| Polls deliver more bad news for Trump Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:25 PM PDT  If the latest national and state polls are correct, President Trump's bid for a second term faces serious headwinds in the four months until the election.
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| CDC maps show Florida's deepening coronavirus crisis, as state shatters daily case record Posted: 26 Jun 2020 09:55 AM PDT  The Sunshine State reported nearly 9,000 new cases on Friday as its death toll ticked over 3,400.
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| St. Louis mayor faces calls to resign after she was accused of doxxing the names and addresses of constituents who wrote letters calling for police defunding Posted: 27 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT  Mayor Lyda Krewson, a Democrat, faced calls to resign after she shared on Facebook names and addresses of protestors who called for police defunding.
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| Italy sends in army after riot erupts on council estate near Naples over new virus outbreak Posted: 26 Jun 2020 10:16 AM PDT  Italy sent soldiers and riot police as reinforcements on Friday to a council estate in the south of the country where a cluster of coronavirus cases among foreign farm workers has sparked tensions with locals. Violence flared between Italian residents and migrant workers on Thursday and Friday in the town of Mondragone, north of Naples, after five blocks of flats were locked down in an outbreak of 43 positive cases, mostly among Roma and Bulgarian field workers. The trouble reportedly began after a group of Bulgarians attempted to force their way through a cordon put in place earlier this week, to protest not being able to return to work. Police persuaded them to return inside, but a few were later spotted heading out. A throng of angry resident Italians then gathered below the tower blocks shouting insults at the inhabitants, some of whom responded by throwing chairs and objects from their balconies. The affected council estate is home to some 300 Italians and 400 migrant workers from Eastern Europe, North Africa and South America. "We have put all the tower blocks in quarantine. Now they need to stay in their homes and respect the rules: for 15 days no-one enters or exits those buildings," said Campania governor Vincenzo De Luca, who requested extra law enforcement from the interior ministry and threatened to lock down the whole town if screening identifies more than 100 cases. Several vehicles with Bulgarian plates were vandalized and a van was set alight with a molotov cocktail on Friday morning before the army unit arrived.
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| White couple calls Mexican American 'criminal,' blocks him from his building Posted: 26 Jun 2020 12:07 PM PDT  Michael Barajas, 28, said he started recording the incident after a white man got aggressive and falsely called him a "criminal."
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| EU holds off decision on borders, Americans set to be excluded Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:21 PM PDT  European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final "safe list" of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July, with the United States, Brazil and Russia set to be excluded. Ambassadors from the 27 EU members convened from Friday afternoon to establish criteria for granting quarantine-free access from next Wednesday. The list did not include the United States, Brazil or Russia, one diplomat said.
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| Seawater seeping into decaying oil tanker off Yemen coast Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:18 PM PDT  The United Nations said an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or exploding, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life, desalination factories and international shipping routes. Meanwhile, Houthi rebels who control the area where the ship is moored have denied U.N. inspectors access to the vessel. Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press shows that seawater has entered the engine compartment of the tanker, which hasn't been maintained for over five years, causing damage to the pipelines and increasing the risk of sinking.
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| Editorial: Goodbye, diesel exhaust. California adopts nation's first zero-emission truck rule Posted: 26 Jun 2020 05:00 AM PDT  The rule is among the most ambitious efforts in the world to replace dirty diesel trucks with electric and other zero-emission vehicles.
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| Pence hails 'remarkable progress' on COVID-19 as new cases surge in many states Posted: 26 Jun 2020 12:27 PM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence hailed "remarkable progress" toward returning the nation to normalcy at the first public briefing of the coronavirus task force in nearly two months on Friday, a day the U.S. saw a new high for coronavirus cases recorded.
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| William Barr claims an election with mail in voting is not secure – but admits he has no evidence for it Posted: 26 Jun 2020 11:18 AM PDT  US attorney general William Barr has suggested that an election that uses mainly mail-in voting will not be secure, but admits he has no evidence to back up his claim.Speaking to NPR on Thursday, the attorney general was asked if he thinks an election that is voted on predominately by mail can be implemented without widespread fraud.
