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• Human remains found during search for missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen

  30-06-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The search for Vanessa is now over," said Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller. He described the area as a "shallow grave."
  
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• Fact check: Democratic Party did not found the KKK, did not start the Civil War

  30-06-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Frequent claims that the Democratic Party of the 19th century either started the Civil War or formed the KKK are false, according to historians.
  
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• How the explosive YouTube war between James Charles and Tati Westbrook brought the value of vitamin supplements into question

  30-06-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Westbrook and Charles' falling out and Westbrook's apology video raised questions about the value of supplements.
  
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• 1 of 2 Oklahoma officers shot during traffic stop dies

  30-06-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the two Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officers who were shot during a traffic stop has died, authorities said Tuesday.Police Chief Wendell Franklin said Sgt. Craig Johnson died Tuesday.Franklin described Johnson's death as a “tremendous loss” to the police department.
  
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• Texas bars sue state’s governor and alcohol commission over coronavirus closures

  30-06-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bar owners in Texas are suing governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission after they were ordered to close amid rising coronavirus cases in the state.The businesses have argued in court documents that Mr Abbott’s recent executive order, which paused the further reopening of the state and forced them to close, has singled them out unfairly, according to CBS News.
  
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• Driver In Deadly Crash Has Been Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

  30-06-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman who caused a deadly crash last February has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
  
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• New Brazil minister resigns amid scrutiny of his credentials

  30-06-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s latest education minister reportedly offered his resignation Tuesday just days after his appointment, creating a new headache for the embattled leader as he struggles to start a new chapter at the ministry and shore up flagging support.Economist Carlos Alberto Decotelli, facing a slew of allegations that he embellished his academic credentials, tendered his resignation in the afternoon, Brazilian media said, including a report in the newspaper Folha de
  
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• Sen. Rand Paul on grilling Dr. Anthony Fauci over re-opening schools amid coronavirus pandemic

  30-06-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Republican member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, joins Neil Cavuto with insight on 'Your World.'
  
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• Fact check: Chick-fil-A has not resumed donations to groups that oppose LGBTQ rights

  30-06-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The restaurant chain has faced past criticism for donations to various organizations, but a viral claim about giving to anti-LGBTQ groups is untrue.
  
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• Anthony Fauci tells Congress new coronavirus cases could reach 100,000 a day without changes

  30-06-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New cases have been increasing by about 40,000 a day, Fauci told Congress Tuesday, adding that could rise to 100,000 a day without changes.
  
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• Russia tells IAEA it is incident-free after nuclear particle increase

  30-06-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia has told the U.N. atomic watchdog there have been no nuclear incidents on its territory that could explain elevated but still harmless levels of radioactive particles detected on the Baltic Sea last week, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday.A separate body, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), which watches for nuclear weapon tests, said on Friday a monitoring station in Sweden had found higher-than-usual levels of caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103.
  
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• Sen. Joe Manchin on calls for national mandatory mask order, White House response to COVID crisis

  30-06-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, Democratic member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joins Neil Cavuto on 'Your World.'
  
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• Feud ends in gunfire as pastor kills two in front of his daughter, Las Vegas cops say

  30-06-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man, a pastor at a Las Vegas church, killed his 71-year-old neighbor and her friend with a shotgun, police say.
  
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• California Governor Alludes to Further Pullback of Reopening

  30-06-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As cases of the coronavirus keep rising, Gavin Newsom pointed to indoor spaces and insisted, “We have to be tougher.”
  
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• Top Trump aide says president is 'eager to return to the campaign trail' amid reports a planned rally was scrapped

  30-06-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh held a press conference call with reporters on Tuesday where he said the president is “eager to return to the campaign trail and to keep campaigning and keep connecting with Americans.” 
  
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• Reports Say China Has a New Jet Fighter in the Works. Here's What We Know.

  30-06-2020 22:59 via popularmechanics.com
  
  While technically "new," the jet is likely something we’ve seen before.
  
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• Trump could have learned Russia targeted U.S. troops — but Diamond and Silk were waiting | Opinion

  30-06-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It comes down to a binary choice. Either he is a monster or an ignoramus.
  
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• McEnany on the PDB: ‘The president does read’

  30-06-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a press briefing on Tuesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said President Trump reads the President’s Daily Brief, and added that he is “the most informed person on planet earth when it comes to the threats that we face.”
  
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• We found the best deals to shop during Home Depot's massive 4th of July sale

  30-06-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retailers such as Wayfair and Walmart are also offering major savings.
  
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• Europe Portrays Both America and Iran As Rogue States At the UN

  30-06-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pompeo finally had his chance to face off with Iran, Russia, and China. He may have gotten more than he bargained for.
  
