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• Fact-checkers seize on Ivanka Trump speech claiming 'Dad' delivered on everything he promised four years ago

  27-08-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ivanka Trump has delivered an impassioned defence of her father, claiming he had delivered on every promise made four years ago, only to find her words leapt on almost immediately by media fact-checkers.Ms Trump, 38, spoke to introduce Donald Trump's nomination acceptance speech in the grounds of the White House on the final night of the Republican National Convention.
  
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• Wild windstorm kills 3, taints water in Melbourne, Australia

  27-08-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A wild storm that hit Australia's second-largest city knocked out power to 56,000 homes, contaminated the water supply and felled trees that killed three people, authorities said Friday.A 4-year-old boy was struck by a tree Thursday evening and died later in hospital, police said, as Melbourne was lashed by wind speeds up to 158 kph (98 mph).Around 56,000 homes lost power, Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews said.
  
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• Presidential historian Jon Meacham: I endorsed Biden because 'this is an existential election'

  27-08-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Historian and author Jon Meacham discusses why Trump is unfit for office and how he came to speak at the Democratic National Convention. He also shares his thinking on the Kenosha shootings and statue removals.
  
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• Tourist-heavy US islands are emerging as COVID-19 hotspots after staving off major outbreaks for months

  27-08-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cases are on the rise in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. They had emerged from the early months of the pandemic relatively unscathed.
  
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• Hurricane Laura's 'unsurvivable' storm surge: It looks like Louisiana was spared, but some rural areas likely hit hard

  27-08-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. John Bel Edwards said Louisiana "caught a break" on storm surge. The National Hurricane Center says the surge was likely as bad as feared.
  
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• Eric Trump says that all Democrats 'can talk about' is 'COVID, COVID, COVID' as US death toll exceeds 180,000

  27-08-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US has the highest number of confirmed cases in the world, making up almost 25% of total cases despite having just 4% of the planet's population.
  
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• Second Trump DHS official to turn on president brands him ‘racist’ in new attack ad

  27-08-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A second former member of Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has turned on the president, branding him ”racist” and endorsing Joe Biden.Elizabeth Neumann, who served in the department until April of this year, indicated the rise of white supremacy and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic as her reasons for turning on the president.
  
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• Kentucky man faces $750,000 fine, possible jail time for violating Canada's Quarantine Act

  27-08-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Northern Kentucky man traveled to a Canadian resort and got a visit from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for violating Canada's Quarantine Act.
  
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• 'Donald Trump froze': Kamala Harris rips into the president before his RNC speech

  27-08-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris delivers an advance rebuttal to President Trump's RNC speech.
  
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• Fox News' Chris Wallace calls out co-hosts for defending armed vigilantes

  27-08-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News' Chris Wallace has a brief legal reminder about vigilante justice.On Wednesday, a 17-year-old who appeared to be aligned with an armed vigilante group was arrested after allegedly shooting and killing two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Tuesday night. Several Fox News contributors and hosts discussed the situation in Kenosha on Thursday, with Katie Pavlich saying "on the topic of vigilante justice, when you have no police around ... then there is a void that is filled."Pav
  
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• 'I didn’t know it was going to be this bad': Cameron Parish, Louisiana, bears brunt of Laura's wrath

  27-08-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A tiny beach town in southwestern Louisiana bore the brunt of Hurricane Laura as winds estimated at 150 mph demolished nearly everything in its path.
  
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• Republicans and Democrats join forces to condemn Russian 'aggression' after a military vehicle crash that injured 4 US troops in Syria

  27-08-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "This is likely to continue until the Russians see that this incurs more costs than benefits for them."
  
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• Hurricane Laura leaves four dead in Louisiana but less damage than feared

  27-08-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least four people were killed by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and search teams may find more victims but the governor said Thursday that the most powerful storm to make landfall in the US state in living memory did not cause the "catastrophic" damage that had been feared.
  
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• North Miami neighbors claimed to be farmers to get COVID-19 relief. Feds gave them $1 million

  27-08-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus spread havoc in South Florida, prosecutors say Latoya Stanley and Johnny Philus hauled in $1 million in federal relief loans while claiming they were struggling to operate a beauty supply store, an auto leasing business and a couple of farms in North Miami.
  
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• Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for officers to be charged in Jacob Blake shooting

  27-08-2020 23:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A 17-year-old suspect was arrested in the shooting two people at a protest.
  
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• Black National Convention puts spotlight on police brutality

  27-08-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Black Lives Matter activists are holding their first Black National Convention Friday, a virtual event that will adopt a political agenda calling for slavery reparations, universal basic income, environmental justice and legislation that entirely re-imagines criminal justice reform.The gathering follows Democratic and Republican party conventions that laid out starkly different visions for America.It also comes on the heels of yet another shooting by a white police officer of a Black man —
  
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• Pelosi says coronavirus relief talks at 'tragic impasse' after first call with White House in weeks

  27-08-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Talks broke down between the speaker and the White House earlier this month and they remain about $1 trillion apart on how much to spend.
  
