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• 6 states sue postal service regarding mail-in voting

  22-08-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News White House correspondent Jon Decker discusses the reactions states are having to mail-in voting ahead of the elections.
  
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• Trump attacked the FDA on vaccine timing just days after a top official pledged to resign if the administration rushes out an unproven immunization

  22-08-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president's tweet comes days after a top FDA official said they would resign if the administration released a COVID-19 vaccine that wasn't safe.
  
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• As the Puerto Rican town of Guánica braces for a tropical storm, the earth shakes again

  22-08-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michelle Morales was washing dishes in her home in the Puerto Rican municipality of Guánica Saturday morning when the earth began to tremble.
  
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• TikTok confirms it will sue the US government, alleging Trump failed to provide 'due process' before issuing ban

  22-08-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TikTok reportedly plans to target Trump's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, arguing the company was deprived of due process.
  
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• Louisiana officers fire 11 rounds, fatally shooting Black man; state police investigate

  22-08-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisiana State Police identified the man killed as 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin and said he was carrying a knife before he was fatally shot.
  
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• Fewer and fewer priority mail packages were delivered on time after DeJoy took over the USPS, internal documents reveal

  22-08-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said there was a "dip" in USPS service. Democrats on Saturday accused him downplaying "alarming nationwide delays."
  
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• 'Melting faster and faster': Greenland lost 1 million tonnes of ice for each minute of 2019

  22-08-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  High temperatures saw Greenland lose enough ice to cover the US state of California in more than four feet of water in 2019 alone, a study which suggests the island lost a million tonnes of ice for every minute of the year has said.After two years in which the land masses’ summer ice melt had been negligible, satellite measurements have suggested an excessively hot 2019 saw the loss of 586 billion tons of ice melt from the island.
  
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• What Washington Can Do for Belarus

  22-08-2020 22:40 via politico.com
  
  It won’t be easy to get “Europe’s last dictator” out of power, but pressure from the West will help.
  
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• Fear of COVID-19: Collateral damage of closed schools is worse than the risk of the virus

  22-08-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COVID makes it hard for schools and universities to reopen. But children's psyches are at stake and we are not nearly as afraid of that as we should be.
  
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• 'Not an easy task': GOP scrambles to finalize plans for convention amid COVID-19, venue changes, Trump input

  22-08-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Planners still haven't provided a final schedule or other key details of the Republican National Convention, which opens next week.
  
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• 2nd night of protests against GOP convention in Charlotte

  22-08-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters returned to the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to demonstrate for a second night as GOP officials gathered in the city for the Republican National Convention.Police used bicycles to block protesters Saturday night from gathering close to the Charlotte Convention Center, the site of the convention.The Secret Service set up a perimeter, news outlets reported.
  
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• White House Rose Garden set for first lady speech

  22-08-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House Rose Garden has been spruced up in time for its moment in the campaign spotlight. First lady Melania Trump will deliver her Republican National Convention speech Tuesday night from the garden. (Aug. 22)
  
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• The Gulf Coast preps for two tropical storms to make landfall

  22-08-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Millions of Americans are on high alert along the Gulf Coast as two tropical storms are threatening to make landfall in the coming days. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli has more.
  
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• London's famous Tower Bridge gets stuck in an open position

  22-08-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  London's famous Tower Bridge, which crosses the River Thames in the heart of the British capital, was stuck open on Saturday, leaving traffic in chaos and onlookers amazed at the sight.The historic bascule-and-suspension bridge failed to close after opening to allow ships to pass underneath on the Thames.City of London police tweeted shortly after 5 p.m. that the bridge was closed to pedestrians and traffic and mechanics were working to fix the problem.
  
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• A mother and her 6 children were forced to get off a Jet Blue flight after her 2-year-old couldn't keep her face mask on

  22-08-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The other passengers on the flight defended the mother of six as she was asked to leave the plane, NBC New York reported.
  
