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• White House press secretary says 'science should not stand in the way' of school reopenings before claiming 'the science is on our side'

  16-07-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration's push to reopen schools comes as states across the country report new surges in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations.
  
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• Brazil coronavirus cases reach two million, doubling in less than a month

  16-07-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil on Thursday passed the 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases mark, with little sign that the rate of increase is slowing as anger grows over President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the outbreak.Just 27 days have passed since Brazil, which has the world's second-largest outbreak after the United States, reached one million cases.By contrast, 43 days passed between 1 million and 2 million confirmed cases in the United States, where the spread of COVID-19 eased briefly in May before accelerat
  
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• As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, the US Army is still looking for new ways to get to a fight in Europe

  16-07-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Coronavirus threw things off a little bit, but we were able to adapt and overcome," the executive officer of 101st Combat Aviation Brigade said.
  
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• First Cambodian to return after deportation inspires others after gaining U.S. citizenship

  16-07-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “There’s this belief that once you get deported, that’s the final sentence of your life and there’s no chance of returning to a life back here, let alone a life with citizenship,” one advocate said.
  
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• UK boosts healthcare funding to ward off winter COVID-19 wave

  16-07-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to pour 3 billion pounds into England's National Health Service (NHS) to try to ward off any resurgence of the coronavirus.Britain is the worst-affected country in Europe by COVID-19 with a death toll from confirmed cases of more than 45,000.The government has faced criticism over several different aspects of its response to the pandemic, including that it was too slow to impose a lockdown and failed to ramp up testing capacity quickly enough.
  
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• CDC extends US ban on cruise ships through September

  16-07-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal health officials are extending the U.S. ban on cruise ships through the end of September as coronavirus infections rise in most U.S. states, including Florida.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it was extending a no-sail order that had been scheduled to expire July 24.In the order signed by CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, the agency said the cruise industry hasn't controlled transmission of the virus on its ships.
  
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• Florida continues to set tragic records

  16-07-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida reported a daily record for COVID-19 deaths. Russia's accused of hacking COVID-19 vaccine trials. It's Thursday's news.
  
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• A Las Vegas man has been arrested after police said he 'goaded' a homeless man into performing a fatal backflip for $6

  16-07-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the video livestreamed on Facebook, the man could be heard telling viewers he had offered the homeless man cash for the deadly stunt.
  
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• Florida at center of virus outbreak and battle over school reopening

  16-07-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida is the new epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States and is shaping up as a key battleground in a partisan-tinged fight playing out nationally over reopening schools in the fall.While cities such as Houston, Los Angeles and New York plan to begin the school year virtually or on a restricted in-person basis, Florida governor Ron DeSantis is insisting schools reopen fully in August.The Republican governor's demand mirrors that of President Donald Trump, who is facing a tou
  
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• Protests in Michigan after student jailed for not doing online schoolwork

  16-07-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of Detroit-area students turned out in protest outside their high school Thursday calling for the release of a classmate who is in juvenile detention after not completing schoolwork during remote learning this past semester.The 15-year-old student, called Grace in the original ProPublica report that highlighted her situation, was on probation for fighting with her mother and stealing.ProPublica reported that Grace, who has attention deficit disorder, was easily distracted when studying
  
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• Trump Campaign Legal Adviser Appears on Kremlin-Backed TV

  16-07-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top Trump campaign adviser recently appeared on the Russian-government funded TV network RT, which U.S. intelligence agencies have said plays a role in the Kremlin’s plans to undermine American democracy.Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis’ appearance on RT’s The Alex Salmond Show aired on July 9. She appears to be the first Trump campaign official to go on the Russian-funded network since the 2016 election. During her interview, Ellis defended Trump’s
  
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• NYPD chief of department on attack by anti-police activists

  16-07-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four NYPD officers injured in clash with counter-protesters; NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan speaks out.
  
