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• CNN's Kaitlan Collins fires back at McEnany over Trump's mask claim

  16-09-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Kaitlan Collins fact checks White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany over President Trump's latest claim casting doubts on wearing masks.
  
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• CNN reporter fires back at White House press secretary over Trump's mask claim

  16-09-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Kaitlan Collins fact checks White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany over President Trump's latest claim casting doubts on wearing masks.
  
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• Students devastated by loss of Boston University professor who was killed in elevator accident

  16-09-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The accident remains under investigation while documents from the state show that the elevator was inspected each of the last four years.
  
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• 'He was confused': Trump says health chief 'mistaken' to say vaccine won't be widely available until mid-2021

  16-09-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘There’s no reason why the Pac-12 shouldn’t be playing now,’ president says after Big Ten votes to play this fall
  
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• Jill Biden's $695 'vote' boots are selling fast days after she wore them in public

  16-09-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stuart Weitzman, which designed Dr. Jill Biden's 5050 Vote boots, has pledged 100% of its profits from the item to a nonprofit organization.
  
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• California braces for high winds that could propel deadly wildfires

  16-09-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California faces more devastation from wildfires that have ravaged the West Coast, authorities warned Wednesday, with strong winds and dry heat expected to whip up flames from dozens of blazes raging across the state.
  
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• Man who shot federal officer is mentally ill, ex-wife says

  16-09-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man who opened fire on a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Phoenix has a long history of mental illness but had never been violent, his ex-wife said Wednesday, a day after she helped turn him in to authorities.A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court said James Lee Carr, 68, opened fire Tuesday because he said he felt the federal officer “was harassing him."Gonzales said her ex-husband will most likely need a court-appointed attorney.
  
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• A US Army Twitch streamer said the anti-Semitic phrase '6 million wasn't enough' during a game

  16-09-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Motherboard reported a streamer for the Army National Guard Twitch channel repeated the anti-Semitic phrase "six million wasn't enough."
  
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• The US just charged a group of Chinese hackers with orchestrating 'unprecedented' cyberattacks targeting over 100 companies, government agencies, and universities

  16-09-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors didn't say which organizations were targeted, but said Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Verizon assisted the investigation.
  
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• Eyeing China, Pentagon plans larger, 'more lethal' navy

  16-09-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced Wednesday an ambitious plan to expand the US Navy with a range of unmanned and autonomous ships, submarines and aircraft to confront the growing maritime challenge from China.
  
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• Judges scrutinize suit's claims in Harvard racial bias case

  16-09-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A panel of appeals court judges on Wednesday repeatedly challenged the legal claims of a group that accuses Harvard University of intentional discrimination against Asian American students who apply to the Ivy League school.The three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston appeared skeptical of arguments made by Students for Fair Admissions, which says Harvard imposes a “racial penalty” on Asian Americans.When a lawyer for the group accused the school of racial
  
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• Twitter flags manipulated Biden video shared by Trump

  16-09-2020 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  A manipulated video of Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden shared by President Donald Trump was flagged by Twitter. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reports.
  
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• Fed promises to keep interest rates low for the next 2 years, calls on Congress to pass stimulus funding

  16-09-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Federal Reserve made a long-term commitment to keep interest rates low on Wednesday.In a press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced the Fed likely wouldn't raise interest rates from their current rock-bottom state until at least 2023. They'll remain close to zero "until the economy is far along in its recovery," Powell said — though he added that Congress should take some action to make sure that happens."Overall activity remains well below its level before the pan
  
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• 'Sigh of relief': Sally spares a Mississippi gator ranch

  16-09-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As rain and wind from Sally started reaching the Gulf Coast, the manager of a Mississippi alligator ranch was just hoping he wouldn’t have to deal with a repeat of what happened during Hurricane Katrina.“I’m thinking a sigh of relief somewhat,” said manager Tim Parker, who took over Gulf Coast Gator Ranch & Tours after Katrina.
  
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• 15 gang members indicted in drug, sex trafficking case, Maryland AG says

  16-09-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fifteen gang members were indicted in connection with "Operation Too Close for Comfort," an investigation into drug distribution and sex trafficking, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Wednesday.
  
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• Mexico's Independence Day celebrations muted by pandemic

  16-09-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico’s Sept. 16 Independence Day celebrations were muted by the coronavirus pandemic, with a small, symbolic gathering replacing the usual massive military parade Wednesday.The ceremony was dominated by the awarding of “Miguel Hidalgo” medals, the country’s highest civilian honor, to 58 doctors, nurses and health personnel involved in the treating COVID-19 patients.Independence Day marks the start of the 1810-21 struggle for freedom from Spain, and has also been celebra
  
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• Election 2020: With 48 days to go and a dozen states up for grabs the presidential race is either candidates to win – or lose

  16-09-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Analysis: With almost a dozen states in play and only 48 days of campaigning left, the race for the White House increasingly feels like a dead heat
  
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• Trump's Threat to Pull Funding From Schools Over How They Teach Slavery Is Part of a Long History of Politicizing American History Class

  16-09-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Is the point of history class to introduce young Americans to their heritage of heroes, the glories of American history?"
  
