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• Sanders: America must be prepared for when Trump refuses to leave office

  04-09-2020 23:59 via politico.com
  
  ‘We need to alert the American people about what that nightmarish scenario might look like,’ the Vermont senator said.
  
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• Henry Winkler describes watching 'Happy Days' with grandson

  04-09-2020 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with one of his personal childhood heroes, actor Henry Winkler, about his life in quarantine. Watch "Full Circle" every Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6pm E.T.
  
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• Lawyer of accused Kenosha shooter has troubled financial past, steps away from defense fund that raised $700K

  04-09-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kyle Rittenhouse's attorney John Pierce, whose firm owes millions, has stepped away from the FightBack Foundation defense fund that raised $700,000.
  
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• Kosovo and Serbia give Israel diplomatic boon after US-brokered deal

  04-09-2020 23:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Majority-Muslim Kosovo will recognise Jewish state, while Serbia promises to relocate embassy to JerusalemIsrael scored two diplomatic gains on Friday when majority-Muslim Kosovo agreed to recognise the Jewish state and Serbia said it would move its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.The decisions came after a White House-brokered agreement between the two Balkan arch-rivals to normalise economic relations two decades after they fought a bitter war.Continue reading...
  
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• Why Trump should wait until after the election to announce a COVID-19 vaccine

  04-09-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In recent days, experts have become increasingly convinced — and alarmed — that President Trump is pushing to cut corners and rush the release of a COVID-19 vaccine before Nov. 3 to improve his chances in the election.
  
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• Kanye West isn't going to be president, but his unconventional bid forges on

  04-09-2020 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  Kanye West's secretive political operation has no shot of landing him a spot in the Oval Office, but he and the Republican operatives propping him up could still wreak havoc in a handful of battleground states come November.
  
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• Is Kanye's run for president a ploy?

  04-09-2020 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  According to sources, Republican operatives believe they have President Trump campaign's blessing to help Kanye West's presidential campaign. CNN's Sara Murray reports.
  
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• The biggest police union in the US just endorsed Trump for president

  04-09-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Fraternal Order of Police union represents over 535,000 officers across the US, and endorsed Trump in 2016 as well.
  
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• England produce remarkable fightback to beat Australia in first T20

  04-09-2020 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England pull off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 international at the Ageas Bowl.
  
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• Two ‘Boogaloo Bois’ Charged With Conspiring to Provide Support to Hamas

  04-09-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two self-described “Boogaloo Bois” were charged on Friday for allegedly conspiring and attempting to aid Hamas, the extremist Islamist group, as part of “their desire to overthrow the government” after protests erupted in Minneapolis over the police-killing of George Floyd.Michael Robert Solomon, 30, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, were charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the Department of Justice said in a
  
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• Trump panned over reports he called US war dead 'losers'

  04-09-2020 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A magazine claims he called US soldiers killed in action "losers", something the president denies.
  
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• Serbia, Kosovo normalize economic ties, gesture to Israel

  04-09-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The announcement provided Trump with a diplomatic win ahead of the November presidential election and furthers his administration's push to improve Israel's international standing.
  
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• Latino unemployment rate remains high at 10.5 percent despite slight job gains

  04-09-2020 23:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  "The leisure and hospitality industries as well as the retail industries—have taken the longest to kind of recover," says economic analyst Meggie Weiler.
  
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• Dire COVID-19 death toll projections from researchers Trump administration touted

  04-09-2020 23:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  There could be 400,000 additional coronavirus deaths this year in the United States, according to one forecast model.
  
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• Trump says he's reversing decision to shutter Stars and Stripes newspaper

  04-09-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a previously unpublicized memo cited by USA TODAY on Friday, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter the Stars and Stripes newspaper this month.
  
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• Trump says he's reversing Pentagon plan to defund 'Star and Stripes' newspaper

  04-09-2020 23:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Trump's move came amid growing opposition to the plan to stop funding the storied military publication.
  
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• ANALYSIS: Here's the problem for Trump with the Atlantic story

  04-09-2020 23:00 via cnn.com
  
  On Thursday night The Atlantic published a bombshell story that alleged -- citing four anonymous sources -- that President Donald Trump had repeatedly mocked US soldiers killed in battle and skipped a visit to a veterans' cemetery in France out of concern that rainy conditions would mess up his carefully coiffed hair.
  
