| People of color account for majority of coronavirus infections, new CDC study says Posted: 16 Jun 2020 02:48 PM PDT  African-Americans and Latinos are vastly overrepresented when it comes to coronavirus infections, according to an analysis released by the Centers for Disease Control on Monday morning.
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| Trump on coronavirus: 'If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.' Why he's dangerously wrong. Posted: 16 Jun 2020 06:06 AM PDT  Florida has certainly been finding more cases. On June 1, Florida's seven-day average stood at 726 cases per day. As of June 15, it had more than doubled to 1,775. However, Florida has been conducting roughly the same average number of COVID-19 tests every day for the last month.
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| At least 20 Indian soldiers killed in hand-to-hand fighting on Chinese border Posted: 16 Jun 2020 12:37 AM PDT  Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in violent hand-to-hand clashes with Chinese troops on the disputed border in the Himalayas late on Monday as the threat of a full-blown war flared. The soldiers died after intense fighting in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh where there has been a tense stand-off for more than a month, and were the first at the disputed border in 45 years. The Indian army confirmed the higher total late last night after initially saying only three had died, including a colonel, and India blamed China for starting the fighting. Indian media reports suggested five Chinese troops had been killed, and eleven injured, cited later by a senior reporter for Chinese state newspaper Global Times in a post online, but that remained unconfirmed. Her editor at the state outlet, Hu Xijin, wrote on Twitter: "Based on what I know, Chinese side also suffered casualties in the Galwan Valley physical clash. I want to tell the Indian side, don't be arrogant and misread China's restraint as being weak. China doesn't want to have a clash with India, but we don't fear it." They are the first casualties to be suffered by either Asian superpower along their 3,488km border since 1975. Chinese and Indian troops typically do not carry weapons on the Line of Actual Control, in an attempt to avoid fatalities or diplomatic escalation of tensions, and it is understood these clashes were with stones and batons. India and China have been facing-off for over a month in Ladakh in Kashmir after Chinese troops crossed the so-called Line of Actual Control on May 5 and 6 to occupy over 60 kilometres of Indian territory at four locations - Pangong Tso, Galwan River, Demchok and Hot Springs. The Indian foreign ministry released a statement blaming China for the fatalities: "The Chinese side departed from the consensus to respect the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Galwan Valley. On the late evening and night of 15th June, 2020 a violent face-off happened as a result of an attempt by the Chinese side to unilaterally change the status quo there. Both sides suffered casualties that could have been avoided had the agreement at the higher level been scrupulously followed by the Chinese side." A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said that its troops had acted in self-defence after two Indian soldiers had crossed into Chinese territory on Monday: "provoking and attacking Chinese personnel, resulting in serious physical confrontation between border forces on the two sides." It added that it had "solemnly demanded that the Indian side strictly restrain the frontline troops" and "maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas". An unnamed Indian officer has told Agence France Presse that no gunshots were fired and the fatalities were the result of "violent hand-to-hand scuffles". A former Indian Army officer told the Telegraph that contrasting statements from either side meant it was difficult to establish who was to blame at this stage. "The Chinese side is issuing aggressive statements and the Indian side has taken a defensive position," he said. "How these soldiers have been killed we have no idea because there are contradicting statements coming out. However, we can say the aggressive tone suggests China won't retreat and defensive tune means India doesn't want any escalation. They [People's Liberation Army] are aggressive, they won't retreat." The Indian Army has said talks between the two militaries are underway to defuse tensions and it will hold a press conference later today. Last week, the Telegraph revealed that at least 12,000 Chinese troops had occupied 60 square kilometres of Indian-administered Ladakh, in response to India's ever-closer relationship with the United States. The Chinese forces were able to cross the border and annexe unprotected territory after India had failed to recommence patrols due to the coronavirus outbreak. India and China fought the Sino-India war and agreed a ceasefire in 1962, establishing a Line of Actual Control which separates Indian-controlled Ladakh from Chinese-controlled Tibet. For decades, it has been an uneasy truce and troops from either side have sporadically engaged in fist-fights with one another.
