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• Global coronavirus deaths top half a million

  28-06-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The death toll from COVID-19 reached half a million people on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in some countries even as other regions are still grappling with the first wave.The respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus has been particularly dangerous for the elderly, although other adults and children are also among the 500,000 fatalities and more than 10 million reported cases.While the overall rate of death has
  
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• Facebook, social media under more pressure from brands over hate speech

  28-06-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Unilever, Coca-Cola, Hershey, Starbucks and Honda say they are pausing advertising on social media platforms including Facebook over hate speech.
  
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• Four men were charged for trying to tear down a statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House

  28-06-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jackson owned at least 95 slaves at his Tennessee plantation and brought some of them with him to the White House.
  
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• Polish president, liberal rival face tight run-off

  28-06-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Polish President Andrzej Duda is set for a tight run-off against Warsaw's liberal mayor next month after Sunday's inconclusive first-round vote, leaving the fate of the populist right-wing government in the balance.Duda, who is backed by the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, is expected to come out on top in the first-round vote with 41.8 percent, according to an exit poll by Ipsos.Rafal Trzaskowski, who has promised to heal rifts with the European Union, is set to come second with 30.4 per
  
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• Don't blame Sharia for Islamic extremism -- blame colonialism

  28-06-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Warning that Islamic extremists want to impose fundamentalist religious rule in American communities, right-wing lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have tried banning Sharia, an Arabic term often understood to mean Islamic law. These political debates – which cite terrorism and political violence in the Middle East to argue that Islam is incompatible with modern society – reinforce stereotypes that the Muslim world is uncivilized. They also reflect ignorance of Sharia, which is not a
  
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• Minneapolis police chief, mayor launching policy changes

  28-06-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Minneapolis police chief and mayor on Sunday began their push for sweeping policy changes with a new rule that prevents officers involved in using deadly force from reviewing body camera footage before completing an initial police report.The new standards come after a proposal by the Minneapolis City Council to dismantle the police force following the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed Black man who died after a white police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly eight mi
  
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• Louisville: Man in custody after shooting at Breonna Taylor protest

  28-06-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A shooting at a Louisville protest over Breonna Taylor left one man dead and a suspect in hospital.
  
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• The zoo from 'Tiger King' is being investigated after photos appear to show lions infested with maggots and flies

  28-06-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The photos taken at the Oklahoma zoo were made public by the animal rights campaign group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
  
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• New Yorkers who travel to Florida, Texas, and other states with high COVID-19 infection rates will lose paid sick leave benefits

  28-06-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and Texas all currently have positive test rates higher than 10%.
  
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• California orders bars in LA, other counties to close due to COVID surge

  28-06-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The order from the state's governor comes as the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 500,000 on Sunday night.
  
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• Spanish village makes its own rainbow after council's gay pride flag banned

  28-06-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When police ordered a local mayor in southern Spain to take down a rainbow flag put up to celebrate gay pride on Friday because it was illegal, more than 300 households in the village rallied to the cause and flew their own flags.By the time gay pride celebrations took place in Spain on Sunday, the Andalusian village of Villanueva de Algaidas near Malaga was awash with flags hanging from balconies, windows and even a bar in solidarity.Juan Civico, Socialist mayor of the village of 4,000 inhabita
  
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• Louisville shooting: At least one person killed in Jefferson Square Park where Black Lives Matter protests held

  28-06-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People have been gathering in the downtown park to protest Breonna Taylor's death and police brutality.
  
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• Trump struggles as furor grows over reported Russian bounty offer to kill U.S. troops

  28-06-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House says Trump wasn't briefed on intelligence about Russian offer of bounty payments. If so, that shows negligence, some Republicans say.
  
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• Ship Hunters: The Air Force Wants to Sink Your 'Battleship'

  28-06-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Subsonic or supersonic, ship-hunting bombers appear set to play a major role in the naval warfare capabilities of China, Russia, and the United States into the mid-twenty-first century.
  
