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• Sen. Marsha Blackburn on key Senate races in the 2020 election

  04-10-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn joins 'Fox Report' to discuss key Senate races in the 2020 election and the recent string of positive COVID-19 cases stemming from the White House.
  
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• Fact check: False claim that Trump blamed Navajo Nation for contracting COVID-19 started as satire

  04-10-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The false claim that President Trump blamed the vice president of the Navajo Nation for giving him COVID-19 originates from a satirical website.
  
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• Mormon president calls on members to help end racism

  04-10-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' president issued another plea for members to help end racism, saying Sunday at the faith’s signature conference that God loves people of all races equally and that it pains him to see Black people suffer prejudice.Russell M. Nelson's comments followed similar speeches by other top leaders Saturday at the conference that comes as many members live through a reckoning over racial injustice, especially in the U.S. following the May police killi
  
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• Pelosi says she's not being briefed on Trump's health

  04-10-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said she has not been briefed on President Donald Trump's health since his Covid-19 diagnosis despite her position as second in the presidential line of succession behind Vice President Mike Pence.
  
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• Return of Covid to New York deals blow to hopes of localised immunity

  04-10-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York is reporting “concerning” signs of a coronavirus resurgence, which would dash hopes that its high rate of immunity would spare it from a second wave. The city, which had been the epicentre of the US’s Covid-19 outbreak before it was hailed as a model of containment, was one of the few success stories in a country struggling to get the pandemic under control. However, it is now seeing the most dramatic uptick in daily cases since June. While numbers in southern and west
  
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• Trump, 15 others positive for COVID: A running list of those being tested and their results

  04-10-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Questions remain on who the president has been in contact with in the days prior to his positive COVID-19 test.
  
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• Missouri governor returns to office after battling COVID-19

  04-10-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Sunday he has been cleared to return to the office after battling the coronavirus.Parson said on his Facebook page Sunday that he and his wife, Teresa Paulson, had both been cleared by doctors to return to work from their home in Bolivar in southwestern Missouri.Missouri continues to have one of the highest rates of positive cases of the virus in the nation.
  
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• Biden tests negative for COVID-19, reminds folks to 'wear a mask' after being mocked by Trump for mask at debate

  04-10-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "This is not a matter of politics," Biden said. "It’s a bracing reminder for all of us that we have to take this virus seriously It’s not going away automatically."
  
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• Drug Trump is taking only works on serious Covid-19 cases, says professor who led Oxford trial

  04-10-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A British professor who led the trial of the new drug that Donald Trump is taking has said it only works best on serious cases of Covid-19, adding to fears over the seriousness of the President's illness. Mr Trump will remain on dexamethasone "for the time being" after first taking the steroid on Saturday, his medical team said on Sunday night. The drug, which has been described as "groundbreaking", is widely used to reduce inflammation and has been found to reduce a patient's risk of death from
  
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• Cities under fire as Armenia-Azerbaijan fighting intensifies

  04-10-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Armenian and Azerbaijani forces exchanged heavy rocket and artillery fire as fighting intensified over Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, with the breakaway region's capital and Azerbaijan's second-largest city hit.
  
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• Newly found grave of Anglo-Saxon warlord could rewrite history of post-Roman Britain

  04-10-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The grave of an Anglo-Saxon warlord discovered by a metal detectorist could rewrite the history of post-Roman Britain, archeologists have said. The ‘Marlow Warlord’ has been found buried on a hilltop above the Thames valley alongside highly decorated spears, shears, dress fittings and other paraphernalia. The six-foot soldier, who was aged between 40 and 50 when he was buried, is proof that there was a “powerful tribe in the area”, according to researchers at the Universi
  
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• Toomey won't run for U.S. Senate again, source says

  04-10-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania will not seek re-election in 2022, according to a person with direct knowledge of Toomey's plans.Also, Toomey will not run for governor in 2022, when the seat becomes open, said the person, who did not want to be named divulging information from private conversations before Toomey announces it publicly.Toomey, who is serving his second term in the presidential battleground state, will make the announcement Monday, the person said.
  
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• Toomey won't run for Senate again, or governor, source says

  04-10-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a fiercely anti-tax and anti-regulation lawmaker who never entirely warmed to President Donald Trump, will not seek re-election in 2022, according to a person with direct knowledge of Toomey's plans.Toomey, who is serving his second term in the presidential battleground state, will make the announcement Monday, the person said.A spokesperson at Toomey's Senate office declined comment Sunday when asked whether the senator will announce that he is n
  
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• Trump, 14 others positive for COVID: A running list of those being tested and their results

  04-10-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Questions remain on who the president has been in contact with in the days prior to his positive COVID-19 test.
  
