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Chris Christie says it is time for GOP to 'face the realities of the 2020 election'

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday urged Republicans "to face the realities of the 2020 election and learn, not hide from them," as he lobbed several thinly veiled criticisms at his one-time ally, former President Donald Trump. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3tHdOmJ

Taiwan could become the next flashpoint in the global tech war

The world is becoming increasingly dependent on a Taiwanese company for the most advanced semiconductors, after a stumble by rival Intel. But TSMC is trying to pull off a high-wire act by keeping both China and the United States happy at a time of rapidly escalating geopolitical tensions. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2DmrxsP

Beyoncé's visual album 'Black Is King' is a feast for the eyes

There are many quotable lines and lyrics in "Black Is King," Beyoncé's new visual album, which dropped today on Disney+. But two in particular seem especially apt to describe the stylistic feast the artist has created. The first comes three minutes in: "Let Black be synonymous with joy." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/30h7G7o

Joe Biden narrows down his VP list, and a dark-horse candidate emerges

Joe Biden heads into the weekend weighing the biggest decision of his presidential campaign so far, and people close to the process tell CNN that the former vice president is believed to have now begun to narrow his personal shortlist of potential running mates to a handful of women. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3fnTPRe

The US economy is teetering on the brink of disaster, and the Senate adjourned for the weekend

The unemployment benefit that has kept millions afloat amid the worst economic crisis in decades officially expires at midnight. Weekly jobless claims continue to rise. Economic forecasters are warning of another slowdown. The coronavirus has resurged across the country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3hVrsLO

Washington Post: USPS workers sound alarm about new policies that may affect 2020 mail-in voting

Postal workers and union leaders are worried that new, recently implemented procedures -- which have led to delays across the country in mail delivery -- could impact mail-in voting for the November election, according to a Washington Post report. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2D56TO8

Tech titans had their day before Congress. Does anything come next?

For nearly six hours on Wednesday, House lawmakers peppered the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google with questions about their business practices, in the most anticipated antitrust hearing of its kind since Bill Gates defended Microsoft before Congress in 1998. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3ghWEV6

Twitter says high-profile hack was the result of a phishing attack

Twitter said Thursday night that it has "significantly limited" access to its internal tools after it learned that the high-profile hack earlier this month affecting dozens of major accounts was the result of a phishing attack targeting the phones of a "small number of employees." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2XcDoAC

Pompeo covers for Trump claims at Congress

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the first time in more than a year, was grilled by lawmakers on events that ranged from President Donald Trump's apparent threats against a US diplomat in 2019 to Trump's suggestion just minutes after the hearing began that November's elections be delayed. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/30Y359k

Ex-Marine jailed for 9 years by Russian court. US envoy says trial was 'theater of the absurd'

A Moscow court sentenced former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed to nine years in prison Thursday for endangering "life and health" of Russian police officers in an altercation, state-run news agency TASS reported -- a sentence that drew swift condemnation from the top US diplomat in Russia. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3gdfIUk

Inside Brazil's cult of hydroxychloroquine

The police cavalry horses pranced through red dust towards an open grave nobody expected would be dug for Sgt. Jonas Mendonça. The 58-year-old military policeman was slightly overweight but otherwise healthy, his family says, when he got mild Covid-19 symptoms. Four days later, a fierce fever hit and he was hospitalized. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3gcyziu

Myntra enters Middle East market

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Activists urge big brands to eradicate traces of human rights abuse in Xinjiang from their supply chains

Global businesses are facing mounting pressure from activist groups and the US government to reexamine and cut any ties they might have to China's Xinjiang region, where allegations of human rights violations have run rampant for years. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3feNBTH

How Tom Cotton accidentally told an appalling truth

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas probably thought he was being clever when he accidentally said the quiet part aloud to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for an article that ran Sunday -- he said that slavery was a necessary evil to ensure the creation of the United States of America. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3hKIMDg

Joe Biden could still lose this election

The picture of every Yankee and National player kneeling for the national anthem on the long-delayed opening day of baseball highlighted just how badly President Donald Trump is losing the culture war, a war he started as his only path to getting reelected. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3g7IPbD

Why the national security adviser's Covid-19 infection is a national security problem

With coronavirus casualties at sickening levels, Americans learned on Monday that no one is safe from Covid-19 -- not even the man who's supposed to be keeping Americans safe. News that US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien has tested positive for the virus presents an immediate health risk within the walls of the White House while serving as a worrisome metaphor for the administration's coronavirus crisis management more generally. If the government couldn't keep a top-ranking official like O'Brien healthy, that doesn't instill confidence it can do the same for us. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3hM0rtV

