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• Tennessee police officers broke down door of innocent family

  20-08-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three Tennessee police officers have had their powers suspended after they broke down the door of an innocent family early on Tuesday morning.
  
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• Joe Biden's incomparable presidential odyssey

  20-08-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When Joe Biden accepts the Democratic Party's presidential nomination tonight, it will mark a major milestone in a journey he's been on for more than three decades.Biden first sought his party's nomination for the 1988 race, but his candidacy didn't even survive into the election year: He withdrew in September 1987 after reports he had plagiarized portions of a speech by British politician Neil Kinnock. (He ended up having surgery for a brain aneurism in early 1988 and wouldn't have been able to
  
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• US-Europe row as Pompeo triggers start of Iran sanctions 'snapback'

  20-08-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States formally began the process Thursday of activating a controversial mechanism aimed at reimposing sanctions on Iran, a move that was immediately rejected by European allies fighting to save the Iranian nuclear deal.
  
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• 'Grannies for justice': 7 people, including 79-year-old nun, charged in Kentucky after Breonna Taylor sit-in

  20-08-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Those charged had a combined age of 514 years, organizers say. The sit-in took place on Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's front lawn.
  
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• Double trouble: Pair of tropical systems could near US as powerful storms early next week

  20-08-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A pair of tropical depressions were forecast to approach U.S. shores by early next week, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
  
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• Save up to 45% on a rotary tool and mini circular saw for your household projects - CNET

  20-08-2020 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stock up your toolbox: Get a rotary tool for $20 and a circular saw for $36.
  
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• Disneyland shows off its Marvel Quinjet - CNET

  20-08-2020 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Construction continues on Avengers Campus.
  
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• Two gold nuggets worth $350,000 found in Australia

  20-08-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The discovery of the 2.5kg stones in Victoria state was shown on TV programme Aussie Gold Hunters.
  
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• Fact check: COVID-19 is deadlier than the 1918 Spanish flu and seasonal influenza

  20-08-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A claim comparing mortality rates among the three diseases per world population contains misleading information. We rate this claim partly false.
  
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• Stephen Miller reportedly wanted to separate every migrant family that crossed the border

  20-08-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many of the Trump administration's most powerful officials voted in favor of separating migrant children from their parents in 2018, NBC News reports.Family separation at the border hit its peak in the summer of 2018 after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched the U.S.'s "zero tolerance policy" that prosecuted all immigrants crossing the border, including parents who were then separated from their children. Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller is known as the architect of that plan, but
  
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• 36 students at Purdue University suspended after party

  20-08-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Unfortunately, everything we have done – the months of planning to give our students the opportunity to continue their educational pursuits in person – can be undone in the blink of an eye," a university official said.
  
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• 36 Purdue University students suspended after off-campus party

  20-08-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspensions come as a number of other schools have had to roll back plans for in-person classes after outbreaks of COVID-19.
  
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• More evacuations as massive fires rapidly expand in California

  20-08-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A series of massive fires in northern and central California forced more evacuations as they quickly spread Thursday, sending plumes of smoke over the San Francisco area and dangerously affecting air quality.
  
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• A 'border wall' built on fraud?

  20-08-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Steve Bannon charged in a border wall fraud scheme. Trump's attempt to block a subpoena for his tax returns was rejected. It's Thursday's news.
  
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• Army Destroys Cruise and Ballistic Missile Targets in 2nd Test of New Defense System

  20-08-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was the final live-fire exercise in a limited user test of the Army's Integrated Battle Command System.
  
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• Uber and Lyft actually aren't halting operations in California, after court ruling - CNET

  20-08-2020 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a quick back-and-forth, it looks like it's going to be business as usual for the ride-hailing companies.
  
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• Double trouble: Pair of tropical systems forecast to take aim at U.S., could make landfall early next week

  20-08-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A pair of tropical depressions were forecast to approach U.S. shores by early next week, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
  
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• Blue Origin team hands a full-scale mockup of its lunar lander over to NASA - CNET

  20-08-2020 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The team will work with NASA organizations to conduct engineering and crew operations tests.
  
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• Republican senator Bill Cassidy tests positive for coronavirus

  20-08-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican senator Bill Cassidy has tested positive for Covid-19, after he was exposed to someone infected with the virus.On Thursday, Mr Cassidy’s office announced that he had become just the second senator to have contracted coronavirus, after Republican Rand Paul tested positive for Covid-19 in April, according to CNBC.
  
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• Former Uber security chief charged for allegedly covering up hack - CNET

  20-08-2020 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hackers accessed data from millions of Uber users in 2016, but it wasn't revealed to the public until 2017.
  
