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A police officer charged in connection with the death of George Floyd has applied to have his charges dropped, court documents show.Lawyers for Tou Thao, 34, have put forward a motion stating that the former Minneapolis police officer could not have known that Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes, was about to commit a crime. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3geO8WU https://ift.tt/3ffwWz2

The epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States showed signs of shifting to the Midwest on Thursday while Sunbelt states were hopeful that new infections and deaths were starting to decline. The COVID-19 outbreak was moving into Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska "because of vacations and other reasons of travel," Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, told Fox News in an interview. Ohio's health department said the state had seen its highest single-day increase in infections since the pandemic started in January, which Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican, told a news conference was "certainly not good news." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33boH50 https://ift.tt/317LkEw

While visiting his childhood home this month, the presidential candidate kneeled to talk to a child. It's false to say he "took a knee" for the flag. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2X9L9av https://ift.tt/3fd6N3R

President Trump's tweet today is unprecedented, and we have to consider whether the president truly intends to lead us down a dangerous path. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39T9XsR https://ift.tt/39HyIYy

The Philippines' leader doubled down on earlier claims - despite officials saying he was wrong. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/311n7jq https://ift.tt/39JHmWF

Dr. Anthony Fauci warned the governors of four U.S. states that they need to get new infections under control. If they don't, they could experience a situation similar to what has happened to some states in the South that are battling a dramatic new surge in infections. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke to "ABC News" during a 35-minute ... from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hX2s6D https://ift.tt/2DnzvSm

Margot Kagan, who recently had a liver transplant and was walking with a cane, was thrown to the ground by another customer she had told to wear a mask. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DqKdHL https://ift.tt/39LtF9C

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a darling of the US left and an increasingly frail octogenarian, is taking center stage ahead of this year's presidential election, with the Supreme Court's balance hanging on her seemingly faltering health. Ginsburg's liver cancer -- and recent repeat trips to the hospital due to bile duct infection -- has Washington's political class on tenterhooks, with her every medical procedure causing major hand-wringing, not to mention a variety of contingency plans. Ginsburg was hospitalized yet again on Wednesday to "revise a bile duct stent," as her doctors assured the public that such things were "common occurrences." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33b1zDv https://ift.tt/2KUBEXb

Cain was hospitalized with the virus last month after attending a Trump rally two weeks earlier. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jOW4jI https://ift.tt/3jPjq93

A Chicago woman who became the nation's first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant said, "I looked at myself and couldn’t recognize my body." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/316Gtne https://ift.tt/3hY3vUb

"Then we saw the post saying don't plant them. I mean, I'm not scared about it, I'm not worried about it, but I guess people are," Aucoin told WAFB. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3ghA8LQ https://ift.tt/337tO66

All renters are now subject to state laws, and there's a patchwork of eviction policies that vary by state. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Dlkgts https://ift.tt/3gdxlDz

A Texas Republican who tested positive for Covid-19 wrongly suggested he may have contracted the novel coronavirus by wearing a face mask — and said he would be taking an unproven treatment touted by Donald Trump.Louie Gohmert (R—Tx) tested positive on Wednesday during a White House procedural screening just before he was set to fly with the president to Texas on Air Force One. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xf960a https://ift.tt/2XcsbQK

Democrats rejected a short-term extension of a $600 weekly unemployment benefit proposed by the White House on Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jZmhMI https://ift.tt/39MUoCW

“I never cease to be amazed by things the president tweets, but even that one took me by surprise,” Hogan said. “He can’t postpone the election, he doesn’t have the power to do it, and that’s why it’s an outrageous statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30eVPqA https://ift.tt/30hjAhB

In the papers, a key accuser also alleges the pair were equally involved in sex trafficking. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/315yTcu https://ift.tt/30j5RXD

The planes had been dispatched to help battle the Bishop Fire, a 14,000-acre blaze burning on federal land. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33dKmtk https://ift.tt/2XdFaSq

Dr. Anthony Fauci wants to make it clear he's got nothing to do with the justice system.Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared before Congress on Friday for a hearing on the federal government's coronavirus response. That's where Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who's been skeptical of restrictions meant to stem the virus' spread, tried to get Fauci to distinguish between protests against racism in the U.S. and bans on businesses reopening amid the pandemic.Because science indicates crowds exacerbate the spread of coronavirus, Jordan asked Fauci on Friday if the government "should limit the protests." "I'm not in a position to determine what the government should do in a forceful way," Fauci responded. So Jordan kept pressing: "The government is stopping people from going to church," claiming that's something "the five liberals" on the Supreme Court had decided. But Fauci co...