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• Fears for foreign exchange trips as peers urge Government to scrap plans to force all children from Europe to carry passports

  04-10-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fears have been expressed for foreign exchange trips as peers urge the Government to scrap plans that would force all children from Europe to carry passports after Brexit is completed. The Government plans to end the use of European ID cards as proof of identity for travel when the transition period ends on December 31. Promised by the Conservative Party in December last year before Boris Johnson’s landslide general election win, the plan is now set to be codified as part of the Immigratio
  
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• NYC mayor seeks to lockdown coronavirus hotspots

  04-10-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: "Today, unfortunately, is not a day for celebration. Today is a more difficult day."Amid growing clusters of coronavirus cases in sever​al New York City neighborhoods, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday he plans to shut non-essential businesses as well as schools in some of those hard-hit areas starting Wednesday."It pains me to be putting forward this approach that we'll need but in some parts of our city, in Brooklyn and Queens, we're having an extrao
  
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• Klobuchar denies claims that Democrats are 'using' Senate coronavirus outbreak to delay SCOTUS confirmation hearing

  04-10-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It's not a matter of using it," Klobuchar said of the COVID outbreak among key Republicans in an interview Sunday. "It happened."
  
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• White House identified 206 people who attended Trump events in Bedminster, New Jersey: officials

  04-10-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House has given New Jersey officials the names of more than 200 people who attended events around President Donald Trump's fundraising trip to Bedminster on Thursday, hours before he tested positive for COVID-19, New Jersey officials said."The White House supplied to NJ officials the names of at least 206 individuals who attended the events," the New Jersey Department of Health said on Twitter.Officials are also interviewing staff at Trump's golf resort in Bedminster and making health
  
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• Irish health chiefs recommend return to full lockdown: sources

  04-10-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ireland's health chiefs recommended to the government on Sunday that the country enter a second nationwide lockdown for four weeks in a surprise move that cabinet will discuss on Monday, two government sources said.Ireland's National Public Health Emergency Team recommended a leap to the highest level of COVID-19 restrictions, Level 5, from current Level 2 controls in 24 of Ireland's 26 counties and stricter Level 3 measures in Dublin and Donegal.The government has almost entirely adopted their
  
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• Pandemic sharpens Senate struggle over Trump's high-court nominee

  04-10-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Donald Trump is intent on getting his recent Supreme Court nominee confirmed before the November 3 presidential election, the eruption of Covid-19 into the Senate and the innermost circles of the White House has complicated the calendar.
  
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• Karabakh cathedral repurposed as bomb shelter

  04-10-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A candle lights the strained faces of civilians huddled in the basement of Holy Mother of God cathedral in Nagorno-Karabakh's main city Stepanakert, where they have sought refuge from fighting that erupted a week ago over the disputed region.
  
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• 3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus

  04-10-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide.Announcing the prize, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio's work identified a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn't be explained by the previously discovered hepatitis A and B viruses.“Thanks to their discovery, highly sensit
  
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• Neighborhoods across New York City face another shutdown due to high coronavirus infection rates: mayor

  04-10-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The shutdowns might last anywhere between two and four weeks, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press conference Sunday.
  
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• Tottenham Hotspur puts six past Manchester United at Old Trafford

  04-10-2020 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  Manchester United could hardly have hoped for a better opening three minutes against Tottenham Hotspur, but what seemed like the perfect start quickly unraveled into a nightmare.
  
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• German demonstrators protest coronavirus restrictions, fail to form human chain around lake

  04-10-2020 21:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Both protesters and counter-protesters gathered, totaling as many as 11,000
  
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• Trump furious at chief of staff for contradicting White House physician, sources say

  04-10-2020 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is furious with chief of staff Mark Meadows after the top West Wing official contradicted the White House physician's assessment Saturday of the President's health, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN on Sunday.
  
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• 'Human-sized' spider web found in Missouri forest

  04-10-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A giant spider web was discovered by the Missouri Department of Conservation's Francis Skalicky off a trail near Springfield
  
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• Who in Trump's inner circle has tested positive for coronavirus?

  04-10-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Since the president announced on Friday he has Covid-19, aides, campaign staff and senators have also tested positive Donald Trump announced he had tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, shortly after reports emerged that his close aide Hope Hicks had contracted the illness.Since then, several member of the president’s inner circle have tested positive.It is not known where Trump contracted the virus. After being exposed, it can take several days for the virus to be detected by a test. Pe
  
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• Claudia Conway announces coronavirus diagnosis on TikTok

  04-10-2020 21:25 via nydailynews.com
  Claudia Conway, the daughter of former White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, revealed on TikTok Sunday that she has coronavirus. "Hey guys currently dying of covid," Conway captioned a video on the social media platform. Kellyanne Conway announced she tested positive for coronavirus Friday night and was experiencing some symptoms including a "mild (light cough) and I'm feeling fine." Prior to ...
  
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• What we know about Sean Conley, Trump's doctor and the first D.O. to serve as physician to the president

  04-10-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sean Conley, DO, just delivered a report that raised more questions than it answered about Trump's COVID-19 illness. Here's what to know about Conley.
  
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• Machete-wielding man in gorilla suit threatens to blow up apartment building, ND cops say

  04-10-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  He was arrested and charged with terrorizing, police say.
  
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• Leaders spar over missile attack claims in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

  04-10-2020 21:06 via cnn.com
  
  The president of the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region warned citizens in large cities of Azerbaijan Sunday to leave to avoid "inevitable loss" after he said Azerbaijan targeted civilians in the region's main city of Stepanakert the last couple of days.
  