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• In Oklahoma tribal decision, ‘rule of the strong’ falls to rule of law

  16-07-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In McGirt v. Oklahoma, the U.S Supreme Court held that as much as half of the state of Oklahoma may now, legally, be Indian Country.
  
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• A sheriff's deputy shot a 14-year-old boy. It went unreported for months.

  16-07-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I thought we had honesty," said Gaylor Spiller, head of the NAACP chapter in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. "This 14-year-old boy that they kept hidden, it's very telling."
  
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• Fire extinguished aboard USS Bonhomme Richard after raging for 4 days

  16-07-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Firefighters extinguished the blaze that had raged aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at its pier in San Diego for four days.
  
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• Analysis: Trump wants a 2016 repeat in a very different year

  16-07-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls.With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior.Four years later, and in the midst of another summer slump, Trump is hoping a similar campaign shakeup will help put him on the path to another come-from-behind victory in November, this time against Democrat Joe Biden.
  
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• US Navy says all known fires on USS Bonhomme Richard are finally out after more than 4 days of around-the-clock firefighting

  16-07-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'It is too early to make any predictions or promises of what the future of the ship will be," a senior Navy official said.
  
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• Maxwell could "squeal" on "well-known names," Epstein accuser says

  16-07-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Maxwell is facing criminal charges in connection with Epstein and was denied bail this week.
  
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• Supreme Court temporarily blocks felons from voting in Florida

  16-07-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Voting rights groups told the Supreme Court that Florida's system amounts to a "poll tax" that violates the 24th Amendment to the Constitution.
  
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• Space Force Selects More Than 2,400 Airmen to Join the New Service

  16-07-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It announced that it has chosen 2,410 members within the space operations and space systems operations career fields.
  
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• Trump campaign aims to reset with staff shake-up, sharpened data focus

  16-07-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's troubled re-election bid entered a new phase on Thursday after a leadership shake-up put a longtime Republican political strategist in charge of resetting the campaign even as Trump refuses to show more discipline.Bill Stepien's promotion to campaign manager less than four months until the Nov. 3 election is expected to sharpen the Trump team's focus on the strategy needed to drive votes to the Republican incumbent in critical battleground states, sources said.Stepien ha
  
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• Pandemic and power struggle hobble Bolivia ahead of vote

  16-07-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bolivia is grappling with two crises: the pandemic and bitter political discord ahead of elections scheduled for September, nearly a year after the chaotic ouster of the former president, Evo Morales.In a new flare-up in Bolivia’s power struggle, the government was criticized this week for promoting a group of military officers without approval of the opposition-held legislature, as required by the constitution.The government had accused the opposition of blocking the promotions as a way t
  
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• Gokada app founder died of multiple stab wounds, NY medical examiner says

  16-07-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The body of Fahim Saleh, 33-year-old founder of the popular motorbike-hailing app Gokada, was discovered in his apartment on Tuesday afternoon, police say.Security camera video showed Saleh in the apartment building’s elevator with a man in a dark suit, mask and gloves, the media reports said.Video footage showed the suspect following Saleh into the seventh-story apartment, where a struggle began.
  
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• Trump demands payroll tax cut in next Covid relief bill

  16-07-2020 21:46 via politico.com
  
  The president has been fixated on a payroll tax cut for months, even though it has fallen on deaf ears on Capitol Hill.
  
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• 'I think I'm pretty effective': Fauci says he's staying in his job despite 'complicated' relationship with Trump

  16-07-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "With all due modesty, I think I’m pretty effective," Anthony Fauci said.
  
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• California to release rules for reopening schools on Friday as coronavirus cases mount

  16-07-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California Governor Gavin Newsom will release new guidelines for opening schools as coronavirus cases continue to mount in the most populous U.S. state, his office said Thursday.The guidelines, to be released on Friday, come amid an intense debate across the United States about whether it would be safe to send children and teachers back into the classroom amid an ongoing pandemic.The discussion has taken on a political tinge, as Republican President Donald Trump urges a return to regular school
  
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• Illinois coronavirus | Gov. Pritzer updates reopening plan as COVID-19 cases continue to rise slightly

  16-07-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Illinois reported 1,257 new COVID-19 cases and 25 additional deaths Thursday.
  