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• US Open 2020: Naomi Osaka beats Marta Kostyuk to reach fourth round

  04-09-2020 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Naomi Osaka is given a test by Marta Kostyuk but eventually wins in three sets to reach the US Open fourth round.
  
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• Stacey Abrams has a message for Trump after he calls for supporters to vote more than once

  04-09-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Amazon documentary uses the life and career so far of a rising political star to warn of the scourge of voter suppression.
  
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• Weather Whiplash: From record-shattering heat to cold and snow

  04-09-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The weather does not get more extreme: record-breaking heat, massive temperature swings and early snow storms.
  
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• Amazon's 'The Boys' Season 2 is very dark, very cynical — and very good

  04-09-2020 22:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Underneath the cursing and Scientology parodies and the exploding whales, "The Boys" actually cares about all those super clichés such as justice and goodness and the virtue of fighting Nazis.
  
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• 10-man Northern Ireland snatch draw against Romania

  04-09-2020 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A late header by substitute Gavin Whyte snatches a draw for 10-man Northern Ireland in new manager Ian Baraclough's first game in charge.
  
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• Scotland frustrated by Israel at Hampden

  04-09-2020 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland are denied a fourth straight victory and a winning start to their Nations League campaign after a frustrating draw against Israel.
  
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• Congresswoman blocked from touring mail facility by Postal Service police

  04-09-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “If DeJoy thinks he can just throw a bed sheet over what’s going on behind these doors, he is sadly mistaken," the congresswoman said.
  
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• Facebook removes pages of right-wing group Patriot Prayer after Portland unrest

  04-09-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook Incon Friday removed the pages of U.S. right-wing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company spokesman told Reuters.Patriot Prayer has hosted dozens of pro-gun, pro-Trump rallies.Attendees have repeatedly clashed with left-wing groups around Portland, Oregon, where one group supporter was killed this week.
  
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• Beirut explosion: Hopes fade in search for survivor

  04-09-2020 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chilean rescue workers end a second day of searching, with no sign of a person beneath the rubble.
  
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• Chelsea sign Germany's Havertz for £71m

  04-09-2020 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea sign attacking midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen on a five-year contract in a deal worth about £71m.
  
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• Kosovo to recognize Israel and Serbia to move embassy to Jerusalem

  04-09-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel scored two diplomatic gains Friday when majority-Muslim Kosovo agreed to recognize the Jewish state and Serbia said it would move its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
  
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• Bodycam released of DC police shooting Black man

  04-09-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in the District of Columbia released this footage on Thursday … from the bodycam of a white officer, who shot and killed a young Black man on Wednesday.Slowed down, the footage shows what appears to show a gun in the hand of the man, who officers say was a suspect known to them:18-year-old Deon Kay.This is the first bodycam video made public, since emergency legislation was approved requiring DC police to release the footage within five days of an incident involving the use of dead
  
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• No amount of right-wing airbrushing will turn Kenosha shooter into a ‘patriot’ | Opinion

  04-09-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kyle Rittenhouse is not a hero.
  
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• Joe Biden suggests supporters of the 'mortifying' QAnon conspiracy theory should seek mental health treatment

  04-09-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump himself has praised followers of the QAnon conspiracy, which the FBI described as a domestic terrorism threat.
  
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• Anybody found that plane of thugs yet? -Biden

  04-09-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It's mortifying, it's embarrassing and it's dangerous," Biden said. In a Fox News interview late on Monday (Aug. 31), Trump said an investigation was under way into alleged “thugs” who boarded a plane seeking to cause damage last week during the Republican Party convention, without providing details or evidence.Asked for details by Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump said: "I'll tell you sometime, but it's under investigation right now."On Tuesday, Trump told reporters that it was s
  
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• Key West man threatens the mayor with violence and some bad language, police say

  04-09-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Key West man was jailed this week after police said he took to Facebook to threaten harm to the city’s mayor.
  
