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Saving The World — But First, A Haiku — In 'Ghost Of Tsushima'

July 17, 2020 - 6:00pm

As I'm riding my horse through the beautiful, sprawling landscape of feudal Japan, a golden bird flies in front of me. I had been on my way to liberate a small village taken from Mongol invaders, but I follow the bird off the trail. They'll always take you somewhere worth...

Colombia Sees Bouts Of Looting As Coronavirus Fallout Puts People Out Of Work

July 17, 2020 - 5:52pm

In Colombia, a spike in coronavirus cases has forced many towns and cities that had been reopening — including Bogotá and Medellín — to issue new lockdown orders. That's making life especially difficult for poor people who need to work in order to eat. And in some communities,...

Pentagon Chief Effectively Bars Display Of Confederate Battle Flag By U.S. Military

July 17, 2020 - 5:33pm

Updated at 6:18 p.m. ET

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday unveiled a policy change that effectively blocks the public display of the Confederate battle flag at all U.S. military installations without specifically naming that controversial banner.

Esper's announcement follows a lengthy internal debate as well as recent...

Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms

July 17, 2020 - 5:04pm

Updated Saturday at 2:00 a.m. ET

In the early hours of Wednesday, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O'Shea decided to head home.

It had been a calm night compared...

Ghost Ship Fire Victims To Receive $32.7 Million Settlement From City Of Oakland

July 17, 2020 - 4:52pm

The city of Oakland has settled a lawsuit with the victims of the 2016 "Ghost Ship" fire that killed 36 people. The total settlement is for $32.7 million — $23.5 million will go to families of people who died, and $9.2 million will go to Sam Maxwell, who survived the...

India Surpasses 1 Million Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

July 17, 2020 - 4:32pm

India's confirmed coronavirus infections have surpassed one million cases. The country crossed that threshold on Friday after registering nearly 35,000 new cases — its biggest spike so far in a 24-hour period.

India has been breaking its own record almost every day. Only the United States and Brazil...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Cancer Again, Says She Will Remain On The Court

July 17, 2020 - 4:23pm

Updated at 3:34 p.m. ET

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says that her cancer has returned and that chemotherapy is yielding positive results. In a statement, she said that her most recent scan, on July 7, "indicated significant reduction of the liver lesions and no new disease."

In the...

Congressional Democrats Demand White House Restore COVID-19 Data Collection To CDC

July 17, 2020 - 4:02pm

Senate and House Democrats sent letters to the White House on Friday, asking the Trump administration to reverse its decision to sidestep the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in collecting critical COVID-19 hospital data.

Since the start of the pandemic, hospitals in the U.S. have been providing daily...

Twitter Attack Underscores Broad Cyber Risks Still Facing U.S. Elections

July 17, 2020 - 3:30pm

The brazen security compromise at Twitter this week underscored the broad and lingering vulnerabilities of U.S. elections to sophisticated cyberattacks.

A number of accounts of political, technology and business figures were captured apparently from within Twitter's own systems — as opposed to via individual attacks against the end users...

Progressive Jamaal Bowman Projected To Oust Longtime Rep. Engel In N.Y. Primary

July 17, 2020 - 3:26pm

Challenger Jamaal Bowman has defeated longtime U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel in the Democratic primary for New York's 16th Congressional District, The Associated Press projects.

The victory by the education advocate and former middle school principal is a win for New York's progressive movement, coming two years after Rep. Alexandria...

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Saving The World — But First, A Haiku — In 'Ghost Of Tsushima'

Colombia Sees Bouts Of Looting As Coronavirus Fallout Puts People Out Of Work

Pentagon Chief Effectively Bars Display Of Confederate Battle Flag By U.S. Military

Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms

Ghost Ship Fire Victims To Receive $32.7 Million Settlement From City Of Oakland

India Surpasses 1 Million Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Cancer Again, Says She Will Remain On The Court

Congressional Democrats Demand White House Restore COVID-19 Data Collection To CDC

Twitter Attack Underscores Broad Cyber Risks Still Facing U.S. Elections

Progressive Jamaal Bowman Projected To Oust Longtime Rep. Engel In N.Y. Primary

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