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• Republican senator sees effort this week to revive police reform debate in U.S. Congress

  28-06-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. lawmakers will try this week to revive efforts to enact police reform legislation in Congress, a Republican senator said on Sunday, after moves to address police misconduct following the death of George Floyd deteriorated into partisan bickering.Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate and author of a Republican reform bill that Democrats blocked last week, said he will meet in coming days with lawmakers who crafted sweeping Democratic legislation that passed the House of
  
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• Headteachers may refuse to fine parents who keep children at home in September

  28-06-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Headteachers have threatened to undermine the Government's plan to reopen schools in September by refusing to punish parents who keep their children at home. Teaching unions said many would use a loophole in the law to avoid levying fines on parents failing to send their children to classes. Some headteachers, however, urged the Government to tighten the rules to ensure that parents without a valid excuse are fined for the non-attendance of their children. It comes amid widespread fears that con
  
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• Corrupt Chicago Police Sgt. Xavier Elizondo Gets More Than 7 Years In Prison For Lying To Get Warrants, Stealing Cash And Drugs

  28-06-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge has sentenced corrupt Chicago Police Sgt. Xavier Elizondo to 87 months in prison, after the officer and his partner were convicted last year of lying to judges to obtain search warrants, and then stealing cash and drugs from the properties they searched.
  
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• Fact check: CDC did not add flu and pneumonia cases to its COVID-19 death count

  28-06-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Facebook post falsely claimed the CDC admitted adding influenza and pneumonia deaths to its COVID-19 death count.
  
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• New Yorkers who visit states with high COVID-19 infection rates will be ineligible for sick leave

  28-06-2020 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an order Saturday stripping paid sick leave for New Yorkers who voluntarily travel to high-risk states after June 25.
  
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• Canadian detainee's wife 'disappointed' Trudeau rules out swap with China

  28-06-2020 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The wife of one of two Canadians imprisoned in China said Sunday she is "disappointed" by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's refusal to consider a swap for a detained Huawei executive facing extradition to the United States.Trudeau firmly rejected appeals that he intervene in the extradition proceedings against Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, in order to win the release of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
  
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• Robert Jenrick under fresh pressure after whistleblower claims he ignored pleas to block Westferry project

  28-06-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Robert Jenrick has found himself under fresh pressure, after a whistleblower claimed he ignored pleas from senior officials to block the controversial Westferry printworks project. The Housing Secretary reportedly overruled objections from civil servants and lawyers to greenlight Tory donor Richard Desmond’s £1 billion development in January, with one source saying he showed “total disregard” for the law. Mr Jenrick had weeks earlier watched a promotional video for the lu
  
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• Priti Patel says Labour MPs who accused her of 'gaslighting black people' were being racist

  28-06-2020 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Priti Patel has said Labour MPs who accused her of attempting to "gaslight" black people in her response to Black Lives Matter protests were "racist" in their views of her. Ms Patel clashed with a group of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) Labour MPs after they accused the Tory politician of using her Indian heritage to cast doubt on black communities' experience of racism in the UK. The Cabinet minister had previously told the 33 MPs who wrote to her that she would "not be silenced" by th
  
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• Video appears to show gunman opening fire at Louisville, KY park protest

  28-06-2020 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dramatic video appears to show the gunman shooting near peaceful protesters who gathered in the park.
  
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• Trump news: President praises ‘great people’ shouting ‘white power’ as Pelosi brands his alleged inaction over Russia-Taliban reports ‘as bad as it gets’

  28-06-2020 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has praised “great people” in footage he shared of furious protesters clashing over his presidency outside a Florida retirement home, in which one apparent supporter repeatedly shouts “white power” from a golf buggy.The only black Republican senator Tim Scott urged him to remove the “indefensible” footage, which he later did. The White House claimed he did not hear the racist chant.
  
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• Over a dozen New York City correction officers face disciplinary action over the death of a trans woman in solitary confinement at Rikers Island

  28-06-2020 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officers waited 90 minutes before calling for medical attention after Layleen Cubilette-Polanco was found unconscious in solitary confinement in 2019.
  
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• Saharan dust cloud hits Southern states in U.S. already struggling with coronavirus surge

  28-06-2020 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida in particular faces a greater risk from the dust as the state experiences record-breaking coronavirus numbers, its ICU capacity under 25 percent.
  
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• Gottlieb expects COVID deaths to rise again amid "major epidemics"

  28-06-2020 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gottlieb said the coronavirus is likely to spread to more vulnerable communities, resulting in more deaths.
  
