Politics

July 7, 2020
Democrats: DeSantis’ virus inaction is killing Floridians

Florida's Democratic congressional delegation blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis' response to the coronavirus outbreak, saying Tuesday that his refusal to issue statewide orders requiring masks and closing beaches is killing Floridians...

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July 7, 2020
Biden promises to up US production of key medical equipment

Joe Biden is promising to shift production of medical equipment and other key pandemic-fighting products “back to U.S. soil," creating jobs and bolstering a domestic supply chain he says has...

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July 7, 2020
Movement for Black Lives seeks sweeping legislative changes

Proposed federal legislation that would radically transform the nation's criminal justice system through such changes as eliminating agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the use of surveillance technology is...

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July 7, 2020
Businesses with ties to Mississippi governor received loans

A company partly owned by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and a business where his wife works were recipients of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a federal rescue package meant...

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July 7, 2020
Data-mining firm Palantir files for stealth public offering

The Silicon Valley data-mining firm Palantir Technologies confidentially filed to go public, setting up what could be the biggest stock offering from a technology company since Uber's debut last year....

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July 7, 2020
NY state penalizes Deutsche Bank $150M for Epstein dealings

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $150 million to settle claims that it broke compliance rules in its dealings with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, New York state announced...

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July 7, 2020
Judge rejects Dakota Access request for emergency order

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request for an emergency order to delay the process of shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline while attorneys appeal a ruling to shutter...

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July 7, 2020
AP source: Browns restructure DE Olivier Vernon’s contract

The Cleveland Browns have renegotiated defensive end Olivier Vernon's massive contract for next season, a person familiar with the talks told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Vernon's future with the...

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July 7, 2020
Hiring soared in May as mass layoffs eased

The job market took a big step toward healing in May, though plenty of damage remains, as a record level of hiring followed record layoffs in March and April. The...

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July 7, 2020
Grains mixed,livestock mixed.

Grain futures were mixed on Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery rose 6 cents at $4.95 a bushel; July corn was up...

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July 7, 2020
Businesses to turn away customers without masks amid virus

Residents in Washington state must wear facial coverings inside businesses such as grocery stores and restaurants or be asked to leave under a new statewide order in response to the...

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July 7, 2020
Review finds many who work during rehab aren’t being paid

Across the country, drug and alcohol recovery programs claiming to help the poor and the desperate are instead conscripting them into forms of indentured servitude, requiring them to work without...

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July 7, 2020
‘Pub shaming’ stinks worse than stale beer. We don’t need yet another thing to divide us and deflect blame from the government

Post-lockdown pub-goers are the latest targets for online shaming. It's divisive virtue-signalling, fuelled by snobbery and a lack of empathy and lets the real culprits off the hook. We Brits...

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July 7, 2020
Bradenton tourism marketing under review after ‘make a break’ ad appeared in Miami

The Bradenton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is rethinking its efforts to attract visitors to the area in the face of the exploding coronavirus pandemic. In early June, the CVB...

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July 7, 2020
Wall Street slips as virus outbreaks dim rebound hopes

U.S. stocks are falling in early trading Tuesday as expanding coronavirus outbreaks dim hopes for a speedy recovery. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average followed benchmarks in France,...

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July 7, 2020
Review: ‘Conspiracy’ tells of gold rush and Gilded Age greed

“A Most Wicked Conspiracy: The Last Great Swindle of the Gilded Age,” by Paul Starobin (Public Affairs) Rules, laws and honesty meant little to Alexander McKenzie, a Gilded Age political...

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July 7, 2020
As a trans woman, parent and teacher, I say JK Rowling is absolutely right; it’s child abuse to push kids towards changing sex

The best-selling author has been vilified for warning about how children struggling with their mental health are being shunted towards hormones and surgery by trans activists. But she is brave...

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July 7, 2020
Wayne Dupree: Want America back from these anarchists? Be prepared to fight for it

Russiagate, impeachment, Covid-19 shutdowns, fake news about bounties on US soldiers, and race riots are just the beginning. This is an all-or-nothing last gasp from malevolent malcontents who hate everything...

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July 7, 2020
Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again as the virus resumes its...

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July 7, 2020
Labelling all white women Karens is racist and typical of the sneering woke warriors who think they’re better than you

The already offensive stereotype for white women has been colonised and transformed into a racist ‘anti-racist' trope. And disgracefully, it's being encouraged by elements of the MSM. It's an equation...

