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• Sex trafficking survivors say 'infuriating' QAnon conspiracy theories are silencing their voices

  05-10-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Survivors told Insider that they feel exploited by the QAnon movement, which has been known to regularly share misinformation about sex trafficking.
  
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• Letters to the Editor: Of course Trump isn't more humble and caring now that he has COVID-19

  05-10-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's naive to hope that getting sickened with COVID-19 will somehow change Donald Trump.
  
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• Judge blocks Iowa directive on absentee ballot applications

  05-10-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge blocked Iowa's secretary of state Monday from enforcing an order that barred counties from sending absentee ballot applications to voters with their personal information already filled in.Judge Robert Hanson sided with Democratic Party groups, who contended that Secretary of State Paul Pate exceeded his authority when he told counties that absentee ballot request forms must be blank when mailed to voters.Hanson ordered Pate to halt enforcement of his directive, which the judge said appea
  
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• A fired Amazon employee led a protest in front of Jeff Bezos' $165 million Beverly Hills mansion over workers' wages and job protections

  05-10-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amazon faces multiple lawsuits from employees over its working conditions during the pandemic.
  
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• Trump's doctor is a D.O. How is that different from an M.D.?

  05-10-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Sean Conley, President Trump's personal physician, isn't an M.D. He's a D.O. because he went to an osteopathic medical school. We explain the difference.
  
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• Dissolved migrant caravan sign of tougher Guatemala stance

  05-10-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Guatemalan government’s halt of more than 3,000 Honduran migrants who had set out for the United States amid the pandemic signaled that U.S. pressure on immigration continues to extend southward.Previously, Guatemala did little to stop large movements of migrants crossing its territory.Over the weekend Guatemala followed through, hauling 3,300 migrants back to the Honduran border.
  
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• Why the date of Trump's last negative COVID-19 test matters

  05-10-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Questions remain as to when the president last tested negative for COVID-19.
  
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• White House residence staffers who caught coronavirus were reportedly told to keep it quiet

  05-10-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House residence staffers are reasonably worried about the ongoing spread of COVID-19.While President Trump was transferred to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday after testing positive for COVID-19, he's headed back to the White House on Monday evening. First lady Melania Trump never left.But weeks before their diagnoses, two housekeepers at the White House also tested positive for COVID-19. And while they worked on a different floor than where the first family stays, they were told to us
  
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• Clashes between police and civilians continue in Portland as the city enters its 5th month of anti-racism protests

  05-10-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A police officer drove a motorcycle into a protester. A civilian broke a cruiser window and pepper sprayed a cop.
  
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• 5 worrying red flags from Trump's doctor

  05-10-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's medical team offered an update on the commander-in-chief's condition on Monday ahead of his pending release from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But what wasn't said by Dr. Sean P. Conley, the White House physician, was at times more revealing than what was.Here are some of the biggest red flags from the press conference.1\. "I don't want to go backwards."Putting together a timeline of Trump's illness is not only important for tracing his contacts, but for understanding wh
  
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• 3 people dead, 1 injured in partial building collapse in Houston

  05-10-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Houston Fire Department said a rescue team was responding
  
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• Police are searching for a man who they say used an anti-gay slur before punching someone filming a TikTok

  05-10-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The assailant uttered an anti-gay slur before punching the victim in the face and the back of the head, according to police.
  
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• Senator Graham Schedules Judiciary Committee Hearings for Amy Coney Barrett

  05-10-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Judiciary Committee head Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) announced on Monday a schedule for hearings for President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court.Republicans are attempting to confirm the nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, before the presidential election on November 3. The successful nomination of Barrett would give the Supreme Court a 6-3 majority of conservative justices.The Judiciary Committee hearings will take place from 9 a.m. on Monday, October 12, and continue through Thursda
  
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• Sen. Ted Cruz: 'Critical' to hold Supreme Court hearing as scheduled

  05-10-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Judiciary Committee member joins 'The Daily Briefing' to discuss the high court and the stakes for this election.
  
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• Megachurch Pastor Contracts COVID-19 After Suing to Force School Reopenings

  05-10-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At San Antonio’s Cornerstone Church on Sunday morning, hundreds of maskless congregants sang and prayed, swaying together in the pews, babies and grandparents in close proximity.It might have been easy to forget there was a deadly pandemic blazing through the country.That is, until about 25 minutes into the sermon, when pastor Matt Hagee, on a stage bathed in blue light, announced that his father, the 80-year-old senior pastor and the church’s founder, John Hagee, had been diagnosed
  
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• Supreme Court: Could COVID-19 infections and Democratic delays torpedo Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation?

  05-10-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee, which will question Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, have probably been exposed to the coronavirus.
  