Trump revises lawsuit to block release of tax records after Supreme Court ruling

President Donald Trump filed an amended complaint Monday in New York federal court to argue that the Manhattan district attorney's subpoena for his financial records is "wildly overbroad" and was issued in "bad faith" -- his latest attempt to block access to such records as part of a criminal inquiry. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/39yu7rG

Republican Senator calls slavery a 'necessary evil'

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas described slavery as a "necessary evil" in his ongoing effort to prevent US schools from teaching the 1619 Project, an initiative from The New York Times that reframes American history around the date of August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on America's shores. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3g63ZHc

Scenes you don't expect to see in America

Heavily armed, unidentifiable security agents dressed in camouflage have been snatching anti-racism protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon, and bundling them into unmarked cars, with no clear justification. They're scenes you might expect to see in authoritarian countries, not in America.  from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/39swA73

Welcome to the real world, Mr. President

President Donald Trump gave in to the realities of Covid-19 when he canceled the plan to hold portions of the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. Trump had insisted on moving some of the festivities to Florida after North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper highlighted the dangers of hosting a major event during a pandemic. Now, with the surging virus ravaging the Sunshine State, the President is resigned to sticking to the original location and holding a pared-back convention in Charlotte. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2WTzZH6

The pandemic's unlikely pet: Chickens

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the food supply in America was in question. Images of barren grocery store shelves, cleared out meat sections and empty freezer aisles littered the internet. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/39qitiy

Scotland's Covid-19 approach is fueling independence movement

Boris Johnson's first trip to Scotland since becoming prime minister was intended as an effort to shore up Union ties. But many Scots approve of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's cautious approach to the coronavirus pandemic, which could have implications for Scotland's independence movement. Nic Robertson reports. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3jDNZys

See inside Turkey's Hagia Sophia

The Hagia Sophia will hold Friday prayers for the first time in more than 80 years after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered its conversion into a mosque. A Turkish court annulled the 1934 presidential decree which made it a museum. CNN's Arwa Damon reports. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3jEPU5U

US confirms fighter jet flew close to Iranian passenger plane for inspection

The US military on Thursday confirmed that one of its fighter jets had flown within a few thousand feet of an Iranian commercial aircraft over Syria to "inspect it," after Iranian state media released videos showing apparently shaken and injured passengers. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/39odQFB

World will have 710M tons of plastic pollution by 2040 despite efforts to cut waste, study says

If the world embarked on an immediate and globally-coordinated effort to reduce our plastic consumption, there would still be an estimated 710 million metric tons of plastic that will pollute the environment by 2040, new research has found. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3eV6haK

Trump joins Republicans who are criticizing Liz Cheney

President Donald Trump on Thursday joined Republicans who are publicly criticizing GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who has broken with the President in regard to American military engagement overseas and support for Dr. Anthony Fauci during the coronavirus pandemic. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3fXmPQS

View: Silver's overlooked rally may put gold in the shade

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US and UK changing diplomatic immunity rules after envoy killed 19-year-old in car crash

The UK government says it has reached a deal with the United States to change the diplomatic immunity rules that meant an American woman charged with causing the death of a British teenager in a road accident has not had to return to face trial. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2ZQrWMT

Murder of men's rights activist linked to suspected shooter of federal judge's family, FBI confirms

Authorities have evidence linking Roy Den Hollander, the men's rights attorney suspected of shooting a federal judge's family on Sunday, to the murder of another men's rights activist in California last week, FBI Newark spokeswoman Doreen Holder confirmed. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3fUTQNi

Twitter tries to crack down on QAnon, three years too late

Almost three years after a conspiracy theory known as QAnon began spreading on dark corners of the internet, pushing unfounded claims about a so-called "deep state" and prompting concerns about targeted harassment, social media platforms are finally looking to do something about it. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3jvvsEs

Alleged middleman in Malta journalist's murder in critical condition with knife wounds

A taxi driver accused of being a middleman in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is in "critical condition" in a hospital in Malta, after suffering knife injuries late on Tuesday evening, a spokesperson for Malta Police told CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3eQypf2

Pandemic has taught this diversity head discipline

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Trump's 'law and order' is starting to look like martial law

The strange and frightening images of unidentified military-looking men taking protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon, and into unmarked vans may be headed to a city near you if that city is, as President Donald Trump declared Monday, run by "liberal Democrats." from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2BlZmd2

Republican leaders vow to fill a potential Supreme Court vacancy this year, despite some apprehension

Senate Republican leaders, undeterred by the scathing criticism leveled against them for blocking President Barack Obama's election-year Supreme Court nominee in 2016, are signaling that they are prepared to confirm a nominee by President Donald Trump even if that vacancy occurred after this year's election. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/30sWiV2