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• Black Lives Matter responds to charges of terrorism filed against some Oklahoma protestors

  30-06-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Black Lives Matter leaders say they are “deeply disturbed” by the charges of terrorism filed against some protesters in Oklahoma City.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway's 15-year-old daughter is defiantly posting anti-Trump and pro-Black Lives Matter TikToks 'to inform people and spread love'

  30-06-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Claudia Conway said her mother, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, asked her to delete the TikTok videos, but she "respectfully declined" to do so.
  
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• Venezuela general accused with Maduro unable to pay attorney

  30-06-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Venezuelan general who was organizing a volunteer army to overthrow Nicolas Maduro says he is unable to afford a legal defense in a U.S. narcotics case that charges him alongside gis homeland's socialist president.Gen. Cliver Alcala surrenderedin March to face U.S. accusations that he led with Maduro and two others for two decades a narcoterrorist conspiracy that sent 250 metric tons of cocaine a year to the U.S. and turned the Venezuelan state into a platform for violent cartels and Co
  
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• There's no comprehensive database of police killings in the US, so a group of volunteers is making one

  30-06-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EBWiki, or "End Bias Wiki," is reminding the public that police forces kill Black Americans every day and agitating for justice.
  
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• Trump a ‘coward or complicit’ over Russia bounty claims, says ex-Navy SEAL in new ad

  30-06-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former US Navy SEAL has hit out at Donald Trump in a new attack ad released by a Republican political group, calling him a "coward" or "complicit" regarding the allegations that Russia has been paying bounties to Afghans who kill US military members.The minute-long ad by the Lincoln Project features former US Navy SEAL Dr Dan Barkhuff — now an emergency room doctor and the founder of the Veterans for Responsible Leadership PAC — chastising the president for his response to reports
  
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• The B-52 Bomber Once Had Fake Missiles To Fool Russia (Or Anyone) in a War

  30-06-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This platform gave the B-52 one interesting way to trick its opponents.
  
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• Staying Apart, Together: A sore throat made me grateful for my health in the time of COVID

  30-06-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Quarantine has been hard, don't get me wrong, but I've been fighting my bouts of depression, boredom, loneliness without the burden of being ill.
  
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• McConnell eyes next coronavirus package after July recess

  30-06-2020 21:53 via politico.com
  
  Negotiations are likely to be even more painful in this round of talks.
  
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• ‘People like you getting shot.’ Miami man arrested after pointing gun, racist tirade.

  30-06-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dwayne Wynn was over at his next-door neighbor’s house chatting about an alligator spotted in a nearby lake. Then, Wynn spotted something else: a red Jeep Cherokee pulling into his driveway, driven by a man delivering fliers to mailboxes.
  
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• 'I Can't Focus on Abortion Access if My People Are Dying'

  30-06-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Like many young Americans, Brea Baker experienced her first moment of political outrage after the killing of a Black man. She was 18 when Trayvon Martin was shot. When she saw his photo on the news, she thought of her younger brother, and the boundary between her politics and her sense of survival collapsed.In college she volunteered for the NAACP and as a national organizer for the Women's March. But when conversations among campus activists turned to abortion access, she did not feel the same
  
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• Russia nears end of vote on extending Putin's rule to 2036

  30-06-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A vote on amendments to Russia’s constitution that could allow President Vladimir Putin to hold power until 2036 entered its final day Wednesday amid widespread reports of pressure on voters and other irregularities.For the first time in Russia, polls were open for a week to bolster turnout without increasing crowds casting ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic — a provision that Kremlin critics denounced as an extra tool to manipulate the outcome.Putin is all but guaranteed to get t
  
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• Pompeo warns Taliban against attacking Americans

  30-06-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Afghanistan's Taliban against attacks on Americans, the State Department said Tuesday, amid outrage over alleged Russian bounties to target US troops.In a telephone call Monday with Taliban negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Pompeo "made clear the expectation for the Taliban to live up to their commitments, which include not attacking Americans," a State Department statement said.
  
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• Fake contact tracing part of 'rapidly evolving' coronavirus fraud, U.S. DOJ warns

  30-06-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Trade Commission warned that fake contact tracers were asking for money and trying to collect social security numbers, bank and credit card information from individuals.The DoJ said it would continue to prosecute those committing such fraud.
  
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• Trump niece's book blocked by New York judge but lawyer files appeal

  30-06-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President’s brother, Robert Trump, is trying to stop publication of niece’s ‘revelatory’ tell-all bookMary Trump filed an immediate appeal on Tuesday, after a judge in New York issued a preliminary injunction to stop Donald Trump’s niece publishing a book about the family.The president’s brother, Robert Trump, is attempting to stop the publication of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, which is due for publica
  
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• Mexican prosecutors seek arrests of 46 officials in student disappearance probe

  30-06-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican prosecutors have requested 46 arrest orders for public officials over charges of forced disappearance and organized crime as part of a renewed probe into the disappearance of 43 student teachers, the attorney general said on Tuesday.The warrants are for officials from Guerrero state, where the students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared in a 2014 case that became a crisis for the administration of then-President Enrique Pena Nieto and triggered international outrage.
  