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• US Army’s future missile defense command system nearly simultaneously defeats cruise, ballistic missile threats

  20-08-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Find out how the Army's most recent IBCS live-fire test went, and see footage a Black Dagger target missile launch.
  
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• Mnuchin says he was not involved in postmaster general selection

  20-08-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he played no role in the selection of a supporter of President Donald Trump as the head of the U.S. Postal Service, even as a former official accused him of interfering in agency operations.Democrats have harshly criticized Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was tapped by the board of governors to take over in June.Mnuchin said he was "surprised" to learn that DeJoy was a finalist for a job.
  
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• Body cam footage shows Phoenix police restraining a man on asphalt in 100-degree heat who later died

  20-08-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Phoenix police launched an internal investigation and released footage showing the arrest of Ramon Lopez, 28, who died in hospital shortly afterward.
  
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• Trump takes Plan B re-election sales pitch for a test drive in Scranton

  20-08-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump, standing under a blistering Pennsylvania sun, officially shifted his re-election bid to Plan B on Thursday.Unable to implement Plan A, making the pre-coronavirus US economy the basis of his sales pitch for a second term, the president used a campaign rally near Scranton, Pennsylvania – designated Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's hometown – to unveil some new attack lines.
  
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• Joe Biden’s moment: Why his improbable candidacy may finally work

  20-08-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former veep’s relationship-centered approach to politics stands apart from the technocratic Obama era, and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
  
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• Inside the Wild Finale of DARPA’s Simulated Drone Dogfights

  20-08-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Tremel was in the cockpit of his Super Hornet fighter soaring 20,000 feet over war-torn Syria on June 18, 2017, when he detected a warplane heading toward a U.S.-backed militia force on the ground. Tremel tried to shoo away the other pilot by firing off bright decoy flares. But the Syrian aviator ignored the warning and dropped bombs on the militia position. Tremel reacted in seconds, firing two air-to-air missiles that sliced off the other plane’s tail.It
  
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• UVC wands kill viruses. They're also a 'major safety issue,' experts say - CNET

  20-08-2020 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The invisible light can kill viruses and pathogens like the one that causes COVID-19, but experts are raising alarms about the potential safety risks.
  
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• Democrats question whether Trump is breaking the law with RNC speech

  20-08-2020 22:58 via politico.com
  
  The House Oversight Committee continues to ask questions about Trump’s decision to deliver his acceptance speech from the White House next Thursday.
  
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• Can Joe Biden salvage the DNC?

  20-08-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the important exception of Barack Obama's brilliant speech, the Democrats blew it on Wednesday night. Viewers of the third night of the Democratic National Convention were treated to a video about gun control that could have been produced a year ago, long before the current sharp spike in violent crime across the country. Another spot on climate change looked and sounded like part an ad campaign thrown together for an energy company shortly after an oil spill. As for the speeches, all but O
  
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• Putin is counting on your vote in November. Are you in with ‘Vova?’ | Opinion

  20-08-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vladimir Putin is on the ballot this November.
  
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• Steve Bannon: The Trump-whisperer's rapid fall from grace

  20-08-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From "the best talent in politics" to "Sloppy Steve" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?
  
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• Real estate agent fired after removing Black Lives Matter signs from Colorado yards

  20-08-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “We’re not a company that can condone trespassing on people’s private property and theft,” the owner of the real estate agency said.
  
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• Trump: U.S. would retaliate if reports of bounties on U.S. troops were true

  20-08-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump on Thursday promised to retaliate if other countries were found to have offered bounties for attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but he gave no further information whether his stance toward U.S. intelligence reports outlining the bounties had changed.
  
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• U.S. moves to reimpose full UN sanctions on Iran

  20-08-2020 22:28 via politico.com
  
  Pompeo said Washington would issue the sanctions to essentially extend an arms embargo on Tehran.
  
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• Former Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden is banned from Delta Air Lines after not wearing mask

  20-08-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former Navy Seal who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has sparked controversy online after he bragged about not wearing a face mask on a recent flight – a claim that has banned him from Delta Air Lines.Robert O’Neill, 44, a former US Navy SEAL Team Six member, tweeted an image of himself on a flight where he was seen smiling in his seat without a mask.
  
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• Former Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden ‘banned’ from Delta Air Lines after not wearing mask

  20-08-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former Navy Seal who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has sparked controversy online after he bragged about not wearing a face mask on a recent flight – a claim that has apparently seen him banned from Delta Air Lines.Robert O’Neill, 44, a former US Navy SEAL Team Six member, tweeted an image of himself on a flight where he was seen smiling in his seat without a mask.
  