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• Double hurricane threat as Tropical Storms Laura and Marco advance towards US Gulf Coast

  22-08-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two tropical storms are advancing across the Caribbean posing potentially historic threats to the US Gulf Coast, with both projected to reach the coast at or close to hurricane force.The current projected track for Tropical Storms Laura and Marco by the US National Hurricane Center puts both storms together in the Gulf on Tuesday, with Marco set to hit near the Texas-Louisiana border and Laura set to make landfall a little less than a day later.
  
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• Trump criticized Democrats for not saying 'under God' during the pledge of allegiance at the DNC, but they did on all four nights

  22-08-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump falsely accused Democrats of purposely taking "the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance" at the Democratic National Convention.
  
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• LeBron James called out political ad campaign using his tweet about voter suppression to discourage mail-in voting

  22-08-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Friday, LeBron James responded to Protect My Vote using his tweet about voter suppression to spread doubt about voting by mail.
  
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• Pompeo, Kushner to Mideast as US presses Arab-Israeli peace

  22-08-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration will send two top officials to the Middle East this week in a bid to capitalize on momentum from the historic agreement between Israeli and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations.Three diplomats say Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner plan to make separate, multiple-nation visits to the region in the coming days to push Arab-Israeli rapprochement in the aftermath of the Israel-U
  
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• A CDC study of child-care centers in Rhode Island shows 'there is a path' towards safe reopening, director says

  22-08-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CDC director Robert Redfield said the study is evidence that child-care centers and schools can reopen safely despite the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Morales' office denounces sex complaint as 'dirty war' by interim government

  22-08-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The press office of former Bolivian President Evo Morales denounced a criminal complaint of sex abuse as part of a "dirty war" by the interim government against the ousted leader less than two months before the country's general elections.Bolivia's justice ministry this week filed a complaint against Morales, 60, for statutory rape and human trafficking in connection to his alleged relationship with a 16-year-old girl."Former President Evo Morales will not comment on the de facto government's di
  
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• Coast Guard stops two separate migrant boats off the Keys this week

  22-08-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twenty people from Cuba were stopped at sea off the Florida Keys this week in two separate attempts to enter the United States, the Coast Guard said Saturday.
  
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• 'Hurry, he's dying': A hospital chaplain’s journal chronicles a pandemic's private wounds

  22-08-2020 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisville chaplain Adam Ruiz found himself thrust into some of the global pandemic's most private and painful moments.
  
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• Health officials in 3 states have traced new COVID-19 cases to the Sturgis motorcycle rally where hundreds of thousands of bikers gathered

  22-08-2020 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Phone-location data revealed that visitors came to Sturgis from all parts of the US, including states that recently saw surges in COVID-19 cases.
  
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• A Georgia police officer was fired after a viral TikTok showed him tasing a Black woman outside her home

  22-08-2020 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Oxford, who had been a police officer since February 2019, was fired for violating policy after a video showed him tasing an unarmed woman.
  
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• Marco forecast to become hurricane as governors urge residents to brace for storms

  22-08-2020 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Marco, located about 50 miles (80 km) west of Cuba with winds of 65 mph, was expected to intensify as it moved through the Yucatan Channel into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center's latest bulletin.To the east, Tropical Storm Laura was packing 50 mph winds as it moved west at 18 mph about 100 miles west of Ponce, Puerto Rico, the center said.It is forecast to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday, NHC projections show.
  
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• Fact check: DNC didn't leave out 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance

  22-08-2020 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two meetings of Democrats did not recite the phrase "under God" when saying the pledge. It's partly false to say DNC omitted or took out the clause.
  
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• WHO says children aged 12 and over should wear masks like adults

  22-08-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organization (WHO) said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults, while children between six and 11 should wear them on a risk-based approach.Children aged 12 and over should particularly wear a mask when a one-metre distance from others cannot be guaranteed and there is widespread transmission in the area, the WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a document on the WHO website date
  
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• Trump 2020 Senior Advisor on the upcoming RNC convention

  22-08-2020 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  David Bossie, Trump 2020 Senior Advisor and Trump 2016 Deputy Communications Director, discusses what to expect at the RNC convention.
  
