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Jul 15, 2020
The U.S. economy took a major hit at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Will the ongoing outbreak cause an even more dramatic collapse?
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Jul 15, 2020
Even before the CDC called on Tuesday for all Americans to wear masks as a "civic duty," a number of governors were taking matters into their own hands, imposing requirements for face coverings in indoor (and some outdoor) public spaces.
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Jul 15, 2020
The Central Intelligence Agency has conducted a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets since winning a secret victory in 2018 when President Trump signed what amounts to a sweeping authorization for such activities, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Jul 14, 2020
Despite poll numbers that show him trailing Democrat Joe Biden by wide margins, President Trump said at the White House on Tuesday that he's doing better than anyone realizes in his quest for reelection.
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Jul 14, 2020
Confronting a drastic rise in coronavirus cases across the United States, the nation's top public health officials urged all Americans to wear masks in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
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Jul 14, 2020
William Marcus Wilson believed he was standing his ground when he fired at a pickup truck he says was trying to run his car off the road as he drove home with his girlfriend one night last month.
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Jul 14, 2020
With millions of Americans put out of work by the worsening coronavirus pandemic, Ivanka Trump unveiled a new jobs initiative Tuesday titled "Find Something New," which encourages the country's laid off workers to consider alternative career paths.
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Jul 13, 2020
Roger Stone said Monday that President Trump saved his life by commuting his prison sentence and sparing him any time behind bars during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jul 13, 2020
Carlson acknowledged the posts were "wrong," but did not offer an apology on behalf of the show or the network, saying his longtime associate had "paid a very heavy price" in losing his job.
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Jul 13, 2020
Even before the pandemic made it likely that there will be a historic number of mail-in ballots in this fall's election, UC Irvine professor Richard Hasen worried that if it were close, President Trump might declare victory before all votes were counted. That concern is now much greater for Hasen.
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Jul 13, 2020
The president on Monday again sought to redirect blame over his response to the coronavirus pandemic to the previous administration.
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Jul 13, 2020
The president on Monday again sought to redirect blame for his pandemic response to the previous administration.
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Jul 13, 2020
It's a commonly accepted truth that the only way the coronavirus pandemic will come to an end is through the development of an effective vaccine. Is the idea that a vaccine may be right around the corner holding back efforts to contain the virus?
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Jul 13, 2020
Sessions responded to Trump Saturday. Tuberville, after receiving Trump's endorsement, has done little to actively campaign for the seat. "Tuberville has not even run a campaign," Curt Anderson, a Sessions campaign consultant, told Yahoo News. "He is just a vessel for Trump and Trump's ire at Sessions.
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Jul 13, 2020
With the backing of President Trump, former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville faces off against former Attorney General Jeff Sessions Tuesday in a primary runoff for the U.S. Senate in Alabama.
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Jul 13, 2020
Operating with broad authority and minimal oversight, ICE's enforcement and removal operations have become increasingly aggressive under the Trump administration.
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Jul 13, 2020
Weeks before the 2020-21 school year is due to start, plans vary wildly from district to district, with school superintendents across the country scrambling to figure out how to safely educate children during a pandemic and a looming financial crisis.
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Jul 13, 2020
"The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19," wrote Woolery in the message promoted by Trump. It's worldwide and it's overwhelming.
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Jul 13, 2020
President Trump, whose halting leadership in the face of the coronavirus pandemic Americans increasingly question, boasted Monday about his one undisputed success: his ability to command media attention.
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Jul 12, 2020
President Ronald Reagan defined America as a "shining city on a hill," a country that other nations would look to as a model of prosperity and freedom. In light of the coronavirus pandemic and racial reckoning in the U.S., does that vision still hold true?
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Jul 10, 2020
President Trump commuted the prison sentence for Republican operative Roger Stone, who was to begin serving a three-year jail term on Tuesday.
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Jul 10, 2020
The Lincoln Project, which was created by a group of anti-Trump Republican political operatives last December, believes there is a logic to being a metaphorical fly buzzing around the president's head.
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Jul 10, 2020
More than three months after President Trump promised that "America will be fully prepared for any of the future outbreaks," the federal government still has shortfalls of personal protective equipment for health care workers, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.
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Jul 10, 2020
The son of conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Christopher Buckley's new novel "Make Russia Great Again" is a rollicking satire of Donald Trump's White House.
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Jul 10, 2020
Improbably, Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci have managed to get along for months, brought together to fight the coronavirus.
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Jul 10, 2020
The president has been asked three times in the last two weeks to name his top priority items for a second term — and he has struggled to name them.