Hawaii's public health director said a rarely used special health order was used to force them into isolation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3fhgz58 https://ift.tt/30YHNbL

* Arrest warrant issued for campaigner and US citizen Samuel Chu * Four other exiles are in Britain wanted for ‘incitement to secession’Hong Kong police have issued arrest warrants for six pro-democracy activists living in exile, the first time the city’s authorities have used a sweeping new law to target campaigners living outside Hong Kong.They include Samuel Chu, an American citizen who lives in the US, Nathan Law, a prominent campaigner who recently relocated to the UK after fleeing Hong Kong, and Simon Cheng, a former British consular staffer who was granted asylum in the UK after alleging he was tortured in China.Chinese state media reported that the six men were wanted for “incitement to secession and collusion with foreign forces”.The move comes a month after China introduced a controversial national security law in Hong Kong. China said the legislation targets the crimes of “secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces” and carries penalties as severe as ...

Minutes after the government announced the worst economic contraction on record, the president upended a day in Washington with his suggestion of delaying the election. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2D6ZuxH https://ift.tt/30igk5v

Opposition candidates had hoped to capitalise on anger over a controversial security law. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hKQwVu https://ift.tt/30ZXhMG

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A Texas Republican who tested positive for Covid-19 wrongly suggested he may have contracted the novel coronavirus by wearing a face mask — and said he would be taking an unproven treatment touted by Donald Trump.Louie Gohmert (R—Tx) tested positive on Wednesday during a White House procedural screening just before he was set to fly with the president to Texas on Air Force One. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xf960a https://ift.tt/2XcsbQK

The all-electric pickup will have 1,000 horsepower and be able to sprint from 0-60 mph in 3 seconds. GMC also teased the Hummer SUV. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jV2n5g https://ift.tt/3feSiwv

The agency said its review of 29 applications to obtain wiretaps on U.S. citizens had only minor, mostly typographical errors. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hQy5Pq https://ift.tt/32Nl98H

A lawyer for Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, accused a British newspaper publisher in court on Wednesday of commercially exploiting its legal dispute with her by using court documents as the basis for "sensational" coverage. Meghan, wife of Queen Elizabeth's grandson Prince Harry, is suing Associated Newspapers over articles in the Mail on Sunday in February 2019 that included parts of a handwritten letter she sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018. Increasingly hostile relations between the royal couple and some British newspapers they accused of intrusive, inaccurate and sometimes racist coverage was one of the reasons why Harry and Meghan left Britain for the United States. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jTgdFl https://ift.tt/2X9kgnr

Joe Biden's vice presidential pick has been one of Washington's best kept secrets but a supposedly accidental news publication and Biden's own teasingly displayed notes are raising expectations that the winner is Kamala Harris. Speculation over the choice of VP is a parlor game played every four years in Washington, but this time the stakes are unusually high. Biden would be 78 on taking office -- the oldest US president ever -- and he has hinted that he might not seek a second term, making his deputy the prime candidate to take on the party's nomination. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30SJebq https://ift.tt/3i0WCl5

Kayleigh McEnany had a difficult job even before her boss started retweeting conspiracy theories from a fringe doctor who blames demon sperm and alien DNA for America’s health problems. CBS This Morning co-host Anthony Mason wasted no time getting to that particular story when he invited the White House press secretary on his show Wednesday morning. “Why is the president pushing hydroxychloroquine again when his own health experts say it’s not effective in treating the virus?” he asked. McEnany began by explaining that, despite science to the contrary, Trump has a “positive outlook” on the drug’s potential as a “prophylaxis in the early stages.” The president famously told the press he was taking hydroxychloroquine two months into the pandemic because he had “heard a lot of good stories” about it. “He wants to save lives, that is his goal here,” she added. “That is why he’s promoting this drug as a prophylaxis but only in consultation with your doctor.” Kayleigh McEn...