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• Thousands of homes threatened by massive California wildfires; more than 50,000 flee

  20-08-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of people remained under evacuation orders in regions around the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday as wildfires blazed across the state.
  
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• The Effects of Hong Kong’s National-Security Law Are Already Clear

  20-08-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just a few weeks after China’s imposition of a new “national-security law” on Hong Kong, we can already see the law’s effects: It has emboldened the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to suppress dissent, punish activism, and create fear within the city’s democracy movement.In 1997, the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong, which it had governed for 99 years under a lease extorted from the Qing Dynasty, back to the People’s Republic of China. At the time, the PRC prom
  
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• Amazon is cracking down on sellers outside of the retailer's shipping network, and it could be a blow to the USPS

  20-08-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Amazon policy may suck up package volume from the USPS when the agency needs business more than ever.
  
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• Megan Boswell, mom of Tennessee's 2-year-old 'baby Evelyn' has been charged with her murder months after the toddler's remains were found

  20-08-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Evelyn Boswell went missing in December, but a family member didn't report it until February. Her remains were found on a family member's property.
  
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• Trump claims Biden 'abandoned Scranton' when family moved 50 years ago

  20-08-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mocking the designated Democratic presidential nominee in his hometown, Donald Trump told a rally crowd that Joe Biden "abandoned Scranton" then "sold out" America during a half century in Washington."Joe Biden is no friend of Pennsylvania," the president said on a sun-drenched stage in the key swing state, where he trails the former vice president in nearly every poll by a statistically significant margin.
  
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• ‘Predatory’ cop raped women he arrested – sometimes in Tennessee squad car, feds say

  20-08-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors accused 35-year-old Desmond Logan of choosing “victims whom he thought no one would believe.”
  
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• Israel launches airstrikes after 2 rockets fired from Gaza

  20-08-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed near the Israeli security fence late Thursday, and Israel carried out airstrikes on targets linked to the territory's Hamas rulers, the Israeli military said.The military said it struck a “concrete manufacturing site used for underground infrastructure and tunnel construction, belonging to the Hamas terror organization.”Tensions have risen in recent days as groups affiliated with Gaza's militant Hamas rulers have launched incendiary balloo
  
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• USPS head has no plans to replace sorting machines or reverse other Postal Service changes, Pelosi says

  20-08-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Postal Service deferred comment to DeJoy's Tuesday statement, where he said he would stop changes but did not address their reversal.
  
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• Reopen schools and let parents decide how to educate their children in COVID-19 pandemic

  20-08-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Children can be harmed by lack of education, nutrition and mental health care. We cannot ignore the casualties of all other conditions to contain COVID.
  
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• Latinos pressure California governor on US Senate appointee

  20-08-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Latino group openly pressured Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday to select a Hispanic replacement if U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris' seat becomes vacant, saying it was time for a historic pick that would reflect the growing influence of Latinos in the nation's most populous state.The letter to Newsom from the Latino Community Foundation marks a new public phase to the emerging competition for the seat, which would open up if Joe Biden and Harris, his pick for vice president, win in November.Should a vacancy
  
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• Dem convention shows Biden wants to reassemble Obama's coalition — not build a new one

  20-08-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When former President Barack Obama spoke Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, it was striking, and telling, to hear which voters he was trying to reach: his voters — the voters he thinks can carry his former running mate, Joe Biden, to victory. 
  
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• Montana governor presses to remove Trump's public lands boss

  20-08-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Montana’s Democratic governor asked a federal judge Thursday to take swift action to remove the Trump administration’s chief steward of public lands, as the former industry attorney hangs onto the post despite the White House saying Saturday that his nomination would be withdrawn.Gov. Steve Bullock said William Perry Pendley's continuing leadership of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management undermines conservation efforts and is illegal because Pendley never had a Senate confirmation hear
  
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• More than 360 fires are burning across California, one person is dead. Here's what we know.

  20-08-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amid a blistering heat wave that is now in its second week, hundred of wildfires are burning in California, which is under a statewide emergency.
  
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• The ‘We Build the Wall’ Huckster Is Accused of Duping Donors. Turns Out, He Planned to Sell Their Data Too.

  20-08-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors on Thursday arrested former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage, the head of a nonprofit seeking to privately finance construction of a southern border wall, and accused them of illegally using that nonprofit to enrich themselves. But the sums the two men allegedly extracted from the organization just scratched the surface of their grandiose plans to make money off the effort. As he was using his group, We Build The Wall, to compile millions of email addresses a
  
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