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• Army Paratrooper Shot in the Foot During Live-Fire Exercise at Fort Bragg

  27-08-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Army officials from Bragg but said the soldier suffered non life-threatening injuries.
  
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• An ex-Cisco employee pleaded guilty to causing damage to the tech giant's network which shut down over 16,000 Webex Teams accounts

  27-08-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An ex-Cisco employee pleaded guilty to breaking into into the tech giant's network and wiped out thousands of Webex Teams accounts.
  
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• California, Florida, New York, Texas will not follow new U.S. COVID-19 testing plan

  27-08-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey and New York all plan to continue to test asymptomatic people who have been exposed to COVID-19, despite new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggesting that such tests may not be needed."The current Texas guidance recommends testing for all close contacts of a confirmed case because it allows for early case identification among people who are at a higher risk of infection," a spokesman for t
  
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• White House says it's compiling dossier on journalists

  27-08-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  • Chinese dissident brought to US by Obama admin. praises Trump at RNC
  • Analysis: Trump's most irresponsible theory on Biden yet
  
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• Animals rescued from deadly California wildfires

  27-08-2020 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Veterinary teams in California have been treating horses, cats and an alpaca as wildfires continue to burn in the state.
  
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• Black Lives Matter isn’t a civil rights movement: Civil rights pioneer

  27-08-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Civil rights pioneer Clarence Henderson discusses division in the U.S., violent protests across the country and progress made for and by Black Americans.
  
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• Trump's RNC stage will be flanked by 54 American flags

  27-08-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump is a man who loves a good American flag. He's been known to tenderly pat Old Glory from time to time, and once gave a flag in Tampa the sort of hug typically reserved for long lost relatives, or soldiers returning home from war. Yes indeed, Trump is a man who loves the flag.Fittingly, on Thursday, the final night of the Republican convention, Trump will be flanked on stage by no fewer than 54 of his star-spangled friends (technically 55, if you count the one on top of the White H
  
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• Here's everything we know about the shooting victims at the Kenosha protests

  27-08-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The two victims of a deadly shooting during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin were a 26-year-old avid skateboarder and 36-year-old father to a young daughter, reports have indicated following the fatal incident that occurred on Tuesday night.Early reports indicated one of the victims was 26-year-old Anthony Huber of Silver Lake, who friends described as a “really sweet person” who “always had a smile on his face” and loved to skateboard.
  
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• Judge refuses to free ex-Green Beret accused of espionage

  27-08-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal magistrate judge in Virginia refused Thursday to free a former Army Green Beret who was arrested last week on a charge that he divulged U.S. military secrets to Russian intelligence agents.U.S. Magistrate Judge John Anderson agreed with federal prosecutors that Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, poses a risk to flee if he is released from custody before trial.Traxler said investigators had to corroborate details of a confession that he said Debbins gave when FBI agents questioned him
  
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• Record-setting season puts coastal states at increased risk of a hurricane landfall

  27-08-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Hurricane Laura winds down, two more tropical systems loom in a year where the U.S. faces an increased risk for land-falling hurricanes
  
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• Trump must turn over tax returns, does not deserve immunity, Manhattan's top prosecutor says

  27-08-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Manhattan's top prosecutor told a U.S. court on Thursday he should be able to obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns, saying Trump cannot immunize himself from a criminal probe of his business practices by pursuing an appeal that has "no chance of success."Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan district attorney, urged the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan in a filing to reject Trump's emergency bid to block a subpoena to the president's accounting firm, Mazars USA, for eight years of tax
  
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• In Prebuttal Speech, Kamala Harris Blasts Trump As 'Scared' and 'Wrong' on COVID

  27-08-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) arrived in person on Thursday ready to deliver arguably her most forceful—and strategic—admonishment of President Donald Trump in the general election. After briefly addressing the natural disasters imperiling the country, wildfires in California and Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and Texas, Harris set her sights on the human-generated horrors gripping the nation. “On the eve of the 57th March on Washington, I will speak about the recent events
  
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• Kamala Harris slams Trump's handling of coronavirus: 'He was scared'

  27-08-2020 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris lambasted President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic in a speech Thursday designed to prebut Trump's own appearance at the Republican National Convention hours later.
  
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• The DNC warned campaign staffers to 'swipe carefully' on dating apps because matches could be political opponents digging for dirt

  27-08-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Democratic official told Business Insider that the warning is "nothing new" and that campaign staff are frequently reminded to be vigilant online.
  
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• Did a Sailor Set Fire to One of America's Largest Warships?

  27-08-2020 22:15 via popularmechanics.com
  
  The USS Bonhomme Richard burned for four straight days in July. Now the Navy is investigating arson.
  
