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• Editorial: Bernie Sanders changed the Democratic Party for the better. Now it's his job to help defeat Trump

  08-04-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sanders leaves the presidential race with some major accomplishments.
  
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• Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 8 points in new poll; majority believe US is in a recession

  08-04-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The poll found Biden is the top choice among 49% of registered voters and Trump the top choice of 41%. Biden is boosted by self-identified independent voters.
  
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• Biden campaign assembling VP selection committee

  08-04-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democrat nominee, told donors Wednesday afternoon that his campaign is putting together a team to help pick his running mate. 
  
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• Sanders quits Democratic race for president, Biden is party's apparent nominee

  08-04-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The senator's presidential bid got off to a strong start but took a turn in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday. His campaign never recovered.
  
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• The White House is reportedly developing a plan to get back to 'normality'

  08-04-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, told Democratic lawmakers during a phone call Wednesday that the Trump administration is developing a framework for getting the United States back into a state of "normality" in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Politico reports.Fauci didn't provide any possible timeline, but he did say the White House will likely issue some guidance in the coming days about transitioning society out of lockdown
  
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• Polls: Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, trust Fauci

  08-04-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Majorities on both sides of the aisle said they were satisfied with the information from Dr. Anthony Fauci.
  
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• Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler to Liquidate, Convert Stock Shares

  08-04-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Senator Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday she and her husband are liquidating their investment portfolio following criticism of their sales and purchases of millions of dollars worth of stocks amid the coronavirus outbreak.The Georgia Republican, who is running to keep her Senate seat in a Nov. 3 nonpartisan primary, announced in a Wall Street Journal opinion-page article that the couple’s stock holdings will be converted to mutual funds and exchange-traded funds to be controlle
  
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• Trump grants ventilators to Colorado 'at the request' of its GOP senator — a week after its Democratic governor begged for them

  08-04-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colorado's Democratic Gov. Jared Polis made it clear his state was in desperate need of ventilators.In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence sent March 28, Polis asked for 10,000 ventilators and other medical supplies, cc'ing his state's Democratic and Republican senators. But when President Trump announced Wednesday that Colorado was getting 100 ventilators, he said it was at the request of Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.).> Will be immediately sending 100 Ventilators to Colorado at the request o
  
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• Countries in Asia are facing new waves of coronavirus infections after lockdowns lift. The same could happen in the rest of the world.

  08-04-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lift lockdown, get a new wave of cases, shut down again: "What happened in Wuhan could happen repeatedly to a city," one epidemiologist said.
  
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• Brazil turns to local industry to build ventilators as China orders fall through

  08-04-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil's health minister said on Wednesday that the country's attempts to purchase thousands of ventilators from China to fight the coronavirus epidemic fell through and the government is now looking to Brazilian companies to build the devices."Practically all our purchases of equipment in China are not being confirmed," Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said at a news conference.An attempt to buy 15,000 ventilators in China failed and Brazil was making a new bid, he said, but the outcome is uncer
  
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• Texas teen accused of threatening to spread coronavirus is charged

  08-04-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Maradiaga claimed in a series of Snapchat videos to have tested positive and threatened to willfully spread COVID-19, according to police.
  
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• Here's what needs to happen for America to return to "normal"

  08-04-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. — and the world — has a long way to go before life begins to resemble the pre-coronavirus era.
  
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• Portugal suspends water, electricity shutoffs and releases some prisoners amid coronavirus outbreak

  08-04-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Portugal's parliament temporarily suspended electricity, water and gas shutoffs and granted partial pardon to some of its prisoners on Wednesday as the country moved to contain the economic and social damage of the coronavirus outbreak.Until a month after the end of the state of emergency, called on March 18 to prevent the spread of coronavirus and extended last week to at least April 17, electricity, water, and gas cannot be shut off, easing pressure on Portuguese families struggling to pay the
  
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• The Marine Corps Wants to Transform JLTVs into Aircraft-Killing Trucks

  08-04-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Marine Corps Systems Command recently invited defense firms to submit ideas for creating the Direct Fire Defeat System.
  