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| A Black man who was punched in the head several times by a Buffalo police officer plans to sue the city Posted: 26 Jun 2020 03:49 PM PDT  In a video of the interaction, a woman can be heard telling Quentin Suttles to stop resisting. He replies, "I'm not."
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| Gingrich: The mob rule in large parts of America can't be sustained Posted: 26 Jun 2020 10:27 AM PDT  The U.S. needs to have an honest conversation about what it takes to make America safe again, Newt Gingrich says on 'Outnumbered.'
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| COVID-19 may be linked to brain complications, study finds. But does it cause them? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:01 PM PDT  Severe cases of COVID-19 may be linked to brain complications, according to the first nationwide survey of the neurological complications.
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| In 2017, Two Historic Accidents Shook The U.S. Navy (Here Is What They Learned) Posted: 26 Jun 2020 08:30 PM PDT  Two deadly collisions involving U.S. Navy destroyers in June and August 2017 may have cost the lives of up to sixteen sailors, leading the Navy to declare a day-long operational pause to reflect upon its safety culture.
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| Galwan Valley: China to use martial art trainers after India border clash Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:50 PM PDT  The move follows deadly fighting between Indian and Chinese troops in an area where guns are banned.
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| A Major GOP Nightmare Moves a Step Closer to Reality Posted: 26 Jun 2020 01:32 AM PDT  Legislation to make the District of Columbia a state is poised to pass the House on Friday, a major advance from the last time the measure came before Congress 27 years ago and 40 percent of Democrats joined with all but one Republican to defeat D.C. statehood. After decades of benign neglect, the movement to make D.C. the 51st state has gained new life with Black Lives Matter and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's heightened profile. President Trump's efforts to use federal force to dominate streets around the White House exposed the subservient status of a city that must answer to Congress for how it spends money while its 706,000 residents are without full voting representation in the House or Senate. Republicans appear unmoved by pleas for equality. Republican Sen. Tom Cotton took to the Senate floor to denounce the Democrats' move in a racially tinged speech depicting D.C. as an elitist conclave of the "deep state" and Mayor Bowser as someone who could not be trusted to keep the city and its statues safe. "Yes, Wyoming is smaller than Washington by population," he tweeted, "but it has three times as many workers in mining, logging, and construction, and 10 times as many workers in manufacturing. In other words, Wyoming is a well-rounded working-class state."Opinion: I Fixed Tom Cotton's Op-EdThe bill to rename D.C. "Washington, Douglass Commonwealth" is going nowhere in Mitch McConnell's Senate. But if the Democrats win the White House and flip the Senate, statehood becomes imaginable, since statehood requires only a vote of Congress. "Trump says Republicans would have to be stupid to support D.C. statehood and that's what the battle is about these days, maybe that's what it's always been about," says Michael Brown, D.C.'s non-voting "shadow senator." Actually, Trump said Republicans would have to be "very, very stupid" to support statehood for D.C. because it would add two Democratic senators, which McConnell would never let happen. "But it's about more than McConnell," Brown told the Daily Beast. "We can't get one Republican (in the Senate), and there are still six (Senate) Democrats who are not on the bill." In the modern Senate, 60 votes are needed to overcome a filibuster and proceed to a vote on legislation of any significance. The exception is judges, where Republicans exercised what is known as the "nuclear option" to confirm two Supreme Court judges and 200 lower court lifetime judges with a simple majority. Democratic leader Harry Reid opened this dangerous door by striking the filibuster for Executive Branch confirmations that McConnell was blocking. Several Democrats who ran for president, including Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg, favor doing away with the filibuster if Democrats win the Senate. Otherwise, they argue, McConnell (or his successor, should he happen to lose his own race) will obstruct everything Democrats try to do. The District of Columbia has a population of 706,000, more than Wyoming and Vermont, and D.C. residents pay more in total federal income tax than 22 states. It has long been a sore point that fighting in every war and contributing blood and treasure is not enough to gain more than a symbolic vote in Congress. D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has