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• Poll: Sen. Susan Collins trailing challenger Sarah Gideon by 12 points in closely watched Maine race

  16-09-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters surveyed in Maine found the incumbent trailing her opponent Sara Gideon by a wide margin.
  
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• Fact check: Claim on Trump nepotism, family profiting from presidency is partly false

  16-09-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A meme lists several Trump associates that have gotten jobs and profited from his presidency. Most of it is true.
  
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• Utah officer charged with assault after dog bites Black man

  16-09-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Utah police officer was charged with aggravated assault after ordering a dog to attack a Black man who had put his hands in the air, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Jeffery Ryans was in his backyard on April 24 when police responded to a domestic dispute call. K9 officer Nickolas Pearce then told Ryans to get on the ground before kicking him in the leg, forcing him to his knees, and ordering the dog to bite Ryans, prosecutors said.
  
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• Glacier National Park may no longer live up to its name soon

  16-09-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Glacier National Park, one of America's original 10 national parks, could lose its glaciers completely within decades. What would the park look like in the next century then, without the glaciers that feed the wildlife, farms and people who depend on it?
  
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• Biden on Trump's criticism that he didn't institute a mask mandate: 'I'm not the president. He's the president.'

  16-09-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While taking questions from reporters Wednesday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden responded to President Trump’s remarks at a town hall criticizing Biden for not enacting a mask mandate. “I’m not the president. He’s the president,” Biden said.
  
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• How a Pennsylvania law could delay presidential election results for days or even weeks

  16-09-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If Pennsylvania has a repeat performance of its primary, America is in trouble. Election results in Pennsylvania’s June 2 primary took weeks to be announced. But state officials told Yahoo News they’re confident that results won’t take as long to be announced in the fall election.
  
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• Black man sues cops after being mistaken for burglar at his Wisconsin home, lawsuit says

  16-09-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “It could have easily led to another death of an unarmed black man.”
  
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• Trump says he can talk GOP into going for 'larger' virus aid

  16-09-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump parachuted into the coronavirus aid debate Wednesday, upbraiding his Republican allies for proposing too small of a relief package and encouraging both parties in Congress to go for a bigger one that would include his priority of $1,200 stimulus checks for most Americans.“I like the larger amount,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House.“Some of the Republicans disagree, but I think I can convince them to go along with that.”
  
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• Dr. Redfield testified that masks may be more effective protection against Covid-19. Here's what he said

  16-09-2020 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's own health officials continue to publicly contradict him when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic -- this time on the importance of mask wearing.
  
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• NASA mulls possible mission to Venus after recent discovery of possible life

  16-09-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help determine whether or not that planet harbors life.The U.S. space agency in February shortlisted four proposed missions that are now being reviewed by a NASA panel, two of which would involve robotic probes to Venus.One of those, called DAVINCI+, would send a probe into the Venusian atmosphere.
  
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• How did three bleeding men end up in the water in the Keys? They each had a story

  16-09-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Detectives in the Florida Keys are investigating a bizarre incident that happened Wednesday morning during which three intoxicated men were found bleeding in the water next to the docks of a local marina.
  
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• McGrath tries to turn McConnell's seniority into liability

  16-09-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrat Amy McGrath tried to turn Mitch McConnell’s Senate seniority into a liability Wednesday, accusing the Republican leader of helping to create an “inept mess” as Congress struggles to break an impasse on more coronavirus aid in a hyper-partisan environment.Speaking at a virtual event hosted by two Louisville professional groups, McGrath later acknowledged that McConnell’s long Senate career looms as her biggest challenge in trying to unseat him in the November elec
  
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• 'Don't play in floodwaters!': Alligators and 'islands of fire ants' spotted in Hurricane Sally flooding

  16-09-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Advice remains to shelter in place as you never know what’s hidden or floating in floodwaters
  
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• Uganda jail break: More than 200 prisoners escape Moroto facility

  16-09-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least two fugitives have been killed, as well as one soldier, as the security forces give chase.
  