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• Trump campaign claims president’s ‘firsthand experience’ with Covid-19 makes him better candidate than Joe Biden

  05-10-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'Firsthand experience is always going to change how someone relates to something that's been happening,' campaign aide says
  
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• CDC says coronavirus can spread indoors in updated guidance

  05-10-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The top U.S. public health agency said Monday that the coronavirus can spread more than 6 feet through the air, especially in poorly ventilated and enclosed spaces. In interviews, CDC officials have also acknowledged growing evidence that the virus can sometimes spread on even smaller particles called aerosols that spread over a wider area.
  
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• White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tests positive for COVID-19

  05-10-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for COVID, she disclosed on Twitter, the latest high-profile Trump aide to do so.
  
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• Biden tells Trump to 'listen to the scientists' and calls for nationwide mask rule to prevent coronavirus spread

  05-10-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pandemic has ‘ripped off the blinders in this country’ about how ‘inequitable so many things are,' Biden says at event in Miami
  
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• Doctor says 'not at liberty to discuss' Trump's lung scans

  05-10-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Over the past 24 hours the president's condition has continued to improve," Dr. Sean Conley, the White House physician, told reporters Monday (October 5) in a briefing outside the hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.Trump does not have any respiratory complaints, but Conley said he "may not entirely be out of the woods yet." He added that the president would be surrounded by world-class medical care around the clock at the White House.Trump was reluctant to go to the hospital last week and is eager
  
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• White House COVID-19 outbreak shows the limits of testing; even the most accurate ones can miss the coronavirus early

  05-10-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The revelation Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for COVID-19 shows the White House strategy of frequent testing alone isn't enough.
  
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• He tried to carjack 4 people in a row, police say, but all the victims fought back

  05-10-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An attempted carjacking case in Central Florida could have gone a very different way if the intended victims had not fought back. But they did, valiantly.
  
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• Drivers at Google's self-driving sister firm Waymo and Cruise reportedly don't feel safe working amid severe California wildfires and the pandemic

  05-10-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Drivers told The Verge they have two options: roll down the windows to lower the risk of COVID-19 or roll them up to shut out wildfire smoke.
  
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• As Trump fell ill, Republican report praised his leadership on pandemic response

  05-10-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The rosy report contrasted sharply with the reality of a White House in turmoil, not to mention of a nation that widely disapproved of Trump’s coronavirus response even before he himself fell ill.
  
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• UK is looking to expand Five Eyes  to 'send message to China', Defence Secretary says

  05-10-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ben Wallace has warned that the UK is looking at “deepening our Five Eyes” by recruiting more countries in order to “send a message to China”. The Defence Secretary told a ConservativeHome event at the Tory Party Conference that the UK would look to partner with other countries as part of the intelligence alliance which consists of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He said: "We would absolutely continue to explore new working with new partners in Asia and dee
  
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• WH doctor responds to questions about the safety of President Trump’s greeting supporters on Sunday, returning to the White House Monday

  05-10-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House physician Dr. Sean Conley responds to Yahoo News’ Hunter Walker’s questions about the safety surrounding President Trump’s stay at Walter Reed hospital, his leaving the hospital on Sunday to give a drive-by wave to supporters and his expected return to the White House on Monday.
  
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• US Navy’s aging surface fleet struggles to keep ships up to spec, report shows

  05-10-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A report on inspections of U.S. Navy ships shows the surface fleet struggling with declining readiness.
  
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• NRA Head Wayne LaPierre Under IRS Investigation for Tax Fraud: Report

  05-10-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Internal Revenue Service is investigating National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre for possible criminal tax fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.New York attorney general Letitia James filed suit against the NRA in August, seeking to dissolve the organization and accusing LaPierre and other senior members of repeated fraud stretching back decades. When asked at a press conference whether she believed LaPierre evaded reporting personal taxes, James said she had contacted th
  
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• A California man has been livestreaming footage of burned-down neighborhoods so evacuees can see if their homes survived the wildfires

  05-10-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wildfires have burned more than 3 million acres of land in Northern California since the start of the year. One volunteer, Dan Ryant, has been livestreaming footage of burnt houses so evacuated residents can see if their houses survived the blazes.
  
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• We got a pandemic puppy and it was a mistake. Now what?

  05-10-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We got a pandemic puppy back in March and, I hate to say it, but it was a major mistake."
  
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• Sen. Ron Johnson Says He Will Vote in Person to Confirm Barrett Despite Testing Positive for Coronavirus: ‘I’ll Go in a Moon Suit’

  05-10-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Ron Johnson said Monday that he has no symptoms after testing positive for the coronavirus over the weekend and announced that he plans to vote in person on the Supreme Court nomination even if it means he has to wear a "moon suit.""I feel perfectly normal, I have not had any symptoms," Johnson said Monday during a radio interview on the Ross Kaminsky Show.Johnson's office announced Saturday that the Wisconsin Republican tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday and was not experienc
  
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• Cargo carriers warn that getting a COVID-19 vaccine to everyone on Earth could take up to two years

  05-10-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Up to 20 billion doses of a coronavirus vaccine are expected to be needed, but shipping challenges mean it could take years to be distributed.
  