Buddy first showed symptoms in mid-April, right before his 7th birthday. He was struggling to breathe, lost weight and became increasingly lethargic. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2X9zsks https://ift.tt/3hQfJxV

A 30-year veteran of the Chicago police force is found dead two weeks after being promoted; Matt Finn reports from Chicago as the city marks another deadly night of violence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2CYby4g https://ift.tt/3faFoj6

The United States is criticizing a number of eastern and central European nations, including Poland, for failing to compensate Holocaust victims and their families and communities for property seized during Nazi occupation in World War II as the numbers of survivors dwindles due to age. In a report issued Wednesday, the State Department called out Bosnia, Belarus, Ukraine and particularly Poland for not having acted on restitution claims. Croatia, Latvia and Russia were also taken to task in the report, which is likely to draw angry responses from the governments identified. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30aizb5 https://ift.tt/2BFGVQy

Trump was expected to attend the fundraiser with GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert, but the congressman tested positive for the coronavirus. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30YNK8x https://ift.tt/310wzTV

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they launched ballistic missiles from "the depths of the Earth" on Wednesday during the last day of military exercises near sensitive Gulf waters. The launches came a day after the Guards struck a mock-up of a US aircraft carrier with volleys of missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of world oil output. The Iranian manoeuvres were staged amid heightened tensions between Iran and its decades-old arch enemy the United States. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39HeBtB https://ift.tt/3hZxJpV

While the vast majority of public health experts now agree that wearing face masks could halt the worsening coronavirus pandemic in its tracks, some Americans continue to resist that guidance. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3f7zf7v https://ift.tt/3geplSL

We should thank Donald Trump for skipping Congressman John Lewis' farewell ceremony. While his absence from the memorial in the Capitol rotunda on Monday was glaring, Trump did us all a favor by leaving town. To pay respects to a man for whom he showed so little regard in life would be disingenuous. Trump might be a liar, but at least he is no hypocrite. Unlike Senate Majority Leader Mitch ... from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3f9hCEb https://ift.tt/3hN4aYh

A new survey has found more evidence to suggest that people can become infected with COVID-19 through aerosol transmission, which could be prevented by wearing a mask. Carried out by data scientists in the UK, Norway, and the US, the study is one of the first to investigate which personal and work-related factors can lead to COVID-19 transmission. After surveying 2,000 people in the UK and US, the researchers found that the data from both countries suggests that aerosol transmission of the virus -- via microdroplets which are so small that they remain suspended in the air for several hours -- is very likely. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39EGDWy https://ift.tt/30azR7Q

In his opening set of questions to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, David Cicilline revealed what the year-long investigation had found. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/334VEzS https://ift.tt/2D2YBpT

Hawaii's public health director said a rarely used special health order was used to force them into isolation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3fhgz58 https://ift.tt/30YHNbL

China's new "national security" legislation​, which came into force in Hong Kong on July 1, outlaws a variety of vaguely defined offenses like "sedition" that can carry sentences of life in prison. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PeKdxb https://ift.tt/39HhlY3

Former Vice President Joe Biden is still looking good in key swing states across the country.In May, a poll from a British consulting firm Redfield & Wilton Strategies put Biden ahead of President Trump in six states Trump won in 2016: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Redfield & Wilton Strategies' July poll shows Biden still has a lead in all of those states, and even widened it in three of them.While Biden had 4 percent lead over Trump in Arizona, a 2 point lead in Florida, and an 8 point lead in Michigan in May, he has an 8, 7, and 12 percent lead, respectively, in those states as of July. Biden maintained his 10-point lead in Wisconsin over the past two months. Meanwhile Biden lost traction in North Carolina, where he had a 45-43 lead over Trump in May but has a 43-42 lead as of July, and Pennsylvania, where his margin fell from 48-39 to 48-41.Redfield & Wilton surveyed anywhere from 742 to 1,121 registered voters in each of th...