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Jul 10, 2020
With Florida adding coronavirus infections at the rate of about 10,000 per day, Miami has emerged as one of the most significant coronavirus hot spots in the U.S., according to an internal Trump administration document reviewed by Yahoo News.
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Jul 10, 2020
With lives and billions of dollars at stake several companies are rushing to produce a vaccine for COVID-19.
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Jul 10, 2020
Experts agree that widespread use of masks would help stem the spread of coronavirus. Would a national mask mandate help or would it cause even more controversy?
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Jul 09, 2020
President Trump's re-election bid has had a rough few weeks, with challenges coming from both his stewardship of the presidency and past personal controversies that may be catching up with him. In June, the president's former national security adviser, John Bolton, released a tell all that accused the president of asking Chinese leader Xi Jinping for help with his re-election effort, among other things.
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Jul 09, 2020
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Congress on Thursday he did not know who gave the widely denounced order to clear peaceful antiracism protesters from Lafayette Park, across the White House, early last month.
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Jul 09, 2020
Joe Biden proposed a sweeping plan aimed at boosting U.S. manufacturing on Thursday, the first plank of an economic recovery agenda that his campaign is expected to roll out in the coming weeks. The Biden campaign is calling this economic plan the "Build Back Better Agenda." The campaign says Biden will soon introduce more plans to address caregiving and education, racial equity and clean energy.
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Jul 09, 2020
A surge of gun violence is plaguing several major U.S. cities, adding to the woes of a nation grappling with the coronavirus and civil unrest over the police killing of George Floyd.
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Jul 09, 2020
Just two days after a Florida sheriff announced the state had abruptly cut him off from data about local coronavirus cases, state health authorities have reversed course.
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Jul 09, 2020
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued rulings in two cases involving President Trump's finances, upholding a Manhattan district attorney's demand for his tax returns but keeping a hold on financial records that Congress has been seeking for more than a year.
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Jul 09, 2020
The Trump administration has thrown colleges and universities across the country into confusion this week with the unexpected announcement that international students will have to leave the U.S. if their school does not offer in-person classes during the upcoming semester. In a press release Monday afternoon, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that, under a forthcoming temporary rule, foreign students currently attending a school that plans to operate entirely online during the fall semester will either have to transfer to a different school offering in-person classes, leave the country voluntarily or face possible deportation. In addition, ICE said the State Department "will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester nor will U.S. Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States."
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Jul 09, 2020
As the coronavirus has made its alarming American comeback in recent weeks — with dozens of states across the South and West regularly reporting record numbers of new cases and propelling the nationwide total of new daily infections past 50,000 for the first time — President Trump and others have sought to downplay the disturbing data by reciting a simple refrain: Yes, but what about the deaths?
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Jul 08, 2020
The debate over whether schools should reopen in the fall has reached a new level of urgency as start dates for schools across the country grow closer. Do the benefits of bringing kids back to campus outweigh the health risks?
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Jul 08, 2020
"The First Amendment is there to allow people to say things that are awful," McNamee said on Yahoo's "Skullduggery" podcast. "That's not what we're talking about here."
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Jul 08, 2020
After President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at what he called "impractical" and "expensive" guidelines for reopening schools published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency's director stressed that they are just guidelines, "not requirements."
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Jul 08, 2020
After President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at what he called "impractical" and "expensive" guidelines for reopening schools published by the Centers for Disease Control, the agency's director stressed that they are just guidelines, "not requirements."
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Jul 08, 2020
With coronavirus cases exploding in Florida, the president now says he is "flexible" on plans to hold a large-scale, indoor Republican National Convention next month.
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Jul 07, 2020
The Trump administration deployed some of its top officials — including both the president and vice president — to press school districts to reopen on their regular schedules for in-person instruction.
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Jul 07, 2020
Once the pandemic's epicenter, New York City has finally found a way to flatten the curve, and yet it still leads the country in COVID-19 cases and deaths. Yahoo News honors the lives of those lost during this pandemic and remembers the sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, friends and family of those all around us. These are their stories.
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Jul 07, 2020
Facebook has long refused to be an "arbiter of truth," but under fire from left and right, the company is offering concessions to activists as it braces for new federal regulations.
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Jul 07, 2020
With more tests coming back positive now than ever before — and with infections currently rising in 39 states — lockdowns in some form may be the only way to regain control over the coronavirus.
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Jul 07, 2020
A controversial new tell-all memoir by the president's only niece describes how a dysfunctional family — and a psychologically abusive father — "damaged" his worldview.
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Jul 07, 2020
President Trump touted a new study this week that seemed to back up his belief that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for COVID-19.