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• Biden team putting together list of Black female court picks

  30-06-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden said Tuesday that his team is putting together a list of potential options for his first Supreme Court nominee, which he has already pledged will be a Black woman.Biden had previously committed that one of his first acts as president would be to nominate a Black woman to serve on the country’s highest court, but he had resisted calls from advocacy groups to commit to releasing a full list of options during the campaign.In contrast, President Donald Trump pledged earlier this mont
  
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• Vice President Mike Pence discloses donors who helped pay nearly $500K in legal bills from Mueller investigation

  30-06-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence received nearly $500,000 from a dozen contributors to help him pay his legal bills from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
  
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• Trump niece's book blocked by New York judge but lawyer promises appeal

  30-06-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President’s brother, Robert Trump, is trying to stop publication of niece’s ‘revelatory’ tell-all bookAn attorney for Mary Trump promised an immediate appeal on Tuesday after a judge in New York issued a preliminary injunction to stop Donald Trump’s niece publishing a book about the family.The president’s brother, Robert Trump, is attempting to stop the publication of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, which
  
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• Amid surge in coronavirus cases and mounting criticism, GOP leaders do about-face on masks

  30-06-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage large swaths of the U.S., leading Republicans and even some right-wing TV personalities have come out in favor of wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus.
  
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• Study finds asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs: 'Only plausible explanation'

  30-06-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new study found what happened to the Earth's dinosaurs. An asteroid strike blocking out the sun for years and causing permanent winters was cause.
  
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• 'Our war-time president has surrendered' -Biden on Trump

  30-06-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We don't need a cheerleader Mr. President, we need a President, Mr. President," Biden said. Speaking in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, the former vice president argued that earlier action by Trump would have reduced the number who fell ill and the economic impact of the virus.
  
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• Biden: Confederate monuments belong in museums, not public squares

  30-06-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday said that Confederate monuments belong in museums, not public squares, but that it is best to remove them peacefully."Don't be surprised if someone pulls down the statue of Jefferson Davis," Biden said, referring to the president of the short-lived, pro-slavery Confederate States of America in the 19th century.Speaking to reporters in his home state of Delaware, Biden said elected officials in places where such statues exist have a "responsi
  
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• Heather Mac Donald: Police are the government agency that cares most about saving black lives

  30-06-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'The War on Cops' author Heather Mac Donald on why defunding the police is a 'dangerous' idea.
  
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• New York City to cut police budget, but some say it's not enough

  30-06-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has agreed with the City Council to slash the New York Police Department's spending in the 2021 fiscal year's budget, which is due to be passed on Tuesday, but some lawmakers said it fell short of a $1 billion cut they had demanded.Nearly $484 million will be cut from the NYPD's budget, while another $354 million will be transferred to other city agencies, with the mayor shifting oversight of school safety officers from the NYPD to the Department of Education,
  
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• New York City passes budget with police cuts, but some say it's not enough

  30-06-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York City Council voted to pass the 2021 budget on Tuesday night with cuts to police funding after weeks of fraught negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, but some lawmakers complained it fell short of a $1 billion cut they and protesters demanded.The austere, coronavirus-era budget tightens spending across city agencies, including a cut of nearly $484 million from the New York Police Department's $6 billion operating budget if the department can adhere to new overtime limits, the counc
  
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• Trump's Mount Rushmore fireworks: No social distancing or masks required for 4th of July event

  30-06-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For President Trump's Independence Day fireworks celebration at Mount Rushmore, attendees will not be required to practise social distancing or wear masks, the state’s governor said.In an interview with Fox News, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was asked about health concerns being cited as a reason to cancel Fourth of July celebrations.
  
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• 21 states, DC require masks indoors and in public spaces

  30-06-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. attorney Brett Tolman weighs in on mask mandates amid coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• US Air Force delays timeline for testing a laser on a fighter jet

  30-06-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What's caused the test, originally scheduled for 2021, to be pushed to 2023?
  
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• Jamaica suspends use of British royal insignia after anti-racism protests

  30-06-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jamaica has suspended the use of a badge representing one of the highest British royal honors after anti-racism protesters decried its imagery of a white angel standing on the head of Satan depicted as a chained man with dark skin.Protesters in Jamaica and elsewhere have likened the image to George Floyd, the Black American who was killed last month after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.The Queen’s Representative to Jamaica, Governor General Patrick A
  
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• FCC Bans Funding to Huawei, ZTE over China Ties

  30-06-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Federal Communications Commission has banned Huawei and the ZTE Coroporation from receiving federal funds because of the companies' ties to the Chinese government.The ban prevents both companies from drawing on the FCC's Universal Service Fund, an $8.3 billion fund paid for by Americans via phone bill fees."The [FCC] has designated Huawei and ZTE as national security risks to America's communications networks-and to our 5G future," FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement. "We cannot and wi
  
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