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• Why SpaceX's astronaut mission for NASA is such a big deal for Elon Musk's rocket company and the US as a whole

  31-07-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If SpaceX successfully returns NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth, it will open a new era of commercial human spaceflight.
  
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• Senate Democrats press Postal Service on delivery complaints

  31-07-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday pressed new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about complaints from Americans about slow delivery since he took office in June and whether service problems could hinder attempts to mail in 2020 election ballots during the pandemic.Gary Peters, top Democrat on the committee overseeing the Postal Service, along with Amy Klobuchar, Tom Carper and Charles Schumer sought answers about mail delivery under DeJoy, a top supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump who was a
  
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• GOP leaders can't bank on Trump's help in Kansas Senate race

  31-07-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Establishment Republican leaders are scrambling to pull out a win in a tense party battle for the nomination in the Kansas Senate race, and they won't be able to count on last-minute help from President Donald Trump.Trump has signaled to allies and aides that he won't endorse in the primary between Rep. Roger Marshall, the preferred candidate of Washington Republicans, and conservative lightning-rod Kris Kobach.Although GOP leaders believe Kobach's hardline anti-immigration message is too divisi
  
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• U.S. to hike fees for immigration benefits

  31-07-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Under the new rule, the U.S. will start charging for asylum applications for the first time in its history.
  
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• Trump news: President threatens Portland protesters with ‘strong offensive force’ as White House condemns delay of Hong Kong elections

  31-07-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has threatened Portland protesters with "very strong offensive force" as the federal government and residents continue to clash in the liberal city. The president warned he might send the National Guard to stop the "terrorists" in the city.In Albuquerque, meanwhile, activists vowed to meet federal agents with peaceful protests and civil disobedience as Trump said the government's response would expand to more cities, including Detroit, Cleveland and Milwaukee.
  
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• Murphy says New Jersey's COVID-19 figures are 'setting off alarms'

  31-07-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New Jersey's coronavirus caseload and the rate of transmission have climbed higher and are "setting off alarms," Gov. Murphy said.
  
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• Supreme Court sides with Trump on building border wall with diverted military funds

  31-07-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Supreme Court rebuffs Sierra Club and House Democrats who said Trump was spending billions in defiance of Congress.
  
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• DC releases police footage from 2018 deaths of 3 Black men

  31-07-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Under pressure from the D.C. Council, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department on Friday released long-sought body camera and security footage from the 2018 deaths of three young Black men in 2018.The release was compelled by an emergency police reform bill that Mayor Muriel Bowser criticized as rushed.“The council has determined that this is the statute, that’s the law of the land and we’re going to abide by it,” said MPD Chief Peter Newsham.
  
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• US hits China anew for rights abuses in western Xinjiang

  31-07-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration took new aim at China on Friday by imposing sanctions on a major paramilitary organization in the country’s western Xinjiang region and its commander for alleged human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities.The State and Treasury departments announced the penalties as the White House denounced authorities in Hong Kong for postponing local government elections ostensibly because of the coronavirus pandemic.Criticism of the election delay, which Beijin
  
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• James Murdoch Quits News Corp Board Over Editorial Disagreements

  31-07-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  James Murdoch has resigned from the board of his family’s news behemoth, News Corp, due to disagreements over editorial content published by the company’s notoriously right-wing outlets, The Daily Beast has confirmed.“Mr. Murdoch informed the Company that his resignation was due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions,” a company statement said. He was immediately scrubbed from the
  
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• SpaceX is just days from winning a high-stakes game of capture the flag in space that Barack Obama started almost 9 years ago

  31-07-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On the International Space Station, the American flag that SpaceX claimed has a note: "Do not forget to take with Crew Dragon."
  
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• Boeing wins $265 million to build more special ops Chinook helos

  31-07-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Army has minted another deal with Boeing for more Chinooks for special ops.
  
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• Travel company CWT avoids ransomware derailment by paying $4.5m blackmail demand

  31-07-2020 23:17
  
  US travel company CWT has reportedly coughed up $4.5m to ransomware crooks who stole data and scrambled files.
  
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• Philippines' police have arrested 76,000 people for breaching lockdown as Duterte wages war on COVID-19 just like his war on drugs

  31-07-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Political science professor Aries Arugay told the Washington Post Duterte's government was a "one-trick pony."
  
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• ICE agents defend policy they knew would increase border deaths: 'That's not the same as actively killing those people.'

  31-07-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Netflix's forthcoming six-part docuseries Immigration Nation is being hailed as "the most important TV show you'll see in 2020" and a "damning examination of how ICE and the immigration system" operate. One of the most disturbing moments comes when ICE agents defend a policy of pushing migrants into known dangerous territory — both to make them easier to catch, and also evidently because it could result in their deaths.The policy dates back to the 1990s, when politicians wanted to force mi
  
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• Trump administration overspent on ventilators by as much as $500 million, Democrats' report says

  31-07-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The American people got ripped off, and Donald Trump and his team got taken to the cleaners," said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi.
  