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| Nine People Shot in Minneapolis Amid Spate of Violence following George Floyd Killing Posted: 17 Jun 2020 04:35 PM PDT  Nine people were shot in Minneapolis on Tuesday evening amid a spate of violence following the death of George Floyd during arrest, the Star Tribune reported.Shootings have risen sharply in the city over three weeks of unrest after Floyd, an African American man, was killed during arrest by Minneapolis police officers. Since May 26, 66 people have been shot in the city, comprising 45 percent of all shooting victims in Minneapolis for this year.The Tuesday shootings follow an incident on Sunday in which seven people were shot during a bar fight. One of the victims of the bar shooting has since died. No arrests have been made in any of the recent shootings.It does not appear that the shootings are connected to protests over Floyd's death. Those protests turned violent in some instances, with rioters setting fire to Minneapolis's third police precinct building as well as numerous businesses.The Minneapolis City Council has estimated that damages to buildings from the riots amount to at least $55 million. However, the council warned that the damages could be much higher, and Mayor Jacob Frey has said damages could reach "hundreds of millions of dollars."Floyd's death has driven calls by Black Lives Matter activists to defund police departments. Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), whose district encompasses Minneapolis, has supported calls to defund the Minneapolis police, calling the department "beyond repair." Mayor Frey has resisted the push to dismantle the city's police department, although the Minneapolis City Council has signed a pledge to dismantle the department.
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| NYPD officers hospitalised after drinking milkshakes ‘spiked with bleach’ Posted: 16 Jun 2020 01:57 AM PDT  Three New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were hospitalised after consuming milkshakes believed to contain bleach.The shakes, which were purchased at a Manhattan Shake Shack branch on Monday night, may have been spiked with bleach, New York's largest police union said.
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| Mexico president: Killing of federal judge will be punished Posted: 17 Jun 2020 07:34 AM PDT  Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that those responsible for the murders of a federal judge and his wife in the western state of Colima will be punished, and a senior official said the judge was apparently killed because of his work. López Obrador said there will not be impunity for the killings of District Court Judge Uriel Villegas Ortiz and his wife, Verónica Barajas. Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero said that she knew Villegas personally and that his murder was particularly difficult for her.
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| Family of Dreasjon Reed, Black Man Killed by Indianapolis Police Officer, File Lawsuit Against City's Police Department Posted: 16 Jun 2020 02:45 PM PDT  The lawsuit says that the Indianapolis police department did not correctly train officers on how to engage with civilians
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| 'Inaccurate and harmful': Texas Senators Cruz, Cornyn dismiss notions of systemic racism in police and society Posted: 16 Jun 2020 07:22 PM PDT  Speaking during a Senate Judiciary hearing about police violence, both the Senators dismissed the idea of systemic racism.
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| Taiwan jets 'drive away' intruding Chinese fighter plane, third intrusion in days Posted: 16 Jun 2020 01:23 AM PDT  Taiwan air force jets "drove away" a Chinese fighter plane that briefly entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, reporting the third intrusion in a week. The single J-10 fighter was given radio warnings to leave before the Taiwanese air force jets ushered the intruder out of the airspace southwest of the island, the ministry said. On Tuesday last week, the ministry said several Su-30 fighters, some of China's most advanced jets, crossed into the same airspace and were also warned to leave.
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| Pence says another venue is being considered for Trump’s Tulsa rally because of many requests to attend Posted: 16 Jun 2020 09:48 AM PDT  On "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning, Vice President Mike Pence said another venue is being considered for President Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., because of the overwhelming response to the event. After the interview, Ali Pardo, deputy communications director for the Trump campaign, clarified Pence's remarks, saying the rally will remain at the BOK Center in Tulsa, but that the campaign is "also considering other areas adjacent to the arena to allow the president to address even more people."