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July 7, 2020
Plot twist! The coronavirus is NOT CHINESE, says famed British epidemiologist… but his reputation precedes him

One of the world's leading epidemiologists thinks the coronavirus may not actually have originated in China, with samples of Covid-19 surfacing from Spain in early 2019. The coronavirus story keeps...

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July 7, 2020
These Miami neighborhoods saw more retailers open than leave amid pandemic. Here’s why

While many retail shops in Miami-Dade and Broward sat empty during the first months of the pandemic, a few neighborhoods actually experienced a bump in leasing. Downtown Miami, Coral Gables...

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July 7, 2020
European soccer clubs face $4.5B income drop over next year

European soccer clubs expect to lose 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) in revenue over the next year because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study released Tuesday by the...

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July 7, 2020
5 Things to Know for Today

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. A MICROCOSM OF AMERICAN DISUNITY Places like Saginaw County, in the battleground...

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July 7, 2020
Hong Kong grappling with future under national security law

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam offered scant reassurance Tuesday over a new national security law that critics say undermines liberties and legal protections promised when China took control of the...

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July 7, 2020
TikTok to leave Hong Kong as security law raises questions

TikTok said Tuesday it will stop operations in Hong Kong, joining other social media companies in warily eyeing ramifications of a sweeping national security law that took effect last week....

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July 7, 2020
Meatpacking production is nearly normal, but workers are still coping with COVID-19

Salvador Ramirez, a meatpacking worker at JBS in Worthington, Minn., died alone in a house not much bigger than a studio apartment a mile from the plant. His state death...

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July 7, 2020
Two Midwestern cities. Two local billionaires (Koch and Buffett). Which one can boost prosperity?

In the middle of America, without intention or, really, anyone noticing, a decades-long, real-world experiment shaped by the money, politics and eccentricities of two 80-something billionaires is underway in two...

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July 7, 2020
Workplace tensions flare over whether employees can wear Black Lives Matter masks

As companies declare support for the Black Lives Matter movement, some are not allowing employees to wear masks or other attire that express solidarity with the cause. Employees have pushed...

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July 7, 2020
There’s a new trade agreement in town. It looks to improve on NAFTA but hurdles remain

For more than 25 years, the North American Free Trade Agreement, commonly known as NAFTA, had its share of critics on both the left and the right – sometimes for...

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July 7, 2020
Two pipeline setbacks in two days, and pressure intensifies on Minnesota project

The oil and gas industry has been stunned in the past two days by two more big pipeline setbacks, including a court-ordered temporary closure of the Dakota Access, the main...

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July 7, 2020
AMERICA DISRUPTED: Troubles cleave a nation, and a city

It was difficult to celebrate America in Saginaw this year. The deadly coronavirus had torn through the county. Unemployment had surged five-fold. Weeks of protest over racial inequality left many...

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July 7, 2020
Thermometers in hand, Dubai opens for tourists amid pandemic

From French soccer jerseys to slick online campaigns, Dubai is trumpeting the fact that it reopened for tourism on Tuesday — but what that means for this sheikhdom that relies...

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July 7, 2020
Jerusalem offers a grim model for a post-annexation future

It's hard to say what exactly will change in the West Bank if Israel follows through on its plans to annex parts of the occupied territory, but east Jerusalem, which...

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July 7, 2020
Coronavirus slams Poland’s already-troubled coal industry

The coronavirus has ripped through Poland's coal mines, where men descend deep underground in tightly packed elevators and work shoulder-to-shoulder to extract the source of 75% of the nation's electrical...

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July 7, 2020
Hollywood comes to UK High Court as Depp takes on The Sun

Johnny Depp has a starring role in a real-life courtroom drama in London, where he is suing a tabloid newspaper for libel over an article that branded him a “wife...

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July 7, 2020
The Latest: India’s coronavirus death toll passes 20,000

NEW DELHI — India's death toll from the coronavirus has passed 20,000, with case numbers surging past 700,000. The country reported 467 new deaths in the last 24 hours, taking...

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July 7, 2020
Red Sox dogged by claims of racism, sexual abuse

Last month, when former Major League All-star Torii Hunter said he'd been called the N-word “a hundred times” at Boston's storied Fenway Park, the Red Sox were quick to back...

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July 7, 2020
Trump donors among early recipients of coronavirus loans

As much as $273 million in federal coronavirus aid was awarded to more than 100 companies that are owned or operated by major donors to President Donald Trump's election efforts,...

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July 7, 2020
Medicare nursing home COVID site leaves users ‘in the dark’

When the Trump administration required nursing homes to report their COVID-19 cases, it also promised to make the data available to residents, families and the public in a user-friendly way....

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