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• Drone maker General Atomics lays off hundreds

  27-08-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Privately held drone maker General Atomics, of San Diego, is laying off approximately 630 of its roughly 10,000 employees.
  
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• Differences over coronavirus aid remain, Pelosi says after talks with White House aide

  27-08-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after talks with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Thursday that Democrats and Republicans remain far apart over how much to spend on the next coronavirus relief legislation.In a statement, Pelosi said Democrats had offered to cut the amount in the bill to $2.2 trillion, but she suggested the White House, which has said it is looking to spend $1 trillion, had rejected the offer.“This conversation made clear that the White Hou
  
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• Protesters set up a guillotine outside Jeff Bezos' mansion and demanded higher wages for Amazon workers after the CEO's net worth surpassed $200 billion

  27-08-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The protest came the day after Bezos' net worth exceeded $200 billion for the first time, making him one of the richest people in history.
  
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• The Christchurch shooter's sentence will consign him to nothingness | Steve Braunias

  27-08-2020 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Justice has been seen to be done and the stories of his victims and those left behind will live onThey called him a mouse. A sheep. A coward. A loser. A peasant. A terrorist. A nothing. The latter two accusations made against Brenton Tarrant in the high court of Christchurch this week were the most factual; convicted of 51 counts of murder and an act of terrorism, his sentence of life without parole has consigned him to the void. He will cease to exist.Good. He was bad rubbish, sentenced with al
  
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• New book details behind-the-scenes tensions between Melania and Ivanka Trump

  27-08-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Melania Trump's former confidant Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is dishing out a behind-the-scenes look at the allegedly contentious relationship between the first lady and first daughter Ivanka Trump.
  
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• Fact checking night 3 of the RNC: Speakers offer compelling but sometimes misleading stories

  27-08-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Testimonials Wednesday from President Donald Trump's closest advisers and key supporters were compelling but also sometimes misleading.
  
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• Rep. Debbie Dingell shares her Big Idea on reforming presidential primary elections

  27-08-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., says Iowa and New Hampshire should no longer hold the first primary contests and other states should have a chance at the candidate's attention starting in 2024.
  
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• ‘Gutting experience’: California fire evacuees begin to return home to assess the damage

  27-08-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Cal Fire gains footing on blazes across the northern part of the state, many residents are realizing they have no home to return toAs firefighters continued beating back the huge fires burning through northern California, thousands of evacuees began to return home.Many residents across the region face uncertain, unsettling days ahead as officials assess damage from the blazes, which have killed at least seven people, scorched more than 1.2m acres and destroyed nearly 2,000 homes and structure
  
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• Democratic presidential nominee says President and allies are ratcheting up fearful rhetoric for political gain

  27-08-2020 21:55 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told CNN on Thursday that President Donald Trump and his allies are "rooting for violence" in American streets because it allows them to drive fear for political gain.
  
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• Biden: Trump is rooting for violence

  27-08-2020 21:55 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told CNN on Thursday that President Donald Trump and his allies are "rooting for violence" in American streets because it allows them to drive fear for political gain.
  
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• Pentagon slams Chinese missile launches in South China Sea

  27-08-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Defense Department said Thursday that Chinese test launches of ballistic missiles in the South China Sea were threatening peace and security in the region.
  
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• Hurricane Laura's winds batter Louisiana, killing four

  27-08-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is severe damage from the US state's most powerful storm, but flooding is less than feared.
  
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• Pence said Americans won't be safe with Biden. See response

  27-08-2020 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tells CNN's Anderson Cooper he believes President Donald Trump and his allies are "rooting for violence" because it exploits fear for their political gain.
  
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• Pence said Americans won't be safe with Biden. See his response

  27-08-2020 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tells CNN's Anderson Cooper he believes President Donald Trump and his allies are "rooting for violence" because it exploits fear for their political gain.
  
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• Michigan official slams racial 'stereotypes' in mail-voting robocalls

  27-08-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top official in the Michigan, a battleground U.S. election state, on Thursday condemned a computerized phone call campaign for using "racially charged stereotypes" to discourage voting by mail.Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat and the state's top election official, posted on Twitter a recording of the robocall, in which a person made false claims that people who vote by mail could be subject to more scrutiny by police and by credit card companies seeking payment."My office
  
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• Authorities' first version of Jacob Blake shooting leaves gaping holes in timeline

  27-08-2020 21:16 via cnn.com
  
  Wisconsin authorities released new details Wednesday on the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, which has reignited protests across the state and country demanding an end to police brutality.
  
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• Teacher reinstated after parents complained about Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ posters

  27-08-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Texas school district backtracked after placing English teacher Taylor Lifka on leave over the posters in her virtual classroom.
  
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• Liberty students, alumni split on Falwell's scandalous exit

  27-08-2020 21:06 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Some say he has sinned but should be forgiven. Others want an investigation.
  
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