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• Facebook prepares legal action against Thai government's request to block group

  24-08-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  Facebook said it is planning legal action against Thailand's demand that forced the company to block a group deemed critical of the country's monarchy.
  
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• Trump's Postmaster General Reveals Impressive Lack of Knowledge About Mail

  24-08-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats have labored to make the case that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy knowingly acted as a henchman for President Donald Trump's designs on the U.S. Postal Service.But during a high-profile congressional hearing on Monday, they might have made a different point more successfully: that he doesn’t know what he’s doing.When he took over the Postal Service’s top job in June, DeJoy, a former logistics executive and Trump mega-donor, presided over an overhaul of mail delivery p
  
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• Chill. That asteroid sweeping by Earth before Election Day is the size of a mattress

  24-08-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA even took to Twitter to tamp down the alarm.
  
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• Pompeo address to Republicans at odds with instruction to his own diplomats

  24-08-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will speak to the Republican National Convention this week despite having told U.S. diplomats that presidential appointees may not take part in any such partisan political activity.Pompeo's planned speech "will violate legal restrictions on political activities according to a longstanding interpretation by State Department lawyers," Democratic Representative Eliot Engel, chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
  
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• NBA star LeBron James' group plans effort to recruit poll workers for November

  24-08-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More Than a Vote, a group of prominent athletes fighting voter suppression, will collaborate with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on the program in a dozen states, including battlegrounds such as Georgia, Michigan, Florida and Wisconsin, where disenfranchisement affects Black voters, the source said.The New York Times first reported the effort, which will recruit young people as poll workers and include a paid advertising program and corporate partnership to encourage employees to volunteer as poll
  
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• Hong Kong man 'first case' documented of getting coronavirus twice, researchers say

  24-08-2020 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  A 33-year-old man living in Hong Kong had Covid-19 twice this year, according to preliminary research.
  
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• How sex in Jerry Falwell ‘pool boy’ saga finally went public, and what’s left unsaid

  24-08-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both sides have confirmed a sexual component to the business relationship between Jerry and Becki Falwell and the young Fontainebleau Miami Beach employee they befriended on vacation. The hotel meeting spawned a “pool boy” saga with threads that included a corporate-jet getaway to meet future president Donald Trump and a hunt for racy photos in Miami by Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen.
  
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• Sydney Sutherland: Suspect in death knew victim and joined search party Facebook group

  24-08-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The farmer accused of killing Arkansas resident Sydney Sutherland was known to the victim and joined a Facebook group dedicated to finding her after she went missing.Sutherland was last seen running on State Highway 18, near Newport, Arkansas, on Wednesday, and the 25-year-old’s body was found on Friday following a two day search involving helicopters and K-9 units, according to the Daily Mail.
  
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• Democratic congressman on supporting Trump

  24-08-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Vernon Jones spoke on the first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention.
  
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• Revved by Sturgis Rally, COVID-19 infections move fast, far

  24-08-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The hundreds of thousands of bikers who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have departed western South Dakota, but public health departments in multiple states are trying to measure how much and how quickly the coronavirus spread in bars, tattoo shops and gatherings before people traveled home to nearly every state in the country.From the city of Sturgis, which is conducting mass testing for its roughly 7,000 residents, to health departments in at least six states, health officials are tr
  
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• Fact check: Fake Kamala Harris quote that 'our military are soulless cowards' is from satire site

  24-08-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Harris never called the military "soulless cowards." The statement originated from a satirical site in 2019 and has previously been fact-checked.
  
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• Gymnasts allege mistreatment by GB head coach Reddin

  24-08-2020 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two gymnasts allege they were subjected to mistreatment by British Gymnastics head coach Amanda Reddin.
  
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• WWII surrender ceremony in Hawaii limited to local veterans

  24-08-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Pearl Harbor ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II — possibly the last opportunity for many aging U.S. veterans to commemorate the day — will be limited to survivors of the war living in Hawaii because of coronavirus concerns.The plan before Friday had been to allow about 200 people, mostly WWII veterans, their families and government officials, to gather on the battleship USS Missouri, which hosted the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay.Ton
  
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• Prominent evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr. denies having a sexual relationship with a former Miami pool attendant but says his wife did

  24-08-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Becki had an inappropriate personal relationship with this person, something in which I was not involved," Falwell said.
  
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• Dozens of University of Southern California students have COVID-19

  24-08-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 43 students who have tested positive are living in off-campus residences, and more than 100 others have been told to quarantine.
  
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• White House staging and Trump aides' roles at RNC may violate ethics laws, experts say

  24-08-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Republican National Convention, with its planned use of the White House as backdrop and speeches from administration officials, spurs outcry from ethics experts.
  
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• NY attorney general demands Eric Trump testimony in Trump probe

  24-08-2020 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The filing into alleged fraud by the Trump Organization comes on day one of the Republican Convention.
  