served almost 30 years, has a vote in committee but not on the House floor, and if her committee vote breaks a tie, it doesn't count. Even that small measure of democratic largesse was taken away by Republicans when they gained control of the House in 1994 and again in 2010. Democrats restored Norton's limited right to vote when they won the House in 2006 and 2018, and since then Norton has been on a roll when it comes to statehood. She has 226 co-sponsors for the bill, including the No. 2 Democrat in the House, Steny Hoyer from Maryland, who opposed statehood until now. Speaking before the Rules committee Wednesday, Norton explained how the legislation before her colleagues was personal to her own history. "My great-grandfather, Richard Holmes, who escaped as a slave from a Virginia plantation, made it as far as D.C., a walk to freedom but not to equal citizenship," she said. "For three generations my family has been denied the rights other Americans take for granted." Opponents of statehood argue that the Founding Fathers didn't want the District to be a state, but our vaunted forebears also didn't want women to vote, or Black people to vote, so that argument seems lame. "Whether you're a textualist or an originalist, I don't believe the Founding Fathers had any more reason to deny representation to people who pay federal taxes, serve in war and do everything a citizen should—than they would have wanted my neighbor down the hall to have a closet full of AK-47s," says Ellen Goldstein, who served until recently as a neighborhood advisory commissioner for the Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood, home to the Obamas, the Kushners, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. "You can unearth the minds of the Founding Fathers to justify anything," Goldstein told the Daily Beast. "As somebody who has lived here for 50 years, I believe the only reason we're not a state is because of race." Race has a lot to do with it, says Brown, a former political consultant whose unpaid position's main perk is identifying as a senator. The Constitution grants Congress jurisdiction over the District in "all cases whatsoever," which allowed some committee chairmen of the House and Senate Committees on the District of Columbia to run the city like a plantation. In his recent book Class of 1974, John Lawrence recounts how John McMillan, a South Carolina Democrat and a segregationist, sent a truckload of watermelons to the office of appointed Mayor Walter Washington to let him know how little he thought of the budget Washington submitted in 1967 for the committee's review. The District couldn't even elect its own mayor until after Home Rule passed Congress in 1973. For a long time, D.C. pridefully called itself "Chocolate City," acknowledging its majority Black population. No state has ever come into the union with a majority minority population, says Brown. In 1993, the last time Congress voted on statehood, the city was 56 percent Black, a factor in the outcome despite President Bill Clinton's advocacy for statehood. During his final weeks in office, Bill Clinton had the newly authorized D.C. license plate with the slogan "taxation without representation" affixed to the presidential limousine. His successor, President George W. Bush, had the plate removed. It wasn't until after President Obama won re-election in 2012 that he ordered the controversial plate installed on all presidential vehicles. In 2011, the District's Black population fell below 50 percent for the first time in over 50 years. According to 2017 Census Bureau data, the African-American population is 47.1 percent. Unlike the Clinton-era vote, when Democrats were divided on the political merits of D.C. statehood, a newly awakened Democratic leadership is rallying around the cry for equal rights. "It's beyond statehood," says Goldstein, citing congressional meddling in District policies on marijuana legalization, gun regulation, and funding for abortion. "If we decide to do it, they take it away. They take our money and tell us how to spend it." Goldstein doubts the House vote will change anything, but in her thinking, modern America cannot continue to deny D.C. is a state any more than Macy's Department store in the movie classic Miracle on 34th Street could deny Kris Kringle was Santa when bags of letters addressed to him were delivered by the Post Office. Using the same reasoning, Goldstein notes that when she shops online on Amazon and scrolls down, D.C. is a state: "If the Post Office thinks you're Santa, you're Santa. And if Amazon thinks we're a state, then by golly, we're a state."Until a miracle happens on Capitol Hill, that will have to do. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| Lawmakers in Canada and Scotland have pointed to the US as an example of failed coronavirus containment Posted: 26 Jun 2020 05:19 PM PDT  On Friday, the European Union said they would likely bar travelers from the US and other countries that have not curbed the coronavirus.