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| Moon Jae-in Is Getting Tired of North Korea's Growing Aggression Posted: 17 Jun 2020 11:38 AM PDT  President Moon Jae-in is tired of taking abuse from the North—and he's starting to lose his patience.
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| A Black pastor was arrested after pulling out a gun while under attack. The sheriff apologized, and now 5 alleged assailants face hate crimes charges. Posted: 16 Jun 2020 05:19 PM PDT  "How dehumanizing … to look at this mob of individuals cheering on the sidelines waving as I was carted off to go to jail," Leon McCray said.
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| India coronavirus toll sees record jump of 2,000 dead Posted: 17 Jun 2020 08:21 AM PDT  India's official coronavirus death toll leapt by more than 2,000 on Wednesday as the hard-hit country struggles to contain a ballooning health crisis that has overwhelmed hospitals. The news came as Germany urged its nationals in India to consider leaving for their own safety, while France warned its citizens in New Delhi to stay home unless going to an airport to return to Europe. Authorities said the sharp increase in fatalities to 11,903 was mainly due to Mumbai and Delhi updating their figures.
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| British Airways is reportedly selling lounge artwork for cash, and some pieces are valued at more than a $1 million Posted: 16 Jun 2020 09:53 AM PDT  British Airways once flew the Concorde, but is now resorting to selling its valuable artwork as a new form of cash flow during the pandemic.
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| Former Head of Diversity: ‘Black Lives Did Not Matter at Morgan Stanley’ Posted: 17 Jun 2020 05:13 AM PDT  The investment bank Morgan Stanley is being sued by its former head of diversity, who claims its senior, "white male-centric leadership" refused to adopt her plan to address racial bias at the firm, and instead fired her in December.Marilyn Booker headed diversity at Morgan Stanley from 1994 to 2010 before taking on a project known as the Urban Markets Group, which sought to promote money management in inner cities by connecting minority financial advisers to minority communities.However the program was rendered ineffective after it was steadily stripped of its budget, with 71 per cent of its budget being removed by 2019, Booker said in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday and reported by the Financial Times, Fortune and other outlets. Booker said in her 47-page complaint that "her budget would not amount to a drop in the bucket for Morgan Stanley when compared to the money it threw at other initiatives and the massive revenue the firm generated."Booker argued in court documents that the initiative was needed because only about 100 of Morgan Stanley's 16,000 financial advisers are Black.Morgan Stanley's latest published disclosures on diversity show that 2.2 per cent of its most senior executives in the U.S. were Black or African-American, the second lowest representation recorded by any of the big five U.S. banks.Booker's complaint firmly painted the alleged discrimination as hypocritical in the context of Morgan Stanley's response to George Floyd's death, in the he wake of which the bank made a large contribution to the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund and promoted two Black women to senior leadership committees. Booker noted that CEO James Gorman had described the present moment as a "turning point in race relations."However Booker said the bank's actions told a different story, saying: "Clearly, Black lives did not matter at Morgan Stanley."Morgan Stanley told the FT it strongly rejected the allegations and intended to vigorously defend itself, adding that Booker was let go as part of a round of 1,500 lay-offs late last year.It said: "We are steadfast in our commitment to improve the diversity of our employees and have made steady progress — while recognizing that we have further progress to make. We will continue to advance our high-priority efforts to achieve a more diverse and inclusive firm."Booker is seeking unspecified financial damages.Booker also claims Morgan Stanley nixed her efforts to recruit a Black National Basketball Association player as a spokesperson and later signed up white golfer Justin Rose instead."It goes without saying that Mr Rose was believed to be better recognized among the community of White male affluent golf aficionados, and not most members of the Black and minority communities," she added."Morgan Stanley has had decades to get its house in order and improve its record on diversity and inclusion," Booker's lawyer Jeanne M Christensen, a partner at Wigdortod the FT. "No more excuses. The numbers speak for themselves and Morgan Stanley must be held accountable for looking the other way."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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| Coronavirus in Beijing: 27 neighbourhoods not allowed to leave as spike continues Posted: 16 Jun 2020 11:58 PM PDT  Schools are shut and travel is restricted, as the city reports another 31 Covid-19 cases.