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• Breonna Taylor protesters want police in jail. Instead, 435 of them have been arrested.

  16-07-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 87 arrested Tuesday were the latest example of protesters in the Breonna Taylor movement being unfazed by punishment from a justice system they don’t endorse.
  
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• Border agency fires four for secret Facebook groups with violent, sexist posts

  16-07-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After investigating "inappropriate" social media use, Customs and Border Protection fires four employees, suspends 38 without pay and disciplines 27.
  
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• A Black social worker is suing American Airlines for allegedly accusing her of kidnapping the white toddler she was escorting on a flight

  16-07-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Black social worker says American Airlines employees accused her of kidnapping the white toddler she was bringing home from a parental visit.
  
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• A Black social worker is suing American Airlines, alleging employees accused her of kidnapping the white toddler she was escorting on a flight

  16-07-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Black social worker alleged American Airlines employees accused her of kidnapping the white toddler she was bringing home from a parental visit.
  
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• LAPD officers throw black protester from his wheelchair and damage it, video shows

  16-07-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An officer for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), appeared to push a disabled Black Lives Matter protester out of his wheelchair, before one of his colleagues damaged it.The incident was filmed by a demonstrator at a protest in California on Tuesday and the footage has been circulated on social media.
  
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• Fox News Host Admits She Doesn’t Trust Fox Polls, Deliberately Misleads Pollsters

  16-07-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News host Melissa Francis admitted on Thursday that she doesn’t trust her own network’s polling—conducted by a group considered among the industry’s most trustworthy pollsters—while also claiming on-air that she deliberately misleads pollsters when they call her.With President Donald Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by double digits in many national and battleground state polls, a narrative has formed that there are so-called “secret Trump vo
  
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• Pompeo: If we're going to fight for freedoms abroad we need to protect them at home

  16-07-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discusses the importance of human rights with Bill Hemmer.
  
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• Parts of Leicester to be released from lockdown as city mayor accuses ministers of freeing 'Tory areas'

  16-07-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Parts of Leicester will be released from lockdown after the Government on Thursday adopted a “targeted” approach which will see pockets of the city remain under tighter restrictions. After putting the city into Britain’s first local lockdown a fortnight ago, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that schools and nurseries will reopen from July 24. The council will be given "local powers" to reopen non-essential retail stores where it is deemed safe, but pubs and restauran
  
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• Vital coronavirus data immediately vanishes after Trump administration removes control from CDC

  16-07-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vital data showing whether US hospitals have the resources to deal with the coronavirus pandemic has already vanished from a government website after the Trump administration quietly shifted responsibility for the statistics to another department.Figures tracking the prevalence of free hospital and intensive care beds, and the number of available health care workers, ventilators and personal protective equipment across the US have been compiled – and published – by the Centre for Dis
  
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• 'Sink or swim': GOP Gov. Larry Hogan says Trump left states to fight alone as COVID-19 pandemic raged

  16-07-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hogan said "waiting around for the president to run the nation’s response was hopeless" and would lead "more of our citizens to suffering and death."
  
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• 'Epicenter of the epicenter': Young people partying in Miami Beach despite COVID-19 threat

  16-07-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida's COVID-19 surge hasn't stopped visitors from partying in Miami Beach, which Mayor Dan Gelber calls "the epicenter of the epicenter."
  
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• US tech and film 'collaborating' with China - Barr

  16-07-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Such dealings with Beijing risk undermining the liberal order, the US attorney general says.
  