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• Trump told Americans: 'Don't be afraid of COVID.' Here's why his odds are better than almost anyone else of his age and condition.

  05-10-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president's weight, sex, and age put him at high risk of severe COVID-19, but his race, wealth, job, and access to top doctors act in his favor.
  
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• Wind power for every home within 10 years, Boris Johnson to pledge

  05-10-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Every home in Britain will be powered by wind farms within a decade, Boris Johnson is to pledge on Tuesday. The Prime Minister will promise to make the UK the world leader in low cost clean power generation by harnessing the country's "limitless resource" offshore. It will be part of a "green industrial revolution" that Mr Johnson believes could create millions of jobs over the next 10 years, replacing many of those lost because of the coronavirus pandemic. In his speech to the Conservative Part
  
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• China leads UN call for US to end 'coercive' sanctions

  05-10-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China, Russia and two dozen other countries called on the United States and Western countries to end the use of unilateral sanctions, which they said make it harder to deal with Covid-19.
  
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• Canada suspends weapons sales to Turkey

  05-10-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canada announced Monday the suspension of arms exports to NATO ally Turkey as Ottawa investigates the alleged use of its military technologies in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.
  
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• Tennessee inmate who claims innocence asks for clemency

  05-10-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Tennessee death row inmate who has always claimed innocence asked the governor on Monday to commute his sentence to life in prison.Pervis Payne, 53, is scheduled to die on Dec. 3 for the 1987 stabbing deaths of Charisse Christopher and her 2-year-old daughter, Lacie Jo.Payne, who is Black, told police he was at Christopher’s apartment building to meet his girlfriend when he heard the victims, who were white, and tried to help them.
  
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• Drug companies are recruiting Black Americans to participate in COVID-19 vaccine trials, trying to break down decades of mistrust

  05-10-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Black Americans have been affected by the coronavirus at a disproportionate rate, but many have been wary to participate in vaccine trials.
  
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• Researchers find 'Queen of the Ocean' ancient great white shark off Nova Scotia coast

  05-10-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The shark, named Nukumi by researches, is more than 17 feet long, 3,541 pounds and believed to be about 50-years-old.
  
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• The week in polls: Trump trails in 10 of 11 swing states, plurality says Biden won 1st debate

  05-10-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After polls released last week, Biden overtook Trump in Georgia. And his national lead grew to an average of 8.1 percentage points.
  
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• Murder hornets resurfacing in Washington state, officials warn

  05-10-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'We believe, of course, we're dealing with a nest’
  
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• The Trump administration is handling the White House COVID-19 outbreak in the same disastrous way it approached the country's

  05-10-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There's been little to no transparency, mixed messaging, and a continued lack of respect for public health recommendations despite an evolving crisis.
  
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• Breathing with face mask does not alter oxygen level; virus can last nine hours on skin

  05-10-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood were measured before and after the walking test. Mask discomfort is likely not due to rebreathing of carbon dioxide and decreases in oxygen levels, the researchers reported on Friday in the journal Thorax. Left undisturbed, the new coronavirus can survive many hours on human skin, a new study has found.
  
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• CDC finally acknowledges airborne spread of coronavirus

  05-10-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In late September, the CDC was forced to delete a guidance describing the airborne qualities of the coronavirus. The new guidance comes as President Trump remains hospitalized with what could be a serious case of COVID-19.
  
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• The Taycan EV was Porsche's 3rd best-selling car in Q3, beating out established names like the 911

  05-10-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The $103,800 Porsche Taycan's strong sales were despite it having the highest starting price of any Porsche model currently offered.
  
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• Nothing will stop Mitch McConnell from confirming Amy Coney Barrett. Not even Covid

  05-10-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate majority leader views remaking the federal bench in his conservative image as the crowning achievement of his time alongside Mr Trump, US political correspondent Griffin Connolly writes
  
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• 'Don't be afraid of it,' Trump says of COVID-19 after leaving hospital

  05-10-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday evening to return to the White House, three days after being admitted to the hospital for treatment of complications from COVID-19.
  
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• Portland Police Spent Nearly $8 Million in First Two Months of Nightly Rioting

  05-10-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Portland police spent $7.9 million responding to demonstrations and violent riots in just the first two-and-a-half months of unrest in the city, according to a National Review analysis of protest costs.The vast majority of the spending, or $5.3 million, was for officer overtime pay, according to recently released Portland Police Bureau data of spending from June 1 to August 13.The agency also spent over $1 million for regular officer pay and $341,000 in premium pay.The data documents nearly 1,50
  
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• ‘The media should not turn itself into contortions trying to be ‘fair’ to the president’: Dan Rather on ‘unprecedented challenge’ of covering Donald Trump

  05-10-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Interview: Dan Rather has seen a lot in his career, he tells Andrew Buncombe, but nothing like this
  
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