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| Turkey begins offensive against Kurdish rebels in north Iraq Posted: 16 Jun 2020 07:56 PM PDT  Turkey said Wednesday it has airlifted troops into northern Iraq for a cross-border ground operation against Turkey's Kurdish rebels. The airborne-and-land offensive into the border region of Haftanin, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the Turkey-Iraq border, was launched following intense artillery fire into the area, said the Defense Ministry in Ankara. The operation by commando forces is being supported by warplanes, attack helicopters, artillery and armed and unarmed drones, according to the ministry's statement posted on Twitter.
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| By 2030, The World's Naval Power Will Have Shifted East Posted: 16 Jun 2020 11:00 PM PDT  China, India, Japan, and South KOrea
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| Brutal details emerge of India solider 'ambush' on contested border with China as Modi tries to calm tension Posted: 17 Jun 2020 02:19 AM PDT  As the sun began to set over the Himalayan peaks, Colonel Santosh Babu and his unarmed platoon of 50 Indian soldiers on Monday set off on a patrol across the strategically crucial Galwan Valley in Ladakh. Their mission was probably the most important in recent Indian history - to ascertain whether Chinese troops had withdrawn, as per an agreement between senior army officers from the two nations, from territory which had previously been administered by India for decades. Instead, to their surprise, what Colonel Babu's men found were temporary Chinese all-weather tents and roughly enemy 100 soldiers waiting at a location called Patrolling Point 14. Despite being outnumbered, the Indian soldiers confronted the Chinese troops. Some started to remove the tents, sparking a long and brutal man-to-man brawl that has brought the two superpowers to the brink of war. In an initial clash, Colonel Babu and two other soldiers were killed. Soon after 17 Indian troops met the same fate, many either falling or being pushed off a ledge into the freezing waters of the Galwan River below.
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| He was fired for being gay. Seven years later, his Supreme Court win sent a 'clear message.' Posted: 16 Jun 2020 12:35 PM PDT  When history is written, Gerald Bostock's name will grace the landmark case that won LGBTQ people nationwide protection from workplace discrimination.
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| Man charged with murder after shooting woman and her boyfriend over dog poo dispute Posted: 17 Jun 2020 12:04 PM PDT  A man has been charged with murder and attempted murder over the shooting of a couple walking their dog to the bathroom outside his Colorado home.Michael R Close, 36, is alleged to have fatally shot Isabella Thallas, 21, and critically injured her boyfriend Darian Simon on 10 June after what prosecutors said was a verbal exchange over their dog defecating.
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| Antarctica's 'deflated football' fossil is world's second-biggest egg Posted: 17 Jun 2020 08:03 AM PDT  The fossilized egg - measuring 8 by 11 inches (29 by 20 cm) - is only slightly smaller than eggs of Madagascar's giant flightless elephant birds that went extinct only in the past several centuries, scientists said on Wednesday. "This new egg is the very first fossil egg from Antarctica, and the largest soft-shelled egg ever discovered," said University of Texas paleontologist Lucas Legendre, lead author of the research published in the journal Nature. The only creatures in Antarctica at that time large enough to lay such an egg were seagoing reptiles: the marine lizards called mosasaurs and the long-necked plesiosaurs.
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| US fighters have rushed to intercept 8 Russian bombers approaching Alaska in the past week Posted: 17 Jun 2020 09:37 AM PDT  Russian military aircraft have penetrated NORAD air defense identification zones eight times this year, the commander said.
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| George Floyd protests: Brother makes impassioned plea to UN Posted: 17 Jun 2020 10:46 AM PDT  Philonise Floyd urges the UN to investigate the deaths of black people at the hands of US police.