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• Parts of Madrid 'face return to total lockdown' as coronavirus cases soar

  16-09-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Madrid has announced new coronavirus restrictions that could include the return of total lockdown in some areas. Antonio Zapatero, the deputy health minister, said zones with the "highest incidence" of the virus would go back into lockdown by the weekend, including restrictions on mobility and the potential "confinement" of citizens in their homes. "We must act as quickly as possible," he said. Spain had one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe, and hospitals in Madrid are again under intense pr
  
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• Kushner ‘very confident’ Trump's Mideast peace deals make resolution with Palestinians ‘more likely’

  16-09-2020 22:13 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Wednesday that he is "very confident" the recent Middle East peace agreements broked by President Trump between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Israel and Bahrain will make an ultimate resolution with Palestine "more likely."
  
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• Barbados to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, become a republic

  16-09-2020 22:13 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Barbados announced plans Tuesday to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state by November 2021 and transition into a republic.
  
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• 'Nowhere to go': Argentine families occupy land as pandemic stokes poverty

  16-09-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When the coronavirus pandemic hit Argentina, painter Gonzalo Esquivel could not know it marked the beginning of a personal crisis that would eventually see him living on a vacant piece of land with thousands of others evicted from their home.With his work disrupted by the virus, Esquivel, 23, was unable to pay his rent."I couldn't pay the rent any more and I ended up on the streets," Esquivel said.
  
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• This is how we should build on Mars, scientists say

  16-09-2020 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  If we make it to Mars, we're not going to be able to bring everything humankind needs to stay for an extended period of time -- or to construct colonies on the red planet.
  
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• Kayleigh McEnany: Trump administration’s strategy is to get a vaccine

  16-09-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany answers reporter questions during a briefing.
  
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• Hurricane Sally topples crane, wrecking huge piece of new Florida bridge, photos show

  16-09-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “It’s going to take a considerable amount of time to clean up from this.”
  
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• Lindsey Graham neck-and-neck with Jaime Harrison, Susan Collins 12 points behind challenger in latest poll

  16-09-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The good news keeps pouring in for Democrats looking to retake the Senate this fall.After a poll released earlier Wednesday put Democrat Mark Kelly 10 points over Sen. Martha McSally (R) in Arizona, a Quinnipiac University poll out Wednesday gave Sara Gideon a similar edge over Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.). The poll also showed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tied with his Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison, mirroring other recent polls that show a tight race in the state.Collins is a moderate s
  
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• If you think Breonna Taylor's family got too much, how much is your daughter worth?

  16-09-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As soon as the settlement was announced, people on social media came out of the woodwork to attack Breonna Taylor's mother.
  
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• US denies sending American accused of spying in Venezuela

  16-09-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A senior U.S. official on Wednesday rejected claims that the government sent an American citizen to Venezuela where he’s been charged with plotting terrorist attacks and labeled a spy.Venezuelan authorities say they captured a man identified as Matthew John Heath with a trove of photos, specialized weapons and cash.“The U.S. government did not send Mr. Heath to Venezuela,” Abrams said.
  
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• 'SNL' is getting a new Joe Biden

  16-09-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  "Saturday Night Live" has found its Joe Biden.
  
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• Jim Carrey will play Joe Biden on 'SNL'

  16-09-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  "Saturday Night Live" has found its Joe Biden.
  
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• Voter after asking Trump question: I broke down and cried

  16-09-2020 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Ellesia Blaque, who lives with the the chronic medical conditions sarcoidosis and neurosarcoidosis, asked President Donald Trump about his healthcare plan at an ABC town hall. She tells CNN's Brianna Keilar about the experience and how she reacted to Trump's answer.
  
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• Maine wedding linked to deaths of 7 people who didn't attend

  16-09-2020 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Anyone thinking a vaccine will quickly end the coronavirus pandemic shouldn't get their hopes up. Instead, they should wear a mask -- which is probably even more effective, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
  
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• Scientists protest as Trump picks climate change skeptic for key NOAA post

  16-09-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has tapped a climate skeptic to help run the federal agency charged with overseeing the government’s research on climate change.
  
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• A boat with $825,000 of cocaine got intercepted on the Miami River, Coast Guard says

  16-09-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Coast Guard said it thought the people operating La Temperance on the Miami River might not have the proper credentials for doing so. What they say they found Monday would make the boat’s name, meaning moderation in pleasures, seem like an inside joke.
  
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• White House press secretary mocks CNN reporter's basic question about Trump's healthcare plan and tells her to 'come work here at the White House' if she wants information

  16-09-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kayleigh McEnany said "a wide array" of White House officials and "multiple stakeholders" were working on a healthcare plan Trump said was "ready."
  
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• Polls: Gideon leads Collins in Maine, McConnell up big in Kentucky

  16-09-2020 21:12 via politico.com
  
  A third Quinnipiac University poll shows a tied race in South Carolina, where GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham is seeking reelection.
  
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