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• French government condemns vandalism at site of Nazi massacre

  22-08-2020 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French government officials on Saturday said they would work to track down those responsible for defacing a memorial to the victims of a Nazi massacre during World War Two, which was painted over with graffiti calling the killings a lie.The site, at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane near the western city of Limoges, commemorates the hundreds of men, women and children who were killed in June 1944 by an SS division.Prime Minister Jean Castex said in a statement that everything would be done to bri
  
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• 'Don't pay attention' to Trump's words -Pelosi

  22-08-2020 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pelosi urged voters not to be scared by threats from President Trump to have federal personnel at polling sites in November. At the same time, Pelosi said, Trump is taking efforts to undermine mail-in-voting with the country still gripped by a pandemic.
  
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• Joe Biden willing to 'shut country down' again to stop Covid-19 as Trump pushes ‘deep state’ conspiracy for vaccine delay

  22-08-2020 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden said he would not hesitate to shut down the country again if scientists recommended the measure to stop the spread of the coronavirus.In his first joint interview with running mate Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee criticised his opponent Donald Trump’s rush to reopen after a nationwide lockdown as a “fundamental flaw” in his handling of the pandemic.
  
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• Tropical East Pacific to erupt with activity early this week

  22-08-2020 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Atlantic Tropical Basin has exploded with activity in recent days as two tropical systems will eye the Gulf Coast for U.S. landfall this week. As the South prepares for impact, the East Pacific Basin may be erupting with activity.While there are currently no organized tropical systems, the East Pacific Basin is expected to come to life early this week as AccuWeather forecasters monitor two areas for potential tropical development.A tropical wave expected to emerge over the Pacific Ocean from
  
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• Tropical East Pacific to erupt with activity early next week

  22-08-2020 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Atlantic Tropical Basin has exploded with activity in recent days as two tropical systems will eye the Gulf Coast for U.S. landfall this week. As the South prepares for impact, the East Pacific Basin may be erupting with activity.While there are currently no organized tropical systems, the East Pacific Basin is expected to come to life early this week as AccuWeather forecasters monitor two areas for potential tropical development.A tropical wave expected to emerge over the Pacific Ocean from
  
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• 12PM UPDATE: Tropical Storm Marco will be our first threat

  22-08-2020 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The tracks on both storms are still wide and uncertain, as Houston's weather is perfect for prepping your home and family for next week.
  
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• ‘I’m Not Worried’: Gamblers Pack Casino Surrounded by Raging Wildfires and COVID-19

  22-08-2020 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BROOKS, CA—By Friday evening, northern California’s LNU Lightning Complex fire had become the second-largest wildfire in state history, killing at least five people, destroying 500 structures, and forcing evacuations in two cities and an Air Force base. It was just 15 percent contained.But up in rural Capay Valley, as the historic blaze crept within two miles of Cache Creek Casino Resort and the sun blazed orange behind blooms of smoke, hundreds of gamblers shirked both fire and the
  
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• Cosmetic surgery and super yachts: Inside the 'Build The Wall' scheme that led to Steve Bannon's arrest

  22-08-2020 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Relaxed and brimming with bravado, Steve Bannon sat back in his seat, and smiled his wolfish grin at the camera. “We’re off the coast of Saint-Tropez in southern France, on the Mediterranean,” he said. “We’re on a million-dollar yacht – Brian Kolfage, he took all that money from ‘Build the Wall.'” He laughed, chummily slapping Mr Kolfage, triple-amputee Iraq veteran, on the shoulder. It was a joke, of course. Fast forward just over a year, and, pro
  
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• 2 tropical storms threatening the Gulf Coast could make history

  22-08-2020 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both systems are forecast to make landfall next week along the Gulf Coast, one day apart and miles from each other.
  