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| Why Donald Trump Can't Win in North Korea Posted: 17 Jun 2020 09:21 AM PDT  There is the very real possibility that Pyongyang's latest provocation is an outburst over failed negotiations.
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| Supreme Court decision 'catalyst' for change: LGBT activists Posted: 16 Jun 2020 01:06 PM PDT 
(New York resident Roger McKinsey): "It's about time, I mean, we are human beings, too, you know what I mean. Why shouldn't we get equal rights just as everyone else?" Supporters of LGBT rights hailed a landmark decision from the Supreme Court, calling it a catalyst for change, but long overdue. (New York resident Drew Ginsburg): "It's right. It should've happened a lot time ago" (New York/Trinidadian resident Wendy Dumas-John): "We've been fighting this fight for so long...it's like it's a brand new day, not only for lesbians and gays, but for trans people." A diverse crowd of New Yorkers wearing masks and waving the rainbow pride flag gathered on Monday at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan, the bar where the gay rights movement started. The High Court ruled that a longstanding federal law barring workplace discrimination also protects gay and transgender employees. The 6-3 ruling represented the biggest moment for LGBT rights in the United States since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015. And it comes during the month of June – Pride Month. (New York resident Drew Ginsburg):"It makes me feel proud. Especially with pride month being cancelled, I feel like pride month should turn into equality month." Two conservative justices joined the court's four liberals in the decision: Chief Justice John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch, a 2017 Trump appointee who wrote the ruling. (Donald Zarda's lawyer Gregory Antollino):"You know, I can win other cases, but I'll never top this." Attorney Gregory Antollino represented one of the plaintiffs - Donald Zarda – a case that Antollino has been working on for ten years. Zarda sued after being fired as a skydiving instructor in New York and claimed he lost his job after he told a customer he was gay and she complained. He died in a skydiving accident after filing the lawsuit in 2014. (Donald Zarda's lawyer Gregory Antollino):"I wish Don were here to celebrate with me…It'll be a catalyst toward changing history. You know, it's a new decision. It's going to take the states that don't protect LGBT rights time to adjust to." The ruling comes as the Trump administration continues to roll back LGBT rights including last week issuing a rule lifting anti-discrimination protections for transgender people in healthcare. The Supreme Court faces another test in its next term, which starts in October, in a case pitting LGBT rights against religious rights involving Philadelphia's decision to bar a Catholic organization from participating in the city's foster care program because the group will not place children with same-sex couples.
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| Cuomo: U.S. government making "historic mistake" on virus advice Posted: 17 Jun 2020 10:41 AM PDT  He announced Tuesday the U.S. Open will be held in New York City this summer, without fans.
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| Rayshard Brooks' killing is 'personal,' Atlanta mayor says Posted: 16 Jun 2020 07:11 AM PDT  Rayshard Brooks was shot to death by police in a Wendy's parking lot in Atlanta on Friday night.
