hezbollah has denied any involvement in the b
  
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• COVID-19 vaccine won't be mandatory in US, says Fauci

  19-08-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infectious diseases official, said Wednesday the government wouldn't make any future COVID-19 vaccine obligatory for the general public -- though local jurisdictions could make it mandatory for some groups, like children.
  
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• Pelosi says postmaster general 'frankly admitted' he won't replace key USPS infrastructure

  19-08-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is slamming Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for his "misleading" announcement about the USPS after a private conversation.DeJoy on Tuesday announced he would be suspending operational changes at the United States Postal Service until after the presidential election to "avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail," as Democrats accuse the Trump administration of trying to slow down the USPS ahead of the election, in which mail-in ballots will wide
  
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• Iowa governor's push to reopen schools descends into chaos

  19-08-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An aggressive push by Iowa’s pro-Trump governor to reopen schools amid a worsening coronavirus outbreak has descended into chaos, with some districts and teachers rebelling and experts calling the scientific benchmarks used by the state arbitrary and unsafe.At issue is Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ mandate in July that districts offer at least 50% classroom instruction.The conflict intensified Wednesday when the statewide teachers union announced a lawsuit challenging the governor's
  
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• US won't seek death penalty against pair of IS militants

  19-08-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Justice Department has notified the British government that it will not pursue the death penalty against two Islamic State militants suspected in the beheadings of Western hostages, removing a hurdle in the potential prosecution of the men in the United States.The decision could open the door to Britain to begin sharing evidence with federal prosecutors in the U.S. for any possible case against El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey.An earlier British court ruling had effectively blocked the
  
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• Fact check: Vice President Mike Pence 'can't wait' to be on debate stage with Kamala Harris

  19-08-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The vice president has said on at least two occasions that he's looking forward to debating the Democratic senator in October in Utah.
  
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• Scientists harvest eggs from near-extinct northern white rhino

  19-08-2020 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Scientists racing to save the northern white rhino from extinction have harvested 10 more eggs from the last two females alive.
  
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