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• One month out, battered Trump campaign faces big challenges

  04-10-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s long-hidden tax returns leaked out.Trump's reelection team, battered on all sides, now enters the final month of the campaign grappling with deficits in the polls, a shortage of cash and a candidate who is at least temporarily sidelined.The crises, many of Trump's own making, have come so quickly that they are hard to keep straight.
  
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• Search underway for murder hornet nest in Washington state

  04-10-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Agricultural officials in Washington state said Friday they're trying to find and destroy a nest of Asian giant hornets — also known as murder hornets.
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett and her husband tested positive for coronavirus this summer, according to reports

  04-10-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett recovered from coronavirus this late summer, sources told the Washington Post and CNN.
  
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• Gay men take over Proud Boys hashtag on Twitter

  04-10-2020 20:46 via nydailynews.com
  Gay men reclaimed the label "proud" over the weekend, taking over the Twitter hashtag from the far-right Proud Boys who have been causing havoc and violence in the Pacific Northwest. The hashtag, trending all weekend, was not populated by hate-filled messages and, since President Trump refused to condemn white supremacists during Tuesday's debate, calls to "stand by," but rather with joyous ...
  
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• Trump's doctors say the president is getting better. But they also started him on a steroid usually reserved for patients with 'severe and critical COVID-19'

  04-10-2020 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House physicians announced the president is feeling well. But Trump is also taking dexamethasone, a steroid given to critical COVID-19 patients.
  
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• California's Sweeping Wildfires Have Now Burned Through More Than 4 Million Acres

  04-10-2020 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 8,200 wildfires have led to 31 deaths and the destruction of more than 8,400 structures in 2020, according to Cal Fire
  
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• Experts believe the White House relied too heavily on testing for coronavirus mitigation

  04-10-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House likely relied too heavily on testing as a coronavirus mitigation tool, experts said Sunday.Boston University's Dr. Nahid Bhadelia appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and told host Chuck Todd that when it comes to this pandemic "no one thing is a silver bullet" even a "pillar" like testing, which is a "diagnostic" tool. "You need to follow that up by having all those additional measures" like mask-wearing and social distancing — which reports have indicated were not taken as se
  
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• Why Trump's steroid treatment might be a 'red flag' about his condition

  04-10-2020 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said the treatment started on Saturday.
  
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• Regal Cinemas may shut down theaters across the US this week

  04-10-2020 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  Cineworld Group, the owner of Regal Cinemas, said it is considering temporarily closing its theaters "but a final decision has not yet been reached."
  
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• 'It's very humbling': Pandemic increasing food insecurity

  04-10-2020 20:11 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Natasha Chen speaks to people in line for a food drive near Atlanta about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Gov. Cuomo says NY to start 'direct enforcement' in hot spot ZIP codes

  04-10-2020 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Direct enforcement" of businesses in the high-risk cluster areas will begin Monday by New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday during his teleconference briefing.
  
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• ‘I can’t wait to vote.’ Miami immigrants become U.S. citizens in time to pick a president

  04-10-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Carlos Aybar stood inside the Miami immigration office last Friday, holding up his right hand and recitingthe words of the citizenship oath through a face mask, the Dominican native felt a big wave of relief.
  
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• Biden surges to 14-point lead over Trump after caustic first debate, poll finds

  04-10-2020 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden's lead in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal surpassed his previous high of 11 percentage points in July.
  
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• New York City mayor seeks to lock down coronavirus hotspots starting Wednesday

  04-10-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, to contain the spread of COVID-19 in what was once the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, said on Sunday he is moving to shut non-essential businesses as well as schools in nine neighborhoods identified as coronavirus clusters, starting on Wednesday.Seeking state approval for the lockdown, de Blasio said it would affect nine ZIP codes where coronavirus positivity rates have spiked, sometimes as the result of failure to social distance and wear face masks.New York
  
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• Over 100,000 march in Belarus against authoritarian leader

  04-10-2020 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 100,000 people marched in Belarus' capital on Sunday to protest against the country's authoritarian leader, who won his sixth term in office in an election widely seen as rigged.The demonstrators demanded the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko, and freedom for political prisoners.Police used water cannons in an attempt to disperse the crowds, but the protesters remained undeterred.
  
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• Gottlieb says those around Trump "not in the clear" for COVID-19

  04-10-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gottlieb said there are likely to be more coronavirus cases in the coming days.
  
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• Donald Trump Supporters Are Undaunted By His COVID-19 Diagnosis

  04-10-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The President's fans have interpreted his diagnosis as a reinforcement of what they already believe about Trump and COVID
  
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• 'People drove ten hours to see him' - Donald Trump devotees gather outside his treatment centre

  04-10-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jennifer Gilde has brought a camp chair to Walter Reed hospital, where Donald Trump is being treated for coronavirus, so that she can spend all Sunday showing her support for the US president. Despite living just 40 minutes away, Ms Gilde has been here, perched in her camp chair, since Saturday afternoon to share her well wishes for Mr Trump, along with dozens of other supporters. “It was cold overnight, but we wanted to be here,” she told The Daily Telegraph, adding that another fri
  
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