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• Long delays at U.S.-Mexico border crossings after new travel restrictions

  24-08-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans who regularly cross the border from Mexico reported long wait times to re-enter the United States on Monday after U.S. officials imposed new COVID-19-related restrictions on cross-border travel by U.S. citizens and permanent residents.The U.S. government closed lanes at select ports of entry on the border and began conducting more secondary checks to limit non-essential travel and slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Friday.Accord
  
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• Twin threats: Marco weakens as Laura gains strength

  24-08-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ahead of Laura, hurricane and storm surge watches will likely be required for portions of the Gulf Coast by Monday evening
  
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• Gun-toting couple who aimed at unarmed black protesters complain they face charges and not the ‘mob’

  24-08-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A couple from St Louis who earned notoriety after pointing guns at unarmed black protesters have complained that they face criminal charges, and not “the mob” they claim threatened them.Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who were photographed brandishing semi-automatic guns at protesters who walked near their home during a June demonstration for racial justice following the killing of George Floyd, face charges of unlawful use of a weapon.
  
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• US signals it will deport Colombian warlord to Italy

  24-08-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorneys for the Justice Department signaled the U.S. would deport a former Colombian paramilitary warlord to Italy within the next two weeks despite a last-minute challenge by the South American nation to seek his extradition.The announcement came in a hearing Monday in Washington, DC federal court in which Salvatore Mancuso was seeking a judge's order to force Attorney General William Barr to immediately remove him to Italy, where he also has citizenship, after completing a 12-year narcotics
  
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• Top California court overturns death penalty of Scott Peterson, who murdered pregnant wife

  24-08-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scott Peterson, the California man convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son during a sensational 2004 trial, won a reversal of his death penalty on Monday after the state's top court ruled that the trial judge had erred in jury selection.The ruling means that Peterson, who has been held on death row at San Quentin State prison since 2005, has the right to a new penalty phase of his trial.California has not executed a condemned inmate since 2006.
  
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• Scott Peterson death penalty overturned by California Supreme Court

  24-08-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The justices said the trial judge “made a series of ... errors" in Peterson's high-profile 2004 trial for killing his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson.
  
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• Turkey-Greece rival military exercises due as oil tensions rise

  24-08-2020 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The two countries, at loggerheads over oil and gas finds, announce manoeuvres for Tuesday off Crete.
  
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• Williams digs deep to beat qualifier in New York

  24-08-2020 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  American Serena Williams overcomes a scare against Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus to reach the Western and Southern Open third round.
  
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• Flordelis de Souza: Brazilian MP accused of ordering husband's murder

  24-08-2020 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police say the evangelical lawmaker is behind an alleged family murder plot in Rio de Janeiro.
  
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• As world grapples with pandemic, schools are the epicenter

  24-08-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world is settling into a new normal for everyday life amid the coronavirus pandemic: online school classes, intermittent Zoom outages, museums that will only allow about a quarter of their usual visitors.More than 800,000 people worldwide have perished from the virus and more than 23.5 million have contracted it, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University — figures experts say understate the true toll due to limited testing, missed mild cases and other factors.A significant red f
  
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• American Airlines' new plane disinfectant works for a full week, but doesn't stop the main way COVID-19 spreads

  24-08-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The EPA issued an emergency authorization for American Airlines to use a new anti-microbial spray which is reportedly effective for a full week.
  
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• 'Four more years': Trump Agriculture Secretary appears to break rules prohibiting officials from making campaign statements during formal events

  24-08-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue appeared to flagrantly violate the ethics law prohibiting government officials from making political statements during officials events when he advocated for "four more years" for President Donald Trump at an official function in Mills River, N.C., on Monday."Mr President, as you saw those throngs of people lining both sides of the road from the airport all the way to Mills River here, those were those forgotten people that voted for you for 2016. And I've g
  
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• 'Wrong, misleading or outright lies.' John King and Anderson Cooper fact check Trump's RNC speech

  24-08-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Anderson Cooper and John King go over some of the misleading claims President Trump made moments after he was formally renominated as the Republican Party standard-bearer. Visit CNN's 'Facts First' database here.
  
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• Why people are leaving New York city

  24-08-2020 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jason Carroll takes a look at the challenges New York City is facing to mount a comeback following its struggle with coronavirus.
  
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• UK's Boris Johnson urges parents to send children back to school as experts warn of low coronavirus risk

  24-08-2020 22:35 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging British parents to send their children to school next month when schools reopen in full, as the U.K.’s top medical experts have warned that children are more likely to be harmed by keeping them closed.
  
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• A British man is offering 'ghost ship' tours of abandoned cruise ships in the English Channel

  24-08-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The "ghost ship tour" departs from Christchurch and treats passengers to up-close views of towering cruise ships now manned by skeleton crews.
  