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• White Supremacist Groups are Recruiting With Help From Coronavirus – and a Popular Messaging App

  08-04-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As COVID-19 spreads around the world, white supremacist groups are seizing onto it to recruit and spread misinformation
  
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• Body of Gideon McKean, great-grandson of RFK, found after 5 days

  08-04-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The body of his mother, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, was recovered two days earlier.
  
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• Wisconsin worried about spike in virus cases due to election

  08-04-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The decision toforge ahead with Wisconsin's electionamid a pandemic has stirred fears about a possible spike in the state's coronavirus cases in the face of stay-at-home orders and efforts to limit contact with others.Public health experts, elected officials, poll workers and many voters pushed to delay the election.After the Republican-controlled Legislature refused to cancel in-person voting, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order to do so.
  
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• From fine to flailing - rapid health declines in COVID-19 patients jar doctors, nurses

  08-04-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Patients "look fine, feel fine, then you turn around and they're unresponsive," said Diana Torres, a nurse at MountSinai Hospital in New York, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, where the virus has infected more than 415,000 people.It isn’t just elderly or patients with underlying health conditions who can be fine one minute and at death's door the next.It can happen for the young and healthy, too, health professionals told Reuters.
  
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• Police: Body of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's grandson found

  08-04-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities recovered the body of a grandson of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Wednesday, two days after the body of the boy's mother was found in the water after a canoeing accident.The body of 8-year-old Gideon McKean was found in roughly 25 feet (8 meters) of water more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) south of his grandmother's residence in Shady Side, Maryland, where he and his mother had launched the canoe, according to a news release from the state Natural Resources Poli
  
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• Wisconsin's pandemic election puts focus on state's court

  08-04-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anyone needing proof of the power and significance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court can look no further than the lines of mask-wearing voters that stretched for hours in Milwaukee during an election held despite a stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus pandemic.The fact that Wisconsin went forward when other states delayed their elections, and that many voters were willing to endure long waits to cast ballots, reflects the hotly disputed role the court has taken in a state with outsize impo
  
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• New Yahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll shows Americans turning against Trump

  08-04-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The new survey found that Americans increasingly blame Trump for the vast scale of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Doctor's death highlights limits of coronavirus death count

  08-04-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus bore down on New York, Dr. Doug Bass' family begged him to work from home.“He said he was on the front lines and they needed him,” his brother, Jonathan Bass, told The Associated Press.It happened so quickly he was never tested for COVID-19, but his brother believes he was among the hundreds of undiagnosed cases that, for weeks, have been excluded from the official coronavirus death toll.
  
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• Bernie Sanders reportedly spoke to Biden and Obama before ending his 2020 run

  08-04-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had made a few phone calls to the last administration before making his big dropout decision.Sanders suspended his 2020 run on Wednesday, saying his "path toward victory is virtually impossible" but pledging to stay on primary ballots through the Democratic National Convention to gain influence in the party. And shortly after making that announcement, Sanders reportedly made a call to Joe Biden, who he left as the presumptive Democratic nominee, CBS News reports.>
  
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• Outcry over racial data grows as virus slams black Americans

  08-04-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus tightens its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population — black Americans.Democratic lawmakers and community leaders in cities hard-hit by the pandemic have been sounding the alarm over what they see as a disturbing trend of the virus killing African Americans at a higher rate, along with a lack of overall information about the race of victims as the nation’s death toll mounts.Among the cities wh
  
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• At least 100 American Airlines flight attendants have contracted the coronavirus. Some are sounding the alarm over shortages of personal protective equipment.

  08-04-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some American Airlines flight attendants who spoke with Business Insider said gloves and disinfectant are not always available.
  
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• Truck drivers are quietly ruling America's highways as shelter-in-place orders force millions to stay home

  08-04-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Truck drivers are sincerely hoping you'll keep working from home after the coronavirus pandemic is over, because their commutes are better than ever.
  