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| Gunmen wound Mexico City police chief; 3 dead Posted: 26 Jun 2020 05:46 AM PDT  A high-sided construction truck and a white SUV pulled into the path of Mexico City's police chief just as dawn was breaking Friday on the capital's most iconic boulevard and assailants opened fire with .50-caliber sniper rifles and grenades on his armored vehicle. The cinematic ambush involving two-dozen gunmen left chief Omar García Harfuch wounded with three bullet impacts and shrapnel. The high-powered armament and brazenness of the attack suggested the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and hours after the attack, García blamed them via Twitter from the hospital.
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| South Korea backs remdesivir for COVID-19, urges caution with dexamethasone Posted: 26 Jun 2020 04:18 AM PDT  South Korea has added Gilead's anti-viral drug remdesivir to its coronavirus treatment guidelines in its first revision of recommendations since the outbreak began and urged caution in the use of the steroid therapy dexamethasone. Remdesivir is designed to hinder certain viruses, including the new coronavirus, from making copies of themselves and potentially overwhelming the body's immune system.
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| As Biden closes in on VP pick, one longtime adviser hasn't left his side Posted: 26 Jun 2020 03:04 AM PDT  In midst of a campaign interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, Jill Biden's presence is a constant as her husband contemplates his big decision.
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| 5 Stealth Weapons Have Made The U.S. Military Unstoppable Posted: 26 Jun 2020 10:30 PM PDT  Stealth, or the idea of reducing the ability of the enemy to detect a weapon, has been around since the first caveman sewed a pocket into his clothing and hid a rock in it.
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| Coronavirus: Florida and Texas reverse reopening as infections surge Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:55 PM PDT  Florida and Texas reverse moves to reopen business as total cases across the US surpass 2.5 million.
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| Sean Hannity's town hall with President Trump: Part 2 Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:14 PM PDT  President Trump discusses his administration's achievements, media bias, priorities for a second term, John Bolton's book and concerns over voter fraud with Sean Hannity in Green Bay.
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| Storms leave 3 dead, 12 missing in southwest China Posted: 27 Jun 2020 01:36 AM PDT  Three people died and 12 are missing after overnight rainstorms in southwestern China, authorities said Saturday. Two vehicles fell into a river, killing two people and leaving three others unaccounted for, according to the Mianning county government in Sichuan province. Mianning is about 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan.
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| For These New Yorkers, the Coronavirus Nightmare Has Not Ended With Reopening Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:03 AM PDT  On Monday, New York City moved into Phase II, allowing New Yorkers their closest sense of normalcy in months. But even though the transition to the second phase of reopening symbolizes New York City's progress in containing the coronavirus, it doesn't necessarily provide a reprieve from the restrictions and worries for New Yorkers."The reopening has not really changed how I feel," Dior Vargas, a 33-year-old resident of Upper Manhattan, told The Daily Beast. "My assumption is to just hunker down, stay in, and see what happens next. I'm very wary of making any sudden movements." 'Hopefully, The Virus Is Dying in That Room': A New York Nurse Bids Farewell to a Coronavirus ICUCOVID-19 hit Vargas and her family incredibly hard. She, her sister, her mother, and both of her maternal grandparents had the virus, with the latter having to be hospitalized. "Pretty much all of April I was terrified. Every text or call I got from my mom or sister, I assumed either one of them [her grandparents] had died."Vargas has trouble understanding people who are ready to hit the town, especially when they are not wearing masks. "I wonder, do these people who are going out immediately and/or not wearing masks, did they not have people in their lives that they almost lost? Did they not go through this terror every single day?"Pamela Grossman, 53, lives in Brooklyn and can easily recall the "wailing hospital sirens going by every day and the horrible news from every corner." She lost two friends during the pandemic, one a confirmed case of the coronavirus and one suspected. Like Vargas, she is amazed (and appalled) that some New Yorkers can be so cavalier. She said she recently walked by "a BBQ of 40 people, drinking, no social distancing, and no masks." She thought, "Who are you? Did you just get to New York yesterday? Did you not hear the ambulances I heard?"Elischia Fludd, a 37-year-old living in Manhattan, told The Daily Beast that she worries "we are going to have to shut things down again" because of "the way this country is operating on a federal level," along with the inadequate health measures she feels individual state governors have taken. As