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• Kamala Harris is reportedly losing favorite status in the tumultuous Biden veepstakes. Here's why.

  31-07-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Skepticism around Harris from Biden's inner circle of family and elder statesmen like Chris Dodd all goes back to her big debate moment.
  
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• U.S. appeals court delays release of Ghislaine Maxwell deposition

  31-07-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily delayed the release of a 2016 deposition about Ghislaine Maxwell's sex life, after she argued it could destroy her ability to get a fair trial against criminal charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the order after last-ditch scrambles by Maxwell to keep potentially embarrassing information, which her lawyer said could make it "difficult if not impossible" to find an impa
  
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• Karl Rove on how coronavirus response could impact 2020 election

  31-07-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News contributor Karl Rove responds to Biden's criticism of Trump's coronavirus response.
  
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• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ popularity plummets amid widely panned coronavirus response

  31-07-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the span of a few months Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has gone from one of the most admired state leaders in America to one of the most disparaged.
  
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• Here are all the famous people Jeffrey Epstein was connected to

  31-07-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers testified in court that Bill Clinton visited Epstein's island, unsealed documents show.
  
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• Woman who filmed Florida police officer drawing gun during pullover arrested after failing to return vehicle

  31-07-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joneshia Wilkerson, 23, was arrested on suspicion of failure to return a leased vehicle and fraudulent use of a credit card.
  
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• Meet Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, 2 'badass' astronauts, engineers, and dads who are flying SpaceX's Crew Dragon back to Earth this weekend

  31-07-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug "Chunky" Hurley are nearing the end of SpaceX's first crewed mission. This weekend, they're slated to come home.
  
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• CDC: Isolating until COVID-19 test results come back could slow its spread

  31-07-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal government will now reimburse doctors who tell their patients to isolate while they wait for their test results to come back.
  
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• Trump says he's voting absentee in the 2020 election after months of baseless attacks on mail-in voting

  31-07-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump has drawn a false distinction between absentee and mail-in voting, which are virtually the same thing. He is voting by mail in 2020.
  
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• Hong Kong 'seeking arrest' of fleeing activists

  31-07-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six activists, including some now in the UK, are reportedly wanted under the new security law.
  
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• Ex-Weinstein Attorney Lisa Bloom Loses Money Grab in Autistic Kid’s Settlement

  31-07-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal magistrate on Friday denied attorneys’ fees to camera-ready victims’ rights lawyer Lisa Bloom, who had tried to block a multimillion-dollar settlement for a sexually abused autistic teenager who was briefly Bloom’s client.San Francisco-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler instead invalidated Bloom’s lien on the settlement from the West Contra Costa Unified School District and awarded $2,250,000—a figure which includes costs and attorneys’ fees&m
  
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• Boston marathon bombing: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence overturned by appeals court

  31-07-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal appeals court has overturned the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence.The decision by a three-judge panel says that the judge that oversaw the original case did not adequately screen the jury for potential biases.
  
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• Joe Biden's search for a running mate enters final stretch

  31-07-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Joe Biden nears the announcement of his vice presidential choice, the top contenders and their advocates are making final appeals.The campaign hasn't finalized a date for naming a running mate, but three people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans said a public announcement likely wouldn't happen before the week of Aug. 10.Biden said in May that he hoped to name his pick around Aug. 1 and told reporters this week that he would “have a choice in the first week of Augu
  
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• Trump says he doesn’t 'think' Herman Cain caught coronavirus at the Tulsa rally

  31-07-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Herman Cain, the entrepreneur, conservative commentator and 2012 presidential candidate, passed away on Thursday due to complications from COVID-19. The 74-year-old contracted the virus in late June, days after attending a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla.
  
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• 'Alarms are going off' as NJ coronavirus cases rise

  31-07-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The "alarms are going off," New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy warned as the coronavirus transmission rate hit its highest level in three months.
  
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• Boston Marathon bombing: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence overturned

  31-07-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An appeals court orders a partial retrial over the deadly bombing during the 2013 Boston Marathon.
  
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• US Charges Three People for Roles in Epic Twitter Hack

  31-07-2020 22:26
  US prosecutors on Friday announced they have charged three people, one of them from Britain, for roles in hijacking celebrity Twitter accounts and tricking people out of money.
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• Man catches bull shark on Long Island; Officials talk 'Shark Patrols'

  31-07-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Another shark sighting pulled swimmers out of the water Friday, raising the number of instances to 11 since Monday.
  
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• Claudia Conway is criticizing the Trump administration in tweets to Kellyanne Conway, claiming it is 'complicit' in Herman Cain's death

  31-07-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The teenager, who frequently posts anti-Trump content on social media, says it was not her intention to "bash" her mother.
  