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• Accenture Acquires Critical Infrastructure Protection Firm Revolutionary Security

  08-04-2020 21:33
  Accenture Expands OT Security Capabilities With Acquisition of Philadelphia-based Revolution Security
  Consulting giant Accenture announced this week that it has acquired critical infrastructure protection firm Revolutionary Security for an undisclosed sum. 
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• A timeline of Trump's missed opportunities on coronavirus

  08-04-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the deadly coronavirus outbreak rapidly spread across America in February and March, President Trump repeatedly asserted that “nobody could have predicted something like this.” But a review of government records shows that repeated warnings were issued to the White House and went unheeded.
  
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• WHO urges virus unity after Trump attack

  08-04-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the WHO prepares to mark 100 days on Thursday since it was first notified of the outbreak in China, director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hit back at accusations that it had been too close to Beijing.The UN's health agency has faced criticism in the past both for overreacting and for moving too slowly in fighting epidemics, but it has rarely faced as much scrutiny as with the COVID-19 pandemic.Trump piled in on Tuesday, accusing the WHO having "called it wrong" and months too late, whil
  
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• Rep. Banks Calls on Barr, Pompeo to Bring International Criminal Court Case against China over Coronavirus Coverup

  08-04-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representative Jim Banks (R., Ind.) is calling on the State Department and Department of Justice to bring a case against China to the United Nations International Court of Justice for damages stemming from the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, joining the growing number of lawmakers who want to see China held responsible.“If China’s leaders hadn’t become embarrassed by the outbreak and tried to cover up its spread, the world may have had a better chance to prepare for this or even co
  
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• DoD Considers Stop-Loss Order to Maintain Troop Levels During Pandemic

  08-04-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon is looking at the possibility of "stop-loss" orders to aid the fight against the coronavirus.
  
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• Photos show thousands packing into cars, planes, and trains in a rush to get out of Wuhan as China lifts the coronavirus lockdown

  08-04-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China ended the near-11-week lockdown of the city of Wuhan at midnight on Wednesday, sending floods of people out of the city.
  
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• U.S. to seize exports of masks and gloves amid coronavirus crisis

  08-04-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States will seize exports of key protective medical gear until it determines whether the equipment should be kept in the country to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, two federal agencies announced on Wednesday.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will hold exports of respirators, surgical masks and surgical gloves, according to a joint announcement made with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.FEMA will then determine if the equipment should be returned for use in the
  
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• Coronavirus was spreading in NYC in February, came via Europe

  08-04-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The novel coronavirus began spreading in New York City in February, before widespread testing began, and the strain so far identified in local samples came from Europe, a scientist said Wednesday.Adriana Heguy, a geneticist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who led the research, told AFP that tracing back the virus' chain of transmission will help policy makers make better informed social interventions in the future."It's very interesting that so far, the majority seem to be coming from Europe,
  
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• Adam Schiff says Intelligence Committee may conduct 'Zoom hearings' during coronavirus pandemic

  08-04-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says he is considering using the teleconferencing software Zoom to hold hearings while social distancing restrictions remain in place.
  
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• Vulnerabilities in B&R Automation Software Facilitate Attacks on ICS Networks

  08-04-2020 20:53
  Several vulnerabilities found by researchers in B&R Automation’s Automation Studio software make it easier for malicious actors to launch attacks inside operational technology (OT) networks. The vendor has started releasing patches.
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• Coronavirus: US records highest death toll in single day

  08-04-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 1,800 deaths were recorded on Tuesday including that of influential folk singer John Prine.
  
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• Sanders quitting Democratic race for president, Biden to be party's apparent nominee

  08-04-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Vermont senator's presidential bid got off to a strong start but took a turn south in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday. His campaign never recovered
  
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• New York hits new coronavirus peak but curve flattening

  08-04-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York recorded a new single-day high for coronavirus deaths on Wednesday but Governor Andrew Cuomo said the epidemic appeared to be stabilizing.Cuomo said 779 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the total death toll in New York state from COVID-19 to 6,268.New York is bearing the brunt of America's deadly coronavirus pandemic, accounting for around half the number of deaths across the country.
  
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• Wawa sent a 53-foot refrigerated truck to store bodies of people who died of COVID-19 in New Jersey, as morgues and funeral homes struggle to keep up with the rising death toll

  08-04-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wawa provided a 53-foot refrigerated truck to the state of New Jersey to store the bodies of people who have died of COVID-19.
  