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• Suspect in killing at Louisville protest in custody

  28-06-2020 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspect arrested in the shooting death of a man during a Louisville protest over the police killing of Breonna Taylor had taken part in demonstrations but was disruptive and had been asked by other protesters to leave, authorities and protesters said Sunday.The man, identified by an arrest citation as Steven Nelson Lopez, was hospitalized and being interviewed by homicide investigators about the shooting that happened late Saturday, interim Louisville Police Chief Robert Schroeder said at a
  
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• Health Department Investigating Potential COVID-19 Exposure At Drive-In Graduation Ceremony In Westchester County

  28-06-2020 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ordering state health officials to investigate potential coronavirus exposure in Westchester County, after someone who attended a drive-in graduation ceremony for Horace Greeley High School students tested positive for COVID-19. CBS2's Nick Caloway reports.
  
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• GOP Senator Urges Trump to Publicly Wear Mask: ‘Would Be a Sign of Strength’

  28-06-2020 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) implored President Donald Trump to publicly wear a mask on Sunday in order to cool the politicization of mask-wearing, appealing to the president’s vanity in the process.With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations surging across the nation and states pulling back on reopening their economies, Alexander was asked by CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday morning about the president’s resistance to symbolically embrace a basic safety protocol.“You, I
  
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• Louisville gunman opens fire on protesters; at least 1 dead, authorities say

  28-06-2020 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities in Louisville, Kentucky were investigating after a suspect opened fire on a crowd of peaceful protesters at Jefferson Square Park.
  
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• Pence cancels campaign events in Florida and Arizona as coronavirus cases spike

  28-06-2020 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A campaign spokesperson said the cancellations were "out of an abundance of caution" as cases climb in Florida and Arizona.
  
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• Brexiteers to be recruited and departments moved to regions in huge Whitehall shake-up

  28-06-2020 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson will reform Whitehall by recruiting more Brexiteers and relocating Government departments to the regions, Michael Gove has said. The moves will come as part of a wholesale reform of the civil service that will include ousting its head, Sir Mark Sedwill. Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said the "looking glass" world of Westminster had caused Whitehall to be "estranged from the majority" when the EU referendum was held in 2016. Mr Johnson, together with his chief ad
  
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• Transcript: Tim Scott on "Face the Nation"

  28-06-2020 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The following is a transcript of an interview with Senator Tim Scott that aired Sunday, June 28, 2020, on "Face the Nation."
  
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• Trump Faces Mounting Defections From a Once-Loyal Group: Older White Voters

  28-06-2020 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Clifford Wagner, an 80-year-old Republican in Tucson, Arizona, never cared for President Donald Trump.He supported Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential primary race and cast a protest vote in the general election for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee. An Air Force veteran, Wagner described the Trump presidency as a mortifying experience: His friends in Europe and Japan tell him the United States has become "the laughingstock of the world."This year, Wagner said he would register his opposition
  
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• Transcript: Jay Inslee on "Face the Nation"

  28-06-2020 17:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The following is a transcript of an interview with Washington Governor Jay Inslee that aired Sunday, June 28, 2020, on "Face the Nation."
  
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• Trump accused of abusing power after tweeting people wanted for vandalising statues during Black Lives Matters protests

  28-06-2020 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four men have been charged by federal prosecutors for their alleged role in an attempt to take down a statue of Andrew Jackson after Donald Trump called for the arrests of 15 people and shared a series of “wanted” posters, alarming critics that he had put lives at risk by targeting protesters.The men were charged with destruction of federal property, the Justice Department announced on Saturday.
  
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• Rep. Devin Nunes on Big Tech censorship ahead of election

  28-06-2020 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Intelligence Committee ranking member, California Congressman, Rep. Devin Nunes, joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’
  
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• How Trump and the Black Lives Matter Movement Changed White Voters' Minds

  28-06-2020 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice that have roiled the country over the past month, embracing ideas about bias within the criminal justice system and the persistence of systemic racism that are central tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a new national poll of registered voters by The New York Times and Siena College.Fifty-nine percent of voters, including 52% of white voters, believe the death of George Flo
  
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• After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus

  28-06-2020 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON -- More than four months into fighting the coronavirus in the United States, the shared sacrifice of millions of Americans suspending their lives -- with jobs lost, businesses shuttered, daily routines upended -- has not been enough to beat back a virus whose staying power around the world is only still being grasped.The number of new U.S. cases this last week surged dangerously high, to levels not ever seen in the course of the pandemic, especially in states that had rushed to reopen
  