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| EU says 'sovereign' UK has taken back control of its fishing waters Posted: 17 Jun 2020 09:59 AM PDT  The European Union has accepted that Britain will take back control of its waters after the end of the Brexit transition period, the president of the European Commission said on Wednesday. Ursula von der Leyen said that all Brussels wanted was a long-term agreement over fishing rights that gave guarantees to EU boats that had fished UK waters for years. The latest hint at an EU willingness to compromise over its demand for a status quo fishing deal "under existing conditions" still ruled out the annual negotiations over fishing opportunities demanded by the UK. "No one questions the UK sovereignty over its own waters," she told the European Parliament in Brussels, "but we asked for predictability and we asked for guarantees for fisherman and fisher women who have been sailing in those waters for decades". She said that Brussels was willing to be creative to find compromises in the trade negotiations after her meeting with Boris Johnson on Monday. Talks will intensify in July after months of deadlock. The former German defence minister was less conciliatory over the governance structure overseeing the free trade agreement, which the EU wants to also include fishing and foreign policy and security cooperation. A single dispute settlement system was vital for all aspects of the future agreement, she said in a signal the EU would not abandon that red line, despite the UK pushing for a different enforcement regime for each separate agreement. "Governance may sound like an issue for bureaucrats, it's not," she said, "It is central for businesses and our private citizens both in the UK, and the European Union. It is crucial to ensure that what has been agreed is actually done." Mrs von der Leyen told MEPs that the transition period would not be extended beyond the end of the year. Failure to reach a deal by then will mean both sides trading on less lucrative WTO terms. "We on our side have always been ready to grant extension, but it needs two to tango," she said. "This means that we are now halfway through these negotiations with five months left to go but we're definitely not halfway through the work to reach an agreement with little time ahead of us," she warned. "No one can say with certainty, where these negotiations will be at the end of the year. But I know for sure that we will have done everything to reach an agreement," she added. Mrs von der Leyen also insisted on the need for level playing field guarantees and a role for the European Court of Justice "where it matters", which the UK resists. . Mrs von der Leyen claimed that the EU's demand for level playing field guarantees for state aid, tax, labour rights and the environment were to ensure fair competition. The commitments, which are meant to prevent the UK undercutting EU standards, are rejected by Britain because they are more stringent than similar guarantees in EU trade deals with Japan and Canada. Brussels counters that the UK is closer to the EU market and is being offered a zero quota, zero tariff trade deal. "We're ready and willing to compete with British firms they're excellent and our firms are excellent too, but it cannot be a downward competition," she said. "It should be a shared interest for the European Union and the UK to never slide backwards and always advance together towards higher standards." Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, accused the UK of attempting to "cherry-pick" the advantage of membership of the bloc without the obligations. "It's up to the UK to choose what it wants, or whether it wants an agreement," he said before warning that Brussels would not strike a deal "at any price". "But I remain convinced, ladies and gentlemen, honorable members, such an agreement is possible for the long term," he said.
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| T-Mobile explains what caused the massive outage that disrupted voice and data service across the United States earlier this week Posted: 17 Jun 2020 06:52 AM PDT  T-Mobile said the outage that impacted voice and data service across the US was the result of a fiber circuit failure in the Southeast.
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| Living on the edge, Pakistani Hindus still feel safer in India Posted: 16 Jun 2020 04:03 PM PDT  Seven years ago, Dharamveer Solanki, a Hindu, left his home in Pakistan's Hyderabad city, never to return. When his train crossed the border into India, Solanki said he felt happier than ever before. "It felt as though I had been reborn," he said, sitting inside a bustling refugee colony on the outskirts of New Delhi, where he and hundreds of other Hindus who fled Muslim-majority Pakistan have built a new home.
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| Harvard won't require SAT or ACT scores for the class of 2025 as colleges adjust requirements for coronavirus Posted: 15 Jun 2020 07:43 PM PDT  Harvard joined the rest of the Ivy League and other universities who dropped standardized tests as part of this fall's admissions process.
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| Biden climbs in the polls while Trump gets more than a million ticket requests for his Tulsa rally Posted: 17 Jun 2020 03:09 AM PDT  Can Biden get voters to show up on election day? Democratic strategist Robert Patillo and Black Conservative Foundation president Diante Johnson debate.
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| Sorry, China: U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Far From Obsolete Posted: 16 Jun 2020 04:00 AM PDT  The U.S. Navy is now operating three aircraft carriers in the Pacific in what appears to be a strong show of force following Chinese movements and comments regarding Taiwan and the South China Sea.
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| North Korea releases photos showing explosion of liaison office jointly run with South Korea Posted: 17 Jun 2020 08:05 AM PDT  The office building was erected just two years ago to serve as a breeding ground for diplomacy between North Korea and South Korea.