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• Hundreds of ancient mammoth skeletons were found buried under the site of a future airport in Mexico

  04-09-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Archaeologists in Mexico dug up 200 mammoth skeletons at the site of a planned airport. The finding could offer clues about why mammoths went extinct.
  
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• Trump's new coronavirus adviser uses made-up statistics and false claims to praise White House pandemic response

  04-09-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In recent days, Dr. Scott Atlas has eclipsed Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as Trump’s most visible, and presumably, trusted, coronavirus adviser.
  
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• Pro-democracy activists are again calling on people to boycott 'Mulan'

  04-09-2020 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  Disney's live-action remake of "Mulan" is now released -- but some people won't be watching.
  
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• Fauci warns these 7 states could see COVID uptick during Labor Day

  04-09-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American physician, immunologist, and infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has been cautioning the public about the greater effects of COVID-19–most recently warning that if Americans are “careless” then infection numbers will increase this fall.Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a conversation with former mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg, “there are several states that are at risk for surging.”
  
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• Osaka wears mask with Ahmaud Arbery's name at US Open and wins again

  04-09-2020 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  After wearing masks with the names of Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain in rounds at the US Open, Naomi Osaka bore the name of Ahmaud Arbery on her mask Friday, downing Marta Kostyuk 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-2 in New York.
  
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• Biden campaign responds to August jobs report, President Trump's denial that he denigrated US war dead

  04-09-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  T.J. Ducklo, national press secretary for the Biden campaign, joins Jon Scott with reaction on 'Bill Hemmer Reports.'
  
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• 3 deaths, 147 coronavirus cases now tied to Maine wedding

  04-09-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The three people who died as a result of the outbreak did not attend the wedding.
  
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• Soldier from Key West killed in military vehicle crash in Texas

  04-09-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A decorated U.S. Army soldier from Key West was killed in a military vehicle crash in Texas last week, according to reports by the Army Times and Stars and Stripes .
  
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• Group: Egypt arrests 2 journalists, one sick with COVID-19

  04-09-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Egyptian security forces have arrested two journalists, including one sick with COVID-19, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on news media during the pandemic, an international press watchdog reported Friday.On separate days in late August, officers burst into the homes of Hany Greisha and El-Sayed Shehta without warning, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.Greisha was ordered detained for 15 days on charges of spreading false news and joining a terrorist group, CPJ said, citi
  
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• Daniel Prude: Police union says officers followed training

  04-09-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Daniel Prude died in March after suffocating while in police custody.
  
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• Abcarian: Melania Trump's former bestie reveals the high price she paid for the friendship

  04-09-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who organized Trump's first inauguration, gave her all to a first lady she says was happy to toss her under the bus.
  
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• Governor: Portland 'violence must stop, period'

  04-09-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oregon Gov. Kate Brown told reporters Friday that "the violence must stop, period."The Democratic governor spoke at the start of a weekend that marks 100 consecutive nights of Black Lives Matter protests in the state's largest city, Portland. (Sept. 4)
  
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• Joe Biden: I have been tested for coronavirus

  04-09-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks on 'the economic crisis that has been worsened' by Trump and answers reporters’ questions.
  
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• 'My son wasn't a sucker': Joe Biden reacts to report that Trump denigrated soldiers – video

  04-09-2020 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  A furious Joe Biden castigated Donald Trump after it was reported that the US president had called dead soldiers 'losers' and 'suckers'. 'If what is written is true, it's disgusting,' Biden said. 'It affirms what most of us believe to be true: Donald Trump is not fit to be commander in chief.'Trump reportedly made the remarks when he cancelled a visit to pay respects at an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018. He has denied the allegations, first reported in the Atlantic ma
  
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• Trump's suggestion to vote twice could put many in legal jeopardy, Stacey Abrams says

  04-09-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump’s suggestion that people vote twice could make voters vulnerable to being accused of a crime and lead to longer lines and confusion at the polls, said former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. 
  
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• Jacob Blake, the Kenosha man shot by police, pleads not guilty to sexual assault charge

  04-09-2020 21:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  He wore a blue shirt and yellow tie while speaking to a judge via Zoom.
  
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• First results from Russian COVID-19 vaccine show antibody response

  04-09-2020 21:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  No serious side effects seen in 76 volunteers, according to published data from two trials.
  
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