The AN-225: How the Cold War created the world's largest airplane

The first powered plane flight, performed by the Wright Brothers over the windswept beach of North Carolina's Kitty Hawk in 1903, covered 120 feet. That historic flight would fit entirely in the cargo hold of the Antonov AN-225 Mriya, the world's biggest fully operational plane. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2WGJ7OZ

Dominique Fung upends the objectification of Asian women in surreal paintings

In Dominique Fung's paintings, baby blue hues dance with pastel pinks to create, at first glance, playful fantasies with Asian motifs. Like the works of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Fung's scenes entice with nude women reclining among porcelain vessels. However, closer inspection reveals stray knives, impaled fruit and dismembered limbs; the mirage dematerializes. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2CsMlPk

This is the best way to honor John Lewis' legacy

There is a bridge in Selma, Alabama, where the 25-year-old John Lewis nearly died during the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" march. This bridge, named after Edmund Pettus -- a Confederate general and leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan -- spans the reality of America's racist foundations and the dream of a just country. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/32yWDbs

Lawsuit claims Breonna Taylor lived for '5 to 6 minutes' after being shot

Breonna Taylor was briefly alive for "five to six minutes" after being shot, according to a claim made in a lawsuit filed by Taylor's mother against Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan Mattingly, the three Louisville Metro Police Department officers identified in connection to her death. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2OEo2AA

NYPD commissioner offers scathing rebuke of lawmakers critical of officers and pushing for reforms

The leader of the New York Police Department offered a scathing rebuke of lawmakers who have been critical of officers and pushed for reforms during a closed-door speech at the department's weekly crime stats briefing, according to a video recording of the remarks obtained by CNN. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3eK02Xb

Covid-19 has exposed India's failure to deliver even the most basic obligations to its people

Days before India lifted its nationwide lockdown on June 1, the country's health ministry issued a press statement with a triumphant headline. "15 countries with highest number of Covid-19 cases, with almost same population as India, have reported 34 times cases and 83 times deaths as reported in India," it said. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3fLcdEC

Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dead at 80

John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a six-month battle with cancer. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/30rfFO0

Chinese TikTok clones vying to click with Indians, three now in Google Play Store's top 10 list

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Kirana stores going online face familiar tax woes

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A hospital owner in Bangladesh allegedly scammed patients out of $350,000 using fake Covid-19 tests. Then he tried to flee the country

A hospital owner in Bangladesh was arrested Thursday on charges of fraud, after allegedly issuing thousands of fake Covid-19 test results to deceive patients out of an estimated $350,000, in a wide-ranging scam that has shaken confidence in the country's medical establishment. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3fys0GJ

Why the Trump administration's win over Huawei could be bad news for TikTok

A week after saying his administration was "looking at" banning short-form video app TikTok in the United States, President Donald Trump claimed credit for personally thwarting the expansion plans of another Chinese-affiliated technology company: Huawei. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/30eyunI

Drug overdose deaths jump in 2019 to nearly 71,000, a record high

Drug overdose deaths in the United States jumped last year by a projected 4.8%, wiping out a slight decline in 2018 and setting a new record high, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/30j4VBv

America's secret weapon against a plummeting world population

The only way the United States can remain the world's most prosperous, powerful country is by embracing immigration. That's the inescapable conclusion from a new study published on Tuesday in the Lancet that predicts the world's population will peak far sooner than anticipated, and start shrinking before the end of this century. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2OpOP3g

This may be a test for the Tokyo Olympics

For the first time this season, up to 5,000 fans are allowed to enter Japan's professional baseball stadiums - but will have to adhere to a long list of virus prevention measures. The game will give viewers a glimpse into what the Olympics could look like with the half-capacity, social distanced stadium. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2AZSoKo

Trump will further challenge subpoena for his tax records

Lawyers for President Donald Trump said Wednesday they will raise additional challenges to the Manhattan district attorney's subpoena for his financial records after the Supreme Court ruled a president does not have broad immunity against a state grand jury investigation. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/32lsagQ

Andrew Cuomo's nutty and smug Covid poster

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a skilled political leader, made a rare misstep by releasing a strange, quirky poster depicting his personal thoughts about how New York fought through its worst and deadliest days (so far) of the Covid-19 crisis. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2DLdX2s

Western powers are getting bolder on China

Chinese President Xi Jinping surprised the world with a speech at Davos in 2017, defending free trade and joint action on climate change as then US president-elect Donald Trump argued for precisely the opposite. It might have been an overambitious pitch by Xi to position China as the world's next leader, but it also seemed a genuine sign that Beijing was committing to the international rules-based order.  from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2AYu4Zo

600,000 people voted in Hong Kong. China says they may have broken the law

A primary election held by Hong Kong's democratic opposition may have been illegal under the new security law, China said Monday, in a statement that shows how far the goalposts have moved just two weeks after the sweeping legislation was imposed on the city. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2Wi7Xof

Did the Queen order the removal of this Australian Prime Minister in 1975?