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Jul 06, 2020
On Saturday, just four months before the 2020 election, musician, provocateur and former ardent Donald Trump supporter Kanye West tweeted that he was launching his own bid to become president.
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Jul 06, 2020
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Monday that she had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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Jul 06, 2020
Indiana authorities are investigating a report by a Black man who said he was pinned to a tree by a group of white men, an attack he likened to an "attempted lynching."
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Jul 06, 2020
In 1989, five Black and Hispanic teens were falsely accused of raping and nearly killing Trisha Meili, a white woman jogging in Central Park. Known collectively as the Central Park Five, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise were convicted in two trials despite a lack of eyewitness testimony or DNA evidence and spent between six and 13 years in prison. Exonerated in 2002 after an investigation confirmed that a convicted murderer and rapist had committed the crime, the Central Park Five sued the city and state of New York, settling for millions.
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Jul 06, 2020
Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany came to her press briefing on Monday prepared to defend President Trump's assertion that "99 percent" of U.S. coronavirus cases are "totally harmless" with two charts that inadvertently disproved his claim.
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Jul 06, 2020
Call me cynical, but I have a feeling the National Garden of American Heroes announced by President Trump on Friday will never get off — or into — the ground, even if he doesn't put his son-in-law in charge of it. Establishing an official United States Hall of Fame will secure the reputations of Betsy Ross and Benjamin Franklin from the changing political winds, no less than the one in Cooperstown, N.Y., preserves for the ages the memories of Ted Williams and Roberto Clemente.
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Jul 06, 2020
Call me cynical, but I have a feeling the National Garden of American Heroes announced by President Trump on Friday will never get off - or into - the ground, even if he doesn't put his son-in-law in charge of it. Establishing an official United States Hall of Fame will secure the reputations of Betsy Ross and Benjamin Franklin from the changing political winds, no less than the one in Cooperstown preserves for the ages the memories of Ted Williams and Roberto Clemente.
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Jul 06, 2020
In a New York Times op-ed, Lucian K. Truscott IV argued that Monticello is enough of a tribute to the third president.
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Jul 06, 2020
The CDC updated its website to include expectant mothers, particularly Black and Hispanic women, among those who may be at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19.
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Jul 05, 2020
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, a member of the White House coronavirus task force,said he wouldn't "get into who's right and who's wrong" when asked if he agreed with two widely disputed claims President Trump made a day earlier.
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Jul 02, 2020
Rep. Eric Swalwell to the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast: Recent disclosures that the White House failed to act on intelligence showing that Russian operatives were paying bounties to kill American soldiers fully vindicates impeachment.
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Jul 02, 2020
As reopening plans either stall or move forward slowly, the vast majority of states have not been able to drive down their infection rates, according to an internal HHS map obtained by Yahoo News.
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Jul 02, 2020
This Fourth of July, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that no matter how polarized they might be politically, Americans finally seem to agree on one thing: America itself is getting worse.
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Jul 02, 2020
However haltingly and incompletely, the president's favorite news outlet has started to acknowledge that the coronavirus is a far graver threat than even Trump will acknowledge.
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Jul 02, 2020
Maxwell is accused of grooming young girls to perform sex acts on Epstein and his network of high-profile friends.
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Jul 02, 2020
As the United States crossed 50,000 new daily cases, the president repeated a line he's used for months: The virus will just disappear - eventually.
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Jul 02, 2020
CDC officials hope that the agency's marginalization is coming to an end, but a pressing question remains: Can the agency reclaim its voice while avoiding political blowback from the White House?
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Jul 01, 2020
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey told Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday that the state needed an additional 500 health care workers as the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to set records there.
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Jul 01, 2020
The Supreme Court knocked down a Louisiana law that would have limited the number of abortion providers in the state. What does the decision mean for the future of Roe v. Wade?
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Jul 01, 2020
More than 300 people have been arrested in Omaha amid protests against police brutality in the past month. Jake Gardner, who shot and killed James Scurlock, is not one of them.
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Jul 01, 2020
More than 300 people have been arrested in Omaha amid protests against police brutality in the past month. Jake Gardner, who shot and killed James Scurlock, is not one of them.
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Jul 01, 2020
Oklahoma follows Utah, Nebraska, Idaho and Maine as states to approve the Obamacare health insurance expansion for low-income residents.
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Jul 01, 2020
California was supposed to have the coronavirus under control. Eleven other California counties immediately followed suit, and on March 19 Gov. Gavin Newson expanded the rule to cover the entire state — three days before New York implemented a similar order. Mobility plummeted, and as cases and deaths soared elsewhere, the numbers in California remained surprisingly low, never rising to the level expected in America's most populous state.