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• Pro-choice movement's big win at Supreme Court might really have been a loss

  16-07-2020 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When the Supreme Court handed down its ruling striking down a Louisiana law that would have limited abortion access in that state, progressives celebrated. Their reasoning on June 29 was simple: By joining the court’s liberal justices, Chief Justice John Roberts had proven his commitment to the principle of precedent.But the court had also sent several cases – all big wins for abortion rights – back to lower courts for reconsideration.Those moves, and a closer look at the decis
  
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• Fox's Harris Faulkner is used to people making presumptions

  16-07-2020 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As a Black journalist who works at Fox News Channel, Harris Faulkner is accustomed to people who presume to know where she stands on issues.“When anybody looks at you and looks at your position and think they know who you are, you have the advantage of being able to surprise them,” said Faulkner, centerpiece of two weekday hours at Fox and host of a special on America's racial reckoning that airs at 10 p.m. Eastern on Sunday.Faulkner is the most prominent Black personality at Fox as
  
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• Novel Baswedan: Indonesian policemen jailed for acid attack on investigator

  16-07-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The attack, carried out by two officers, left an anti-corruption investigator partially blind.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell is 'worse than Jeffrey Epstein' says key accuser

  16-07-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell was “worse than Jeffrey Epstein” and “masterminded” the alleged abuse of women and young girls, one of his victims has claimed. Virginia Roberts Giuffre said she met Maxwell when she was 16 years old and alleged that the British heiress arranged for her to have sex with Prince Andrew three times when she was 17. The prince and Maxwell have adamantly denied the accusations. “Ghislaine was much more conniving and smart than Epstein ever was,” M
  
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• Brazil tops 2 million coronavirus cases, with 76,000 dead

  16-07-2020 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Since late May, three months after Brazil's first reported case of the coronavirus, it has recorded more than 1,000 daily deaths on average in a gruesome plateau that has yet to tilt downward.On Thursday evening, the federal health ministry reported that the country had passed 2 million confirmed cases of virus infections and 76,000 deaths.Experts blame denial of the virus' deadly potential by President Jair Bolsonaro and lack of national coordination combined with scattershot responses by city
  
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• Kangaroo apprehended roaming Fort Lauderdale streets leaves police perplexed

  16-07-2020 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida police shocked to see a kangaroo hopping through city streets.
  
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• Florida breaks single-day coronavirus death toll record, still has no mask mandate

  16-07-2020 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida's coronavirus problem keeps getting worse.The state reported its highest-ever single-day death toll on Thursday, with 156 people reported dead from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The numbers have Miami, recently called the "new epicenter of the pandemic," considering mandatory lockdowns, but Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) doesn't seem inclined to push many statewide restrictions at all.Thursday marked the second time this week Florida broke its coronavirus death toll record, with 132 people repor
  
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• Trump news - live: President makes bizarre comments about his hair and lightbulbs in freewheeling White House speech

  16-07-2020 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign staff amid falling poll numbers less than four months before the US presidential election, replacing his campaign manager Brad Parscale with veteran Republican operative Bill Stepien.The RNC has told members that attendance will be severely restricted for much of August's convention in Jacksonville due to the coronavirus. Many events over the four-day period will also take place outside. The surge of coronavirus cases continues with Florida reporting the m
  
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• Brazil's beaches empty out, breathe easier, during pandemic

  16-07-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Rio has in recent weeks relaxed lockdown measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus, most locals are still shunning famed beaches like Copacabana and Ipanema as a precaution.The beach volleyball courts are empty.Biologist Mario Moscatelli told Reuters the dearth of visitors and traffic was giving the city's beaches a breather in several ways.
  
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• President Trump under fire for White House photo op

  16-07-2020 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president launched into his own dire predictions on what would happen if he is not reelected in November as a new poll shows him trailing Democratic hopeful Joe Biden.
  
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• UK, US, Canada Accuse Russia of Hacking Virus Vaccine Trials

  16-07-2020 19:55
  Britain, the United States and Canada accused Russian hackers on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a coronavirus vaccine, warning scientists and pharmaceutical companies to be alert for suspicious activity.
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