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• CNN Anchor Says Bernie ‘Didn’t Say Anything Nice’ About Biden—Minutes After Sanders Did Just That

  08-04-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Minutes after Bernie Sanders announced the suspension of his presidential campaign and congratulated his primary rival Joe Biden, saying he would “work with” the ex-veep going forward, CNN anchor John King claimed Sanders “didn’t say anything nice” about Biden or offer to “work with him.”In a live-streamed message to supporters on Wednesday, which was carried by CNN, Sanders noted that Biden had an overwhelming delegate lead and therefore is the presumpt
  
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• Charlotte Figi, the girl who spurred a cannabis movement that changed laws across the world, dies at 13 after being treated as 'a likely COVID-19 case'

  08-04-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Charlotte Figi, who had epilepsy, and her parents worked with the Stanley brothers to champion the therapeutic uses of CBD in treating seizures.
  
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• Trump Slammed the WHO Over Coronavirus. He's Not Alone.

  08-04-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against the World Health Organization on Tuesday, accusing it of acting too slowly to sound the alarm about the coronavirus. It was not the first time in this pandemic that the global health body has faced such criticism.Government officials, health experts and analysts have in recent weeks raised concerns about how the organization has responded to the outbreak.In Japan, Taro Aso, the deputy prime minister and finance minister, recently noted that some
  
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• Bernie Sanders didn't lose because his ideas were unpopular

  08-04-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For a few weeks, it seemed as though Bernie Sanders was really going to win the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. He won the most votes in all three of the first states, and was leading national polls. Opinion surveys showed that he was broadly popular among the Democratic electorate, and majorities of primary voters supported his signature ideas like Medicare-for-all.But in a space of about three days, it all went sideways. Joe Biden won a smashing victory in South Carolina, all the other m
  
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• Trump news: Bernie Sanders ends campaign as president slams Democrats and says coronavirus must be 'quickly forgotten'

  08-04-2020 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has hit back at Donald Trump after he threatened to stop US funding to the body as he seeks a scapegoat for the disaster wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, saying the WHO had "missed the call" -- despite himself ignoring a memo from trade adviser Peter Navarro in February warning of the coming storm.Mr Trump doubled down on his attacks of the WHO during the White House press briefing on Wednesday, saying his administering would "study" if it should pull fund
  
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• Trump’s Fox News Cabinet Tells Him the Coronavirus Crisis Is Over

  08-04-2020 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Throughout the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump’s decisions and stances have seemingly been influenced by the unofficial advisers he treasures most: Fox News primetime hosts.After downplaying for weeks the threat of the virus, just as many on Fox News did the same, the president began taking it seriously last month after Tucker Carlson personally confronted him before delivering an on-air monologue calling for action. Elsewhere, Fox stars have been the primary driving f
  
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• West Virginia Officials Urge State to Quash Gambling on Politics

  08-04-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- One day after FanDuel Inc. briefly began taking bets on the 2020 presidential election, citing permission from the West Virginia Lottery, state officials condemned the idea.West Virginia Governor Jim Justice said on a radio show that he disapproved of allowing people to wager on elections. Secretary of State Mac Warner said in a statement that it was a “terrible idea.”“Gambling on elections has been illegal in West Virginia since 1868,” Warner said. “
  
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• Saudi officials announce Yemen cease-fire amid pandemic

  08-04-2020 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen announced Wednesday that its forces would begin a cease-fire starting Thursday, a step that could pave the way for the first direct peace talks between the two sides that have been at war for more than five years.In a statement carried by Saudi Arabia's official state news agency, a Saudi military spokesman, Col. Turki al-Malki, said that the ceasefire would last two weeks and that it comes in response to U.N. calls to ha
  
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• Modly's Final Message to the Fleet: 'I Lost Situational Awareness'

  08-04-2020 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thomas Modly, who resigned from his position on Tuesday, told sailors and Marines they are justified in being angry with him.
  
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• A New York nurse laments his coronavirus patient's last words before intubation: 'Who's going to pay for it?'

  08-04-2020 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I've never seen what I've been seeing lately with the speed, intensity, and spread of the virus itself," Derrick Smith said.
  
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