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Jul 01, 2020
Lauren Boebert, who knocked off five-time incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton in Colorado Tuesday night, is the latest QAnon-friendly candidate to find success in a Republican primary.
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Jul 01, 2020
Yahoo News is a member of the One Free Press Coalition and is publishing the group's latest "10 Most Urgent" list below to highlight the increasingly dangerous climate for journalism and free expression around the world in an effort to roll back repressive anti-press policies.
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Jun 30, 2020
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended the president over reports that Russia offered Taliban fighters a bounty on U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
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Jun 30, 2020
An initiative to provide Americans with free face coverings has run out of supplies, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Jun 30, 2020
An initiative to provide Americans with free face coverings has run out of supplies, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Jun 30, 2020
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh held a press conference call with reporters on Tuesday where he said the president is "eager to return to the campaign trail and to keep campaigning and keep connecting with Americans."
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Jun 30, 2020
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh held a press conference call with reporters on Tuesday where he said the president is "eager to return to the campaign trail and to keep campaigning and keep connecting with Americans." The phone call came just as CNN reported the Trump campaign cancelled plans to hold a rally in Alabama next weekend due to concerns about rising numbers of coronavirus infections. When asked about the CNN report later Tuesday afternoon, Murtaugh said "we don't comment about rally planning."
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Jun 30, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage large swaths of the U.S., leading Republicans and even some right-wing TV personalities have come out in favor of wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Jun 30, 2020
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said President Trump has "surrendered" in the fight against the coronavirus as new cases skyrocket in the U.S. Joe Biden speaks on June 30, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Jun 30, 2020
An internal map from the CDC shows that as many as 32 states are not seeing any decreases in coronavirus cases, and positive lab test results have jumped to nearly 8 percent nationwide.
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Jun 30, 2020
As early as 2016, U.S. intelligence officials were receiving credible reports that the Russian government was funding the Taliban. Now those reports have taken on new relevance.
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Jun 30, 2020
The former fighter pilot leveraged a massive fundraising advantage and absentee votes to survive a challenge from the progressive state senator.
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Jun 30, 2020
Using their expertise in military or intelligence services to compensate for what they see as President Trump's deficient handling of the crisis, national security Democrats have enjoined their Republican counterparts to refocus on the pandemic.
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Jun 30, 2020
Local leaders are rolling back reopenings, issuing mandates for wearing masks and closing down some beaches in advance of the Fourth of July holiday.
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Jun 29, 2020
Once assumed to be safe from the dangers of COVID-19, younger adults share their prolonged struggles with the disease.
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Jun 29, 2020
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Monday that it was a matter of debate within the U.S. intelligence community that a Russian military intelligence unit paid bounties to militants in Afghanistan to attack American troops, and, as a result, President Trump and Vice President Pence were not briefed on the matter.
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Jun 29, 2020
The issue of voter fraud has been studied at length. And those studies have routinely shown that while it's inaccurate to say that voter fraud doesn't exist, it's also wrong to say that it's in any way common.
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Jun 29, 2020
The Trump administration on Monday expressed dismay over the Supreme Court's ruling that struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics.
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Jun 29, 2020
The Supreme Court on Monday found an abortion restriction in Louisiana to be unconstitutional in a ruling that could further damage President Trump's standing with conservatives.
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Jun 29, 2020
Multiple outlets have said the president received briefings about Taliban-aligned militants killing U.S. troops but Trump has denied it.
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Jun 28, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence peeled off his White House-branded mask and smiled at a crowd of thousands Sunday morning. Yet he wasn't technically headlining a political rally — he was at church in a state that has seen a dramatic spike in coronavirus cases.
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Jun 28, 2020
President Trump promoted a video Sunday that featured clashing protesters, one of whom chants, "White power." The video was apparently shot in the Villages, Fla.
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Jun 28, 2020
President Trump promoted a video Sunday that featured clashing protesters, one of whom chants, "White power." The video was apparently shot in the Villages, Fla.
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Jun 27, 2020
Demonstrators in cities across the country have torn down statues honoring historical figures with controversial legacies. Which monuments should remain and which should fall?
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Jun 27, 2020
Calling the recent surge in coronavirus cases in states like Florida, Texas and Arizona "very scary," Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Kavita Patel said she fears the virus will continue to flare up in communities around the country throughout the summer.
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Jun 27, 2020
Only now, nearly a year after his death, is the case of Elijah McClain finally receiving the national attention his family has been seeking.
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Jun 27, 2020
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Jun 26, 2020
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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