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• Activists in Albuquerque vow to meet Trump's federal agents with peaceful protests and civil disobedience

  31-07-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Albuquerque protesters have said they will meet federal agents sent by Donald Trump with civil disobedience and peaceful protests.After an announcement this week that federal agents were pulling out of Portland, the US president announced more agents would be going to Albuquerque to combat violent crime in the city,
  
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• U.S. makes deal for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine, deaths expected to rise

  31-07-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The agreement calls for the U.S. government to pay French drug maker Sanofiand British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline up to $2.1 billion to supply it with enough vaccines for 50 million people, with the option to buy another 500 million doses.The purchase falls under the Trump administration's so-called Operation Warp Speed, intended to rush a COVID-19 vaccine to the market by the end of 2020."Today’s investment supports our latest vaccine candidate, an adjuvanted product being devel
  
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• Florida sets new coronavirus record as U.S. lawmakers bicker at hearing

  31-07-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state health department said Florida registered 257 fatalities, a record for the fourth straight day despite predictions that the U.S. coronavirus epicenter could be shifting to the Midwest.In numerical terms, the one-day loss of life in Florida was roughly equivalent to the number of passengers on a single-aisle airplane.Florida also reported 9,007 new cases, bringing its total infections to over 470,000, the second highest in the country behind California.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi defends cannabis provision in Democrats' coronavirus aid package

  31-07-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nancy Pelosi said the cannabis provision "is by no means of the caliber of money or misrepresentation" as the Republicans' stimulus proposal.
  
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• Booker Prize nominee Tsitsi Dangarembga among arrests as Zimbabwe protests squashed by authorities

  31-07-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in Zimbabwe on Friday arrested internationally-acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga as they enforced a ban on protests coinciding with the anniversary of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's election. Dangarembga, 61, was taken away in a police truck as she demonstrated in the upmarket Harare suburb of Borrowdale alongside another protester, an AFP photographer saw. Streets in the centre of the city were largely deserted as police and soldiers set up checkpoints to prevent entry. Opposition po
  
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• Life in Lebanon under Hyperinflation

  31-07-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This week, while reading a slew of WhatsApp messages from family in Lebanon, I was shocked to hear that my cousin Dalila had to pay the equivalent of USD 200 for dairy products for her family. Expensive dairy is the least of Dalila’s worries, however. As a new mother, she is facing quotas when buying products for her baby boy. “Last month was hard because I was only able to buy two of each item — a maximum of two diapers!” she told me. Her biggest problem is getting formu
  
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• US election 2020: The war hero who could be Biden's running mate

  31-07-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq war veteran and the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress.
  
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• Florida Teen Charged in Massive Twitter Hack, Bitcoin Theft

  31-07-2020 21:45
  A Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday.
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• Mexican president Amlo says he will wear mask 'when there is no corruption'

  31-07-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrés Manuel López Obrador has consistently avoided wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of coronavirusMexico’s president has said he will only wear a mask when the country eradicates corruption – a pledge made the day after Mexico surpassed the United Kingdom in total Covid-19 deaths.Speaking to reporters on Friday morning, Andrés Manuel López Obrador said: “You know when I’m going to put on a mask? When there is no corruption. Then I&rs
  
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• Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence

  31-07-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases.A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial on whether the 27-year-old Tsarnaev should be executed for the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.“But make no mistake: Dzhokhar will spend his remaining days
  
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• Congress leaves town without a coronavirus stimulus deal, allowing $600 unemployment benefit to end

  31-07-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans, Democrats and the Trump administration have been meeting over what should be included in what would be a fifth round of stimulus funding.
  
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• Hurricane Isaias updates: The storm is battering the Bahamas as it moves toward Florida

  31-07-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hurricane Isaias is headed toward southern Florida. The storm already caused power outages and flooding in Puerto Rico.
  
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• Trump says he doesn’t think Herman Cain got coronavirus at the president’s Tulsa rally

  31-07-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Before leaving the White House on Friday, President Trump praised Herman Cain and said he doesn’t believe the 2012 Republican presidential candidate got the coronavirus at Trump’s June 20 rally in Tulsa, Okla. Cain died on Thursday after contracting COVID-19. Earlier at a White House briefing, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany referred to Cain’s website regarding speculation that he may have gotten coronavirus from the rally, saying, “We’ll never know.”
  
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• Trader Joe's says no to changing ethnic-sounding label names

  31-07-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trader Joe's, which said earlier this month it was moving to change the names of some of its products after an online petition denounced them as racist, now says it will stick with labels like Trader Jose's and Trader Ming's for Mexican and Asian food. It added, “We do not make decisions based on petitions.” The petition posted on change.org by a high school student claims the names create “a narrative of exoticism that perpetuates harmful stereotypes.”
  
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• "There's a complete disconnect": Florida's school digital divide

  31-07-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With school set to restart in the coming weeks, education leaders and local stakeholders have had to assess the internet and technological gaps facing students who can't afford technology or live outside of the range of internet connectivity.
  
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