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• For mail carriers, neighborhoods and my family, the US Postal Service is personal.

  24-08-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In communities across America, the U.S. Postal Service wins the trust of neighbors on the ground, person to person.
  
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• Postmaster general admits he doesn't know what it costs to mail a postcard

  24-08-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What does it cost to mail a postcard? Don't ask the guy in charge of the United States Postal Service.Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before Congress on Monday to face questions from lawmakers about controversial changes at USPS. But when it was Rep. Katie Porter's (D-Calif.) turn for questions, she decided to open with a bit of a pop quiz about Postal Service prices.For one, she wanted to know, what does a first class postage stamp cost? Fifty-five cents, he answered. But how much does
  
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• Jogging Nurse Was Raped and Buried by Farmer, Cops Say

  24-08-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Arkansas nurse who vanished while jogging was abducted, raped, and buried, police said during a court hearing Monday for the farmer charged with her murder.Quake Lewellyn, 28, a third-generation farmer, was silent as he walked up the steps to the courthouse in Jackson County, wearing an orange jumpsuit and a bulletproof vest.But authorities say he confessed when they questioned him about last week’s disappearance of Sydney Sutherland and led investigators to her body on a farm.According
  
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• Scott Peterson's death sentence overturned by California supreme court

  24-08-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction but overturned the 2005 death sentence for Scott Peterson in the slaying of his pregnant wife, and said prosecutors may try again for the same sentence if they wish in the case that attracted worldwide attention.
  
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• Olympic legend Bolt awaits coronavirus test result

  24-08-2020 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jamaican former sprinter and eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt is awaiting results of a recent coronavirus test while self-isolating.
  
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• Most college students ‘absolutely certain’ they’ll vote, report finds. But for whom?

  24-08-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The poll surveyed 4,000 full-time four-year students.
  
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• Local virus cases in Gaza raise fears of a wider outbreak

  24-08-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities in the Gaza Strip on Monday announced the first coronavirus cases spread through the community, raising fears of a potentially devastating outbreak in the impoverished Palestinian territory blockaded by Israel and Egypt.Until now, all the cases reported in Gaza were linked to quarantine facilities for residents returning from abroad.The Health Ministry said four people from the same family have tested positive for the virus in central Gaza and investigations were underway to track th
  
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• Hannity infuriated colleagues by pre-recording his Fox News show the night Trump was impeached: book

  24-08-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “There’s no one in the building, except maybe Rupert [Murdoch], who can tell Sean to knock it off"
  
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• Before Apple yanked 'Fortnite' from the App Store, Epic asked Apple to put its own digital game store on iPhones and iPads

  24-08-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney asked Tim Cook to publish a "competing Epic Games Store app available through the iOS App Store." Apple declined.
  
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• Corey Lewandowski previews vision of RNC, defends Trump administration's COVID response

  24-08-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senior Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski joins Bill Hemmer with insight on 'Bill Hemmer Reports.'
  
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• Melania Trump, Karen Pence and others photographed without masks at White House event

  24-08-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Melania Trump has been photographed not wearing a face mask at an event at the White House, where she reportedly hugged and shook hands with multiple children.The first lady of the United States was at an event on Monday that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which allowed white American women the right to vote.
  
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• Fact check: Over 8,000 US trafficking arrests since 2017 have not included members of Congress

  24-08-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Claims online of 3,100 arrests for human trafficking in the U.S. since 2017, including 38 members of Congress, are false.
  
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• Iowa State University forced a professor to change his syllabus after he threatened to kick students out of class if they participate in racism, sexism, or homophobia

  24-08-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The syllabus said "arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter" will be "grounds for dismissal from the classroom."
  
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• England boss Southgate faces Maguire selection dilemma

  24-08-2020 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manager Gareth Southgate picks his first England squad of 2020 on Tuesday. Will Harry Maguire be in it?
  
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• Gov. Newsom breaks down latest COVID-19 data

  24-08-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom held a news briefing Monday with the latest on the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic and the many wildfires burning throughout California.
  
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• The postmaster general tried to stop Trump's attacks on the Post Office. An hour later, Trump did it again.

  24-08-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Postmaster Louis DeJoy isn't thrilled with President Trump's attacks on mail-in voting either.DeJoy, a Trump appointee, testified before Congress on Monday regarding the wave of delays and concerning changes he has overseen within the United States Postal Service over the past few months. The inability to promise on-time deliveries is becoming especially worrisome as the 2020 election draws closer — and as Trump continues to stoke fear regarding all the mail-in voting that's about to happe
  
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• 'Absolutely repugnant': Biden's campaign forcefully disavows an endorsement from neo-Nazi Richard Spencer

  24-08-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Biden campaign staffer tweeted that what Spencer stands for is "absolutely repugnant," adding, "Your support is 10,000% percent unwelcome here."
  
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