a result, despite the transition to Phase II, Fludd said, "I continue to take the same precautions."For some New Yorkers, the transition to reopening is hardly a panacea (or even a Tylenol) for their concerns. From Vargas' perspective, the fact that the city has reached certain benchmarks hasn't changed her worries, especially when much is unknown about coronavirus immunity. "I feel like we can't be too comfortable," she said. "I'm still somewhat on pins and needles."In theory, reopening should bring a sigh of relief. But not only are some New Yorkers uneasy and hesitant to loosen the coronavirus restrictions, some experts note that the reopening may actually see an increase in mental health issues.Matthew Shapiro, associate director of public affairs at NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) New York State said their hotline experienced a spike in calls at the start of the pandemic, but then there was a plateau and decrease. With the reopening, though, they are starting to see a new rise. "Initially, we were very valiant and determined to flatten the curve," he said. "As we advanced and move forward, a whole new set of anxieties set in." Dr. James Murrough, associate professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and director of the Depression and Anxiety Center for Discovery and Treatment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said their depression center call volume has had a similar pattern. There was an increase in calls at the start, but then the number of New Yorkers calling in dropped. "I think they were bracing and weathering the storm," he told The Daily Beast. However, "Now, in the last several weeks, we've seen a substantial increase in call volume."Some of that may not only be attributable to fears surrounding the health effects of the virus. There's the effect the pandemic has had on the economy, including widespread job loss. There have also been the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Elijah McClain and many other Black people that have had a traumatizing effect. "We're facing three different storms at once," Shapiro said. "We're dealing with COVID. We're dealing with the economic situation. We're dealing with all the racial injustice. This three-headed monster is really having an impact."There is also the fact that New Yorkers may be facing post-traumatic stress symptoms as they move out of "practical survival mode," Murrough explained. He compared New Yorkers' anxieties in the wake of coronavirus improvement to the that of a solider returning to the calm and safety of home after experiencing combat. "You can tell the patient the war is over, but that doesn't make the symptoms go away," he said. "They still carry the primed activation response state. To one degree or another, we're experiencing that."He pointed to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as a model for understanding the potential long-term mental health effects of the pandemic. He stressed that over time the risk and cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) tapered off. However, "the flipside is that to this day, there are 9/11 monitoring clinics around this city to monitor the physical and mental health effects."Moreover, because uncertainty is an innate part of the pandemic, it may actually make its long-term mental health effects more severe."Part of what perpetuates post-traumatic stress reactions is the uncertainty that another threat will happen again—and that's what we're in," Murrough said. "For everybody, lingering in the back of their minds is, 'Is there another peak? Is there a second wave coming?' Even though the numbers look good, the uncertainty that's inherent to the situation is fueling the anxiety."Dr. Anne Marie Albano, Columbia University professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry, told The Daily Beast that with the Sept. 11 attacks, there was "an identifiable enemy." In contrast, "Here, we have something you can't see; you can't see the droplets of virus." Adding to the uncertainty is the fact that "the virus, unfortunately, doesn't give us a timeline for getting back to normal."But some New Yorkers have already accepted that "normal" is just one of the many things that is lost to the pandemic, and the return of outdoor dining, hair salons, and department stores can't bring it back."I'm reading the coronavirus is going to be part of our lives in some ways for the rest of our lives," said Vargas. "I just feel this sadness about how the life I had before this is never going to be like that again."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Pakistan condemns India's expulsion of diplomats at 'delicate' time after China clash Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:47 PM PDT  Pakistan has accused old rival India of trying to distract the attention of its people by expelling Pakistani diplomats after Indian forces got a "battering" at the hands of Chinese troops in a clash on their disputed Himalayan border. Pakistan is concerned about the tension after the June 15 clash in the Ladakh region, in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed, in particular about the possibility Pakistan could get dragged in, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said. "Things have deteriorated, things are very delicate," Qureshi told Reuters in an interview at his ministry in Islamabad late on Thursday.