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• Actual Coronavirus Infections Vastly Undercounted, CDC Data Shows

  28-06-2020 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of coronavirus infections in many parts of the United States is more than 10 times higher than the reported rate, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The analysis is part of a wide-ranging set of surveys started by the CDC to estimate how widely the virus has spread. Similar studies, sponsored by universities, national governments and the World Health Organization, are continuing all over the world.The CDC study found, for instance, that
  
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• Golden State Killer admits to dozens of rapes, 13 murders

  28-06-2020 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former police officer who terrorized California as a serial burglar and rapist and went on to kill more than a dozen people while evading capture for decades pleaded guilty Monday to murders attributed to the Golden State Killer.Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. had remained almost silent in court since his 2018 arrest until he repeatedly uttered the words “guilty” and “I admit” in a hushed and raspy voice as part of a plea agreement that will spare him the death penalty for a
  
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• California's alleged Golden State Killer set to plead guilty

  28-06-2020 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Forty years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings, a 74-year-old former police officer is expected to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State Killer.The deal will spare Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. any chance of the death penalty for 13 murders and 13 kidnapping-related charges spanning six counties.“I’ve been on pins and needles because I just don’t like that our live
  
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• Crowds pack Arizona river as U.S. posts record COVID cases for three days running

  28-06-2020 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The surge in COVID-19 cases has been most pronounced in a handful of Southern and Western states that reopened earlier and more aggressively, despite warnings by health officials to wait to see a steady decline in cases.For a third consecutive day on Saturday, the number of confirmed U.S. cases rose by more than 40,000, one of the largest surges in the world.In Arizona, cases have risen by 267% so far in June and jumped by a record 3,857 cases on Sunday, the eighth record-breaking increase this
  
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• Closing time for some California bars as U.S. posts record COVID cases

  28-06-2020 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California on Sunday ordered some bars to close, the first major rollback of efforts to reopen the economy in the most populous U.S. state as cases nationwide soar to record levels day after day.Governor Gavin Newsom's order for bars to close in Los Angeles and six other counties followed moves by Texas and Florida to shut all their bars on Friday.Public health officials in California and throughout the nation have identified bars as the most risky non-essential businesses currently open, the st
  
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• Closing time for some California bars as U.S. posts record coronavirus cases

  28-06-2020 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California ordered some bars to close on Sunday, the first major rollback of efforts to reopen the economy in the most populous U.S. state as novel coronavirus cases nationwide soar to record levels day after day.Governor Gavin Newsom's order for bars to close in Los Angeles and six other counties followed moves by Texas and Florida to shut all their bars on Friday.Public health officials in California and throughout the United States have identified bars as the riskiest non-essential businesses
  
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• California orders some bars to close as U.S. posts record COVID cases

  28-06-2020 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Governor Gavin Newsom's order is the first major rollback of efforts to reopen California's economy.In Arizona, another state with a major outbreak, temperatures were expected to rise above 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) on Sunday along the Salt River east of Phoenix.The surge in COVID-19 cases has been most pronounced in a handful of Southern and Western states that reopened earlier and more aggressively, despite warnings by health officials to wait to see a steady decline in cases.
  
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• President Trump shares video of seniors yelling, 'White power' and 'F*** Trump' at one another

  28-06-2020 16:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump promoted a video Sunday that featured clashing protesters, one of whom chants, "White power."
  
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• Trump news – live: President praises ‘great people’ shouting ‘white power’ as Pelosi brands his alleged inaction over Russia-Taliban reports ‘as bad as it gets’

  28-06-2020 16:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has praised “great people” in footage he shared of furious protesters clashing over his presidency outside a Florida retirement home, in which one apparent supporter repeatedly shouts “white power” from a golf buggy. The only black Republican senator quickly urged him to remove the “indefensible” footage, which he later did. The White House claimed he did not hear the racist chant.Joe Biden also accused the president of betraying “the most s
  
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• Rep. Doug Collins: Nadler obsessed with going after Trump

  28-06-2020 16:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler suggests Attorney General Bill Barr could face impeachment probe; Congressman Doug Collins weighs in on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’
  
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