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• Biden's polling remains steady after DNC, but favorability gets a boost

  22-08-2020 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, didn't see his general election polling numbers rise in the immediate aftermath of this week's Democratic National Convention, a new Morning Consult poll shows.The poll, which was conducted Friday (one day after Biden gave his acceptance speech completing the four-day DNC) and released Saturday, has Biden up nine points on President Trump, compared to the eight point advantage he enjoyed Monday. But the small improvement
  
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• New York blocked a wedding with 175 expected guests from being held this weekend

  22-08-2020 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal appeals court Friday granted New York's attempts to block weddings from having more than 50 people, allowing the court fight to continue.
  
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• Donald Trump accuses Food and Drug Administration of delaying coronavirus vaccine

  22-08-2020 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump accused the US Food and Drug Administration of preventing pharmaceutical companies from finding people to test coronavirus vaccines on. The US president suggested "deep state" elements at the FDA wanted to delay a vaccine until after the election. Mr Trump wrote on Twitter: “The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. "Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer unti
  
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• Sudan poised to follow UAE and normalise ties with Israel in hugely symbolic move, despite internal divisions

  22-08-2020 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sudan is believed to be the next Arab state to normalise relations with Israel, following the recent surprise announcement that the United Arab Emirates had established diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. However, mixed messages coming out of Khartoum in recent days highlight how sensitive the subject is for the nation, and that any path forward will be fraught with difficulty. On Tuesday, a Sudanese foreign ministry official told Sky News Arabia that Khartoum was “looking forward
  
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• Rats reported feeding on packages of rotted fruit and meat as postmaster general's cutbacks unleash chaos at California's mail centers

  22-08-2020 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The reports come after the recently-appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy made a series of sweeping changes to the postal service.
  
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• Trump news: Americans told to prepare for unprecedented dual hurricane threat as president rages against 'deep state' in baseless Covid vaccine conspiracy

  22-08-2020 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two tropical storms advanced across the Caribbean Saturday as potentially historic threats to the US Gulf Coast, one dumping rain on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands while the other was pushing through the gap between Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba.Tropical Storms Laura and Marco were both projected to approach the US Gulf Coast at or close to hurricane force, representing a very unusual threat to Americans in their paths.
  
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• Minneapolis plans to spend $4.8 million on temporary police station after its third precinct burned during George Floyd unrest

  22-08-2020 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A city council committee approved the budget proposal, which includes $3.6 million for a sublease and $1.2 million for renovations.
  
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• Sen. Bob Casey on Biden's shrinking lead in battleground Pennsylvania

  22-08-2020 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new poll shows Joe Biden just four points ahead of President Trump in Pennsylvania; reaction from Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.
  
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• CDC head says US coronavirus outbreak could be controlled if '90% of Americans' follow safety guidelines like wearing a mask

  22-08-2020 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Robert Redfield told CNBC that if guidelines such as social distancing are followed, "we could see this outbreak under control" in about 12 weeks.
  
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• How does coronavirus spread at a concert? Germans do a test

  22-08-2020 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany held a pop concert Saturday to see how those attending would spread coronavirus.The possible risks of virus clusters building up in educational institutions and then spreading to families and further into society has been a matter of great concern.
  
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• Spruced-up White House Rose Garden set for first lady speech

  22-08-2020 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House Rose Garden has been spruced up in time for its moment in the campaign spotlight.First lady Melania Trump will deliver her Republican National Convention speech Tuesday night from the garden, famous for its close proximity to the Oval Office.White House officials said the renovations were paid for by private donations.
  
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• Trump to attend Republican convention as Biden promises coronavirus action

  22-08-2020 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * GOP will mount in-person elements despite pandemic* Barr told Murdoch to ‘muzzle’ Fox News Trump critic – book* Michigan: can young voters flip a key county against Trump?Donald Trump is set to travel to Charlotte on Monday, to attend in person as delegates to the Republican National Convention renominate him for US president.The North Carolina city was chosen two years ago as the site where Republicans would officially launch Trump’s bid for re-election, only for the c
  
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