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• Fact check: Antifa.com redirects to Joe Biden's website, but Biden campaign not involved

  02-09-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Antifa.com is not connected to presidential candidate Joe Biden, though it started redirecting users to the campaign's website in August.
  
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• U.S. Republicans criticize Pelosi over hair appointment

  02-09-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Republicans criticized House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday for going to a hair salon in San Francisco in an apparent violation of the city's coronavirus pandemic regulations, but the Democratic leader said she had been told by the salon the appointment was allowed.Pelosi briefly addressed the issue to reporters in San Francisco, saying, "I take responsibility for falling for a set-up."Under strict rules to combat the coronavirus pandemic, hair salons in San Francisco
  
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• Shots fired, and 2 Black Florida men worry about justice

  02-09-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Minutes after pulling into a Florida strip mall parking lot, gunshots rang out in the darkness.Charles McMillon told his 10-year-old son and another passenger to take cover.McMillon, who is Black, said a white couple approached with guns in their hands.
  
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• Second Trump appointee out at FDA amid credibility concerns

  02-09-2020 23:56 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A second Trump administration appointee has been ousted at the Food and Drug Administration after the agency’s botched announcement about an experimental therapy for COVID-19
  
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• 'Is it because we're Black?' Family of man killed by police in San Leandro Walmart demand answers, action

  02-09-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police have confirmed that one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Steven Taylor inside a San Leandro Walmart will be charged.
  
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• US attorney general responds to what Trump said about him on Fox News

  02-09-2020 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Attorney General Bill Barr responded to Trump's comments on Fox News about investigating former President Obama and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
  
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• Bill Barr responds to what Trump said about him on Fox

  02-09-2020 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Attorney General Bill Barr responded to Trump's comments on Fox News about investigating former President Obama and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
  
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• US slaps sanctions on war crimes court prosecutor

  02-09-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday slapped sanctions on the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court -- a move that The Hague-based tribunal called a "serious" attack against the rule of law.
  
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• Reports, Trump tweet about 'mini strokes' spark speculation about president's health: What we know

  02-09-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump insisted he had not "suffered a series of mini-strokes," prompting response that questioned his ability to lead.
  
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• Jared Kushner's supermodel sister-in-law Karlie Kloss plans to campaign for Biden

  02-09-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Karlie Kloss has long been vocal about her liberal values, despite having a brother-in-law who works for President Donald Trump.
  
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• Miami-Dade Public Schools' remote learning platform endures days of cyberattacks

  02-09-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some of the cyberattacks are local, while others have come from outside the United States.
  
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• Voter: It's obvious what a future with Trump looks like

  02-09-2020 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump claims Democrats will destroy the American suburbs, so CNN went to the battleground state of Ohio to gauge whether that message is resonating. CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports the President's message has been a turnoff for some.
  
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• U.S. Attorney General Barr says antifa 'flying around' U.S. to incite violence

  02-09-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday said the Justice Department was monitoring the protest movement antifa, saying that it is at the heart of violence in cities around the country."I've talked to every police chief in every city where there has been major violence and they all have identified antifa as the ramrod for the violence," Barr said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer."We see some of the purchases they are making before the riots of weapons to use in those riots," Barr a
  
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• Census document says cutting steps risks errors in count

  02-09-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  To meet an end-of-the-year deadline, some steps in the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census will need to be cut and that could increase the risk for errors, according to an internal U.S. Census Bureau document made public Wednesday by House Democrats.The internal document released by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform says that some efforts to meet the Dec. 31 deadline for turning in numbers used for redrawing congressional districts “represent abbreviated processes or elimi
  
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• Body neutrality: What if you don't really love or hate your body?

  02-09-2020 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Body neutrality encourages people to appreciate their bodies for what it does, rather than how it looks.
  
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• SE Cupp on new Biden ad: He's speaking my love language

  02-09-2020 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  SE Cupp discusses the new political ad by Vice President Joe Biden targeting black voters and why it is "speaking her love language."
  
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• Joe Biden says police officers who shot Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor should be charged

  02-09-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden's comments are in stark contrast to President Donald Trump's attitude toward the event during a visit to Kenosha on Tuesday.
  
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• Good luck getting answers out of Russia on its latest high-profile poisoning

  02-09-2020 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  When the German government said Wednesday that Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny had been poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok, one thing was certain: The apparent murder attempt would become a full international crisis.
  
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• COVID-19 death tied to Sturgis Rally reported in Minnesota

  02-09-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Minnesota man who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota last month has died of COVID-19, officials reported Wednesday.
  