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| George Floyd protests: Man shot in clash over Albuquerque statue Posted: 16 Jun 2020 03:52 PM PDT  A group of armed men tried to stop protesters pulling down a statue of a colonist, reports say.
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| US shoppers returned with vigor in May in partial rebound Posted: 16 Jun 2020 05:38 AM PDT  American shoppers ramped up their spending on store purchases by a record 17.7% from April to May, delivering a dose of energy for retailers that have been reeling since the coronavirus shut down businesses, flattened the economy and paralyzed consumers during the previous two months. The government's report Tuesday showed that consumers' retail purchases have retraced some of the record-setting month-to-month plunges of March (8.3%) and April (14.7%) as businesses have increasingly reopened. Last month's bounce-back by consumers comes against the backdrop of an economy that may have begun what could be a slow and prolonged recovery.
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| Beijing closes all schools, bracing for a 2nd wave of the coronavirus Posted: 16 Jun 2020 09:58 AM PDT  The capital city of 20 million people had gone 50 days without a new recorded case. But last weekend, a cluster of 87 new cases was reported.
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| Police officer laughs after breaking black man’s ankle with flying tackle Posted: 17 Jun 2020 07:51 AM PDT  Atlanta's police department (APD) faces fresh criticism after body-camera footage emerged from an arrest last April in which officers broke a black man's ankle and laughed whilst he was forced to walk on it.The new case comes days after APD chief Ericka Shields resigned following the police shooting of another black man, Rayshard Brooks, amid nationwide protests against racism and police violence.
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| Unemployment payments backlog draws hundreds to Kentucky's capital Posted: 17 Jun 2020 02:36 PM PDT  Hundreds of people who lost jobs during the coronavirus crisis but have been unable to get their unemployment insurance checks converged at the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort early Wednesday to seek in-person help. Margaret Wells worked in retail in Louisville and has been unemployed since April. States have been overwhelmed with the tens of millions of unemployment insurance benefits claims filed during the crisis, with the surge in demand crashing computer systems, clogging phone lines and creating backlogs of pending applications.
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| Deceased in Lejeune Shooting-Stabbing Incident Was Marine Spouse, Officials Say Posted: 16 Jun 2020 09:14 AM PDT  A Marine official confirmed to Military.com that the two people involved were not married to each other.
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| ‘Cut Out the Cancer and Start Rebuilding’: GOP Operatives Form New Anti-Trump Super PAC Posted: 17 Jun 2020 07:22 AM PDT  "NeverTrump" Republicans, including former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci, have formed another Super PAC to boost former vice president Joe Biden in an effort to defeat Trump in November.The "Right Side PAC," founded by former Ohio GOP chairman Matt Borges — who clashed repeatedly with Trump in 2016 and was later voted out after Trump pressured Ohio Republicans to remove him — aims to complement the Lincoln Project, another anti-Trump PAC led by George Conway, husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, and other prominent GOP operatives.Borges told Axios that the focus is on taking advantage of "an opportunity to kind of reset things." He added that the project "would never" have happened if Senators Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) or Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) were the Democratic nominee. Warren is reportedly on the shortlist to be Biden's running-mate."We're not trying to become Democrats," Borges explained. "I intend to vote for every other Republican on the ballot. And I expect that there are others like me who aren't looking to leave the party."Scaramucci stated that Trump's defeat "will be a very necessary part of the reorganization and the regrowth of the Republican Party," and that he is "very confident" in shifting support to Biden."We can convince a large group of Republican voters that Biden is the right person to vote for if they want to stay true to their principles and to the legacy of the Republican Party," he said, warning that Trump's reelection "may set the Republican Party up to be a minority party for a generation."
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| All of America's Expensive Weapons Are Useless Without This One System Posted: 16 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT  Today, if you cannot defend yourself from aerial observation or attack, you will not survive and all of the tanks, artillery, and aircraft the Pentagon has invested in will be of little value or use.
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