Queen Elizabeth II was not forewarned of the 1975 removal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by then Governor-General John Kerr, according to classified papers released Tuesday, which reveal new details about the country's biggest constitutional crisis. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2WeDVBW

Delayed use of US law leads to ongoing shortages of protective gear

Nearly four months after invoking a 1950s-era law in order to compel businesses to manufacture equipment for the fight against the coronavirus, the Trump administration has made only sparing use of its authorities, leaving front-line workers in dire need of supplies like masks, gowns and gloves amid the recent surge in cases. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/38S7Zbz

Mueller wanted to speak out against Trump and Barr's attacks for weeks, sources say

Former special counsel Robert Mueller chose to break his silence and defend his investigation this weekend after weeks of contemplating doing so, in part because an inflammatory and factually incorrect White House statement attacked his prosecution of President Donald Trump's ally Roger Stone, according to multiple sources familiar with the Mueller team. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2BZNTjL

What Mary Trump's tell-all says about Trump's psyche

Brian Stelter quotes from the new book by President Trump's niece Mary, a clinical psychologist, who offers several possible explanations for the president's conduct. Tony Schwartz argues that "the press has abdicated a role that is absolutely critical right now" by tip-toeing around concerns about the president's fitness for office. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2DxdP6t

Texas is a swing state in 2020, new polls reveal

New CBS News/YouGov polls show President Donald Trump is in trouble in three states he won in 2016. He's tied with former Vice President Joe Biden in Arizona (46% to 46%), a state he won by four points in 2016. Trump's down 48% to 42% in Florida, a state he took by a point in 2016. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/38PYslp

New York should prosecute Roger Stone

To almost no one's surprise, days before Roger Stone's prison sentence was about to begin, President Donald Trump has spared his long-time political crony from the pen — late Friday, Mr. Trump commuted Stone's sentence. It is time for New York prosecutors to answer this latest assault by Trump on the rule of law: They should ready a state prosecution of Stone. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/307QaBa

Why the dumb mask debate isn't over

With just 114 days until the 2020 election, it will be here before you know it. Every Sunday, I will outline the 5 BIG storylines you need to know to understand the upcoming week on the campaign trail. And they're ranked -- so the No. 1 story is the most important of the coming week. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/3iXT18D

Mueller defends Stone prosecution and says 'his conviction stands' in Washington Post op-ed

Former special counsel Robert Mueller, in a very rare move, has written an op-ed for The Washington Post defending his office's prosecution of Roger Stone and saying he is still a convicted felon and "rightly so" in light of President Donald Trump's commutation of Stone. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/38KMfhK

Trump chooses distraction politics over leadership

President Donald Trump headed into the hot zone of Miami-Dade County, Florida, on Friday intent on creating an alternate reality as the coronavirus ravages the United States. He wore no mask, showed no sense of remorse about the rushed reopening that has plunged the nation's health care system back into chaos, and barely mentioned the virus. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/38MoRAe

Valentina Sampaio becomes Sports Illustrated's first trans model

She is no stranger to making history. In 2017 she became the first trans woman to appear on the cover of Vogue Paris. Two years later, she was the first openly transgender model to be hired by Victoria's Secret. Now in 2020, 23-year-old Valentina Sampaio continues to break barriers in the modeling industry by becoming the first trans woman to be featured by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2Zkft3G

Trump confirms US conducted cyberattack against Russia in 2018

President Donald Trump, for the first time, confirmed the US conducted a covert cyberattack in 2018 against Russia's Internet Research Agency. The Internet Research Agency is a troll farm blamed by the US for helping to facilitate interference both in the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 midterms. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2ZR0Pju

A new world war over technology

Nations and companies around the world are being sucked into a running battle over the future of technology between the United States and China, forcing them to choose sides in a conflict that is fracturing global supply chains and pushing businesses out of lucrative markets. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/38NyheM

WHO chief blasts 'lack of leadership' and calls for global unity as coronavirus cases mount worldwide

The director-general of the World Health Organization has condemned a "lack of leadership" in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and made an emotional plea for global unity, as cases soar in multiple countries and the world struggles to contain the devastating virus more than six months after it was first identified. from CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition https://ift.tt/2VZrMR9

What is TakaTak? Know all about it

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