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• Kennedy loss in Massachusetts may mark end of 'Camelot' era

  02-09-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy famously compared his 1,000-day presidency to “Camelot,” a popular Broadway musical about the legend of King Arthur — crafting a wistful shorthand for the Kennedy tenure, and by extension the entire Kennedy dynasty.Now, 60 years after JFK’s election as president, some are wondering if the days of “Camelot” are over after U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy lll’s failed attempt to oust incumb
  
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• First known Covid death tied to huge motorcycle rally reported

  02-09-2020 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  The first known Covid-19 death stemming from last month's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was reported in Minnesota, the state's health department said.
  
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• First COVID-19 death linked to massive Sturgis biker rally; cases reported across the nation

  02-09-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Minnesota man who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has died from COVID-19, a health official said Wednesday.
  
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• Pelosi Asks Salon Owner to Apologize for ‘Set Up,’ Pleads Ignorance on California Lockdown Law

  02-09-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding an apology from a San Francisco hair salon owner for what she is calling a “set up” against her, after the California Democrat was caught inside the salon without a mask in violation of city guidelines. The city had forced salons to close in March to limit the spread of coronavirus and had only allowed their reopening with limited outdoor operations beginning on Tuesday. Pelosi can be seen on security footage obtained by Fox News walking i
  
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• Fact check: The 9 conspiracy theories Trump is currently pushing

  02-09-2020 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has been a conspiracy theorist for years. Perhaps never before, though, has he pushed so many conspiracy theories at one time.
  
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• Fact check: A guide to 9 conspiracies Trump is pushing

  02-09-2020 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has been a conspiracy theorist for years. Perhaps never before, though, has he pushed so many conspiracy theories at one time.
  
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• A guide to 9 conspiracy theories Trump is currently pushing

  02-09-2020 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has been a conspiracy theorist for years. Perhaps never before, though, has he pushed so many conspiracy theories at one time.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi says she was victim of 'setup' in hair salon mask dispute

  02-09-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * House speaker says San Francisco salon owes her apology* Pelosi was photographed in salon without a face covering * Coronavirus – latest updates* See all our coronavirus coverageNancy Pelosi has claimed to have been “set up”, after she was photographed in a San Francisco hair salon without a face covering, breaking the city’s coronavirus prevention rules.“I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I’ve been to many times,&rdqu
  
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• Republican Sen. Joni Ernst promoted a far-right conspiracy theory that falsely claims coronavirus cases are inflated by healthcare providers

  02-09-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Joni Ernst questioned whether the confirmed number of COVID-19 cases in the US are being overcounted.
  
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• Store owner rejects Trump's invite. See who appeared with him instead

  02-09-2020 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  A store owner in Kenosha, Wisconsin, whose store was destroyed by rioters following the shooting of Jacob Blake explains why he rejected President Trump's invitation to tour the damage. CNN affiliate WTMJ reports.
  
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• Health officials warn U.S. is not ready to roll out COVID-19 vaccine

  02-09-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While one or more vaccine could be available toward the end of this year or early next, the path to delivering vaccines to 330 million people remains unclear for the local health officials expected to carry out the work.
  
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• Nile dam row: US 'to cut $100m in aid' to Ethiopia

  02-09-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ethiopia has begun filling the mega dam before reaching an agreement with Sudan and Egypt.
  
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• CDC 'urgently' tells states to get coronavirus vaccine distribution running by Nov. 1

  02-09-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal government has hinted to states a COVID-19 vaccine may be ready before Election Day.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services "are rapidly making preparations to implement large-scale distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines in the fall of 2020," CDC head Robert Redfield said in a letter to governors last week. Therefore, the CDC is "urgently" asking states to start "expediting applications" for COVID-19 vaccine distribution facilitie
  
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• CDC tells states to prep for vaccines as soon as late October

  02-09-2020 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told public health officials around the United States to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine as soon as late October. It also provided planning scenarios to help states prepare.
  
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• Russia steps up support for private military contractor in Libya: U.N. report

  02-09-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia has stepped up its logistic support for private military contractor Wagner Group in Libya with some 338 military cargo flights from Syria in the nine months to July 31 to aid Wagner fighters backing eastern-based Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, according to a U.N. report seen by Reuters on Wednesday.The report by independent sanctions monitors - submitted to the U.N. Security Council Libya sanctions committee, but not yet public - also found that Turkey, the United Arab Emirates,Jordan,
  
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• What do Depression-era poultry and male pattern baldness have to do with COVID-19?

  02-09-2020 22:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  It’s important that we don't only fund studies that show immediate, useful results or we won't be able to defeat the viruses of the future.
  
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• Fauci breaks with Trump on COVID-19 herd immunity: ‘That’s certainly not my approach’

  02-09-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “That’s not a fundamental strategy that we’re using.”
  