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| The H-20 Stealth Bomber: China's Biggest Threat to the U.S.? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 08:30 AM PDT  The bomber, which has yet to be revealed, is expected to enter service in the mid-2020s.
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| Princeton to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from policy school Posted: 27 Jun 2020 05:15 PM PDT  The prestigious US university says Woodrow Wilson's racist views made him "an inappropriate namesake".
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| Arizona's attorney general sent a megachurch that hosted Trump a cease and desist letter over claims its air system could kill the coronavirus Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:09 PM PDT  Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued cease and desist letters to Phoenix's Dream City Church and Clean Air EXP on Friday.
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| Man charged with throwing explosive device that injured Naperville officers Posted: 26 Jun 2020 08:36 PM PDT  An Aurora man is facing federal charges, accused of throwing an explosive device at a Naperville police car during a protest earlier in June.
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| The Trump administration told Facebook and Twitter to remove posts that call for tearing down statues Posted: 26 Jun 2020 12:05 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has railed against protesters over the past month, and has repeatedly clashed with tech companies in the process.
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| More fragments from 1952 crash in Alaska found in glacier Posted: 26 Jun 2020 05:09 PM PDT |
| White House does not commit to temperature checks in meeting with U.S. airlines Posted: 26 Jun 2020 10:01 PM PDT  Top U.S. airline executives met on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence and other senior administration officials but did not come away with any commitments from the White House on mandating temperature checks for airline passengers. Airlines want the U.S. government to administer temperature checks to all passengers in a bid to reassure the public.
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| Editorial: Supreme Court denies due process rights for some asylum seekers Posted: 26 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT  The Supreme Court ruled that some asylum seekers don't have due process rights, which makes it easier for the Trump administration to eject them.
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| History Hell: These 5 Submarine Accidents Were True Disasters Posted: 27 Jun 2020 04:30 PM PDT  And the Navy won't forget them.
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| George Floyd death: What US police officers think of protests Posted: 26 Jun 2020 04:35 AM PDT  Some think change needs to come from the top, others say they are doing a tough job and under attack.
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| Face Mask Exemption ID Cards Are Going Viral and the Department of Justice Says They're Fake Posted: 27 Jun 2020 09:35 AM PDT  The cards claim the DOJ has cleared individuals from wearing protective face coverings to stem the spread of COVID-19
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| A journalist who covered Trump's Tulsa rally tests positive for COVID-19 Posted: 26 Jun 2020 07:52 PM PDT  A reporter who covered US President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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| Mexican president slammed for saying women should stay at home Posted: 26 Jun 2020 06:49 AM PDT  "The tradition in Mexico is that daughters are the ones who care the most for parents. We men are more detached," Lopez Obrador said.
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| US intercepts Russian warplanes off Alaska Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:43 PM PDT  US warplanes intercepted four Russian reconnaissance aircraft near Alaska on Saturday, US commanders said. The Russian Tu-142's came within 65 nautical miles south of Alaska's Aleutian island chain and "loitered" in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) for eight hours. An ADIZ is a perimeter within which air traffic is monitored by the air forces of one or more friendly countries so they have extra time to react to hostile action.
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