West Allis Police Department Chief Patrick Mitchell joins 'Fox & Friends' after backing out of a DNC security agreement over a ban on law enforcement's use of chemical irritants during protests. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hK3Sl4 https://ift.tt/30eBwtm

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The amount the president put on the table is even higher than that proposed by Republicans and Democrats. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3gixuFO https://ift.tt/2XbHSrq

The FBI said on Thursday that the errors and sloppy record-keeping identified in connection with 29 of its applications submitted to a federal court to obtain wiretaps to monitor U.S. citizens were "non-material" and did not undermine their legal validity. The FBI's statement on Thursday came several months after Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released an audit faulting the FBI for failing to follow procedures designed to minimize factual inaccuracies in applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2EqpIeT https://ift.tt/2DkxlDj

An art expert has pinpointed the exact spot where Vincent van Gogh was painting just hours before he shot himself, museum officials announced on Tuesday at a ceremony commemorating the 130th anniversary of his suicide. The picture, Tree Roots, was identified as the Dutch post-impressionist painter’s last work a few years ago. Now, an early postcard has made it possible to locate the scene it depicts in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village north of Paris. Willem van Gogh, the great-grandson of the artist’s brother Theo, and Emilie Gordenker, director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, unveiled a plaque at the spot, which will soon be opened to the public. It is a short walk from the Auberge Ravoux, the former inn where Van Gogh spent his last 70 days before dying in his garret room on 29 July 1890. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39AAMBQ https://ift.tt/3fhGKJa

A Tennessee state senator has been charged with stealing more than $600,000 in federal funds received by a health care company she directed and using the money to pay for her wedding and other personal expenses, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. A criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday charges state Sen. Katrina Robinson with theft and embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said in a news release. Robinson, a Democrat elected to the General Assembly in 2018 from a Memphis district, is also the director of The Healthcare Institute, which provides training for jobs in the health care field, prosecutors said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hUvO5X https://ift.tt/3gfi8BV

A 2012 exchange between Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom and investor Matt Cohler provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a startup founder. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2D0lMBj https://ift.tt/2P9JWeZ

Kayleigh McEnany had a difficult job even before her boss started retweeting conspiracy theories from a fringe doctor who blames demon sperm and alien DNA for America’s health problems. CBS This Morning co-host Anthony Mason wasted no time getting to that particular story when he invited the White House press secretary on his show Wednesday morning. “Why is the president pushing hydroxychloroquine again when his own health experts say it’s not effective in treating the virus?” he asked. McEnany began by explaining that, despite science to the contrary, Trump has a “positive outlook” on the drug’s potential as a “prophylaxis in the early stages.” The president famously told the press he was taking hydroxychloroquine two months into the pandemic because he had “heard a lot of good stories” about it. “He wants to save lives, that is his goal here,” she added. “That is why he’s promoting this drug as a prophylaxis but only in consultation with your doctor.” Kayleigh McEn...

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and his campaign team are playing it cool for now even as some Democrats are calling for bolstered efforts to potentially win in Georgia and Texas. But it doesn't sound like the latter will ever get much consideration, The Washington Post reports."Texas is 22 [expletive] media markets," one Biden adviser told the Post. "That is never going to happen. It's just not going to happen. Everyone knows that. I don't know why people are still even talking about it."Georgia, though, has more potential to be flipped blue, and the adviser admitted the campaign will eventually have to make a decision on whether to invest resources there. "Georgia is real," the adviser said.Still, the adviser said that choice won't be made until "we feel really comfortable about the six core states" — Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina, and Florida — addin...

Hackers linked to the Chinese government have infiltrated Vatican computer networks, including the Roman Catholic Church's Hong Kong-based representative, a U.S. firm that tracks state-backed cyber attacks said on Wednesday . It said the attacks began in May. The Vatican and Beijing were expected to engage in talks this year over the renewal of a landmark 2018 deal that stabilised relations between China and the Church. U.S. cybersecurity firm Recorded Future said in the report that the attacks targeted the Vatican and the Catholic diocese of Hong Kong, including the head of the Hong Kong Study Mission, who is seen as Pope Francis' de facto representative to China. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30YY54o https://ift.tt/334IhQ5

Those arrested include Tony Chung, the ex-leader of a group that called for Hong Kong independence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2P4atdB https://ift.tt/2X87Iws