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• Editor of Kenosha newspaper quits over tone-deaf coverage: ‘Today is about Jacob Blake’

  02-09-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An editor at The Kenosha News resigned over what he believed to be a problematic headline that mischaracterized what took place during a peaceful protest.According to the New York Times, Daniel J. Thompson, who used to be a digital editor at the paper – and has also alleged he was the only full-time Black staff member – said he took issue with a headline that not only misrepresented the article it accompanied but also sought to give a false and negative impression of a rall
  
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• 'That's just weird': CNN's Keilar debunks Jackson's claim

  02-09-2020 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  Ronny Jackson spoke out about the President's 2019 visit to Walter Reed hospital in addition to commenting on his and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's health. CNN's Brianna Keilar fact-checks President Donald Trump's former physician.
  
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• 'That's just weird': CNN anchor debunks claim by Trump's former doctor

  02-09-2020 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  Ronny Jackson spoke out about the President's 2019 visit to Walter Reed hospital in addition to commenting on his and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's health. CNN's Brianna Keilar fact-checks President Donald Trump's former physician.
  
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• Chilean truckers end week-long strike on promise of beefed up security

  02-09-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chilean truckers said on Wednesday they would lift a seven-day strike that has damaged supply chains and raised fears for food and commodities exports, following a deal with government.Jose Villagran, vice president of the National Confederation of the Chilean Cargo Transport (CNTC), said the strike would end at 3 p.m. local time.Strikers pushed Congress to fast-track a dozen security bills after a spike in arson attacks on their vehicles which culminated in the shooting of a nine-year-old girl
  
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• Chilean truckers end to week-long strike on promise of beefed up security

  02-09-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chilean truckers said on Wednesday they would lift a seven-day strike that has damaged supply chains and raised fears for food and commodities exports, following a deal with government.Jose Villagran, vice president of the National Confederation of the Chilean Cargo Transport (CNTC), said the strike would end at 3 p.m. local time.Strikers pushed Congress to fast-track a dozen security bills after a spike in arson attacks on their vehicles which culminated in the shooting of a nine-year-old girl
  
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• African priest wearing coronavirus face mask suddenly collapses, dies during sermon, video shows

  02-09-2020 22:11 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Cameroon priest was captured on video Sunday collapsing and dying right in the middle of preaching a sermon. 
  
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• Trump, Biden will both mark 9/11 anniversary in Shanksville

  02-09-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in rural Pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed in a field, the White House and Biden's campaign announced Wednesday.The National Park Service, which co-hosts the annual memorial event, is planning an abbreviated ceremony this year to minimize the spread of the coronavirus.The agency plans a 20-minute “Moment of Remembrance" set to begin at 9:45 a.m.,
  
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• Georgia wrongfully removed nearly 200,000 residents from voter rolls, new report says

  02-09-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  None of the voters had ever moved and were mistakenly purged.
  
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• Joe Biden is worried Americans won't get a coronavirus vaccine because of Trump's lies

  02-09-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People have lost confidence in the government, Biden said, adding, "Why do we think the public is gonna line up to be willing to take the injection?"
  
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• Nate Silver's analysis of Biden's Electoral College chances renews calls to repeal it altogether

  02-09-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden could earn an even bigger popular vote margin than Hillary Clinton did in 2016 and still lose to President Trump.That's the reality FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver revealed in a Wednesday tweet, in which he showed how winning the popular vote would affect Biden's chances of winning the Electoral College. Silver's analysis showed Biden needs a very solid popular vote just to have a good chance of winning, once again renewing arguments against the Electoral
  
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• Biden says police officers who shot Jacob Blake and killed Breonna Taylor should be charged: 'Let's make sure justice is done'

  02-09-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a campaign event on Wednesday, Joe Biden was asked whether he thought charges should be filed against the officers involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake and in the death of Breonna Taylor.The former vice president and Democratic Party candidate said that he felt that there was a minimum need for the officers to be charged in both cases so that the judicial system can work as designed.
  
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• Joe Biden explains purpose of visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin

  02-09-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee answers reporter's question at campaign event in Wilmington, Delaware.
  
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• CNN Poll: Biden's lead persists post-conventions

  02-09-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  After two political conventions unlike any the United States had seen before, Joe Biden maintains an advantage over Donald Trump in the race for the presidency, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
  
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• Duped by Russia, freelancers ensnared in disinformation campaign by promise of easy money

  02-09-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When freelance journalist Laura Walters submitted a 1,000 word article about Chinese political influence in New Zealand to her new editors at non-profit media outlet Peace Data, the response was emphatic."I'd like to express our deep gratitude for your work," wrote Peace Data communications manager Alice Schultz in a June 15 email seen by Reuters."It's hard to believe how totalitarian countries like China (or Russia) are finding their ways to meddle even in the strongest democracies around the g
  
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