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Germany's defense minister on Friday described the planned withdrawal of some 12,000 U.S. troops from her country as “regrettable,” while suggesting it underlines the need for Europe to do more for its own security. American defense leaders said Wednesday that the U.S. will bring about 6,400 troops home and shift about 5,600 to other countries in Europe. The decision fulfills President Donald Trump’s announced desire to withdraw troops from Germany, largely because of what he considers its failure to spend enough on defense. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33bW0ER via Info News For You

A police officer charged in connection with the death of George Floyd has applied to have his charges dropped, court documents show.Lawyers for Tou Thao, 34, have put forward a motion stating that the former Minneapolis police officer could not have known that Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes, was about to commit a crime. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3geO8WU via Info News For You

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. isn’t the only company interested in buying TikTok’s U.S. operations, according to people familiar with the matter.U.S. government officials probing national-security concerns around the Chinese-owned video-sharing app have had talks with at least one other large company as well as investors in TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. who are interested in taking a stake in TikTok, according to one of the people, who requested anonymity because the discussions are private. This person declined to identify these companies.ByteDance is considering changes to the structure of TikTok because President Donald Trump is weighing ordering a divestiture of TikTok’s U.S. business, a decision that could come at any time.Venture investors in ByteDance have approached Chief Executive Officer Zhang Yiming with a range of proposals to address U.S. concerns that the app, especially popular with teens, is a security threat, people familiar with the matter have said. Any solution woul...

Apart from sacrificing goats, it is imperative for all Muslims to begin their day with extra prayers in the morning. In fact most mosques are packed with large groups of people but this year will be different due to government restrictions. from Times of India https://ift.tt/3k1MslF via Info News For You

Joneshia Wilkerson, 23, was arrested on suspicion of failure to return a leased vehicle and fraudulent use of a credit card. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/31j5hu3 via Info News For You

While visiting his childhood home this month, the presidential candidate kneeled to talk to a child. It's false to say he "took a knee" for the flag. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2X9L9av via Info News For You

President Donald Trump repeatedly tests the Republican Party's limits on issues including race, trade and immigration. GOP officials from New Hampshire to Mississippi to Iowa quickly pushed back against Trump's suggestion on Thursday that it might be necessary to delay the November election — which he cannot do without congressional approval — because of the unfounded threat of voter fraud. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu vowed his state would hold its November elections as scheduled: “End of story.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30czgmm via Info News For You

The Philippines' leader doubled down on earlier claims - despite officials saying he was wrong. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/311n7jq via Info News For You

A federal appeals court has overturned the Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence.The decision by a three-judge panel says that the judge that oversaw the original case did not adequately screen the jury for potential biases. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DkHIHh via Info News For You

The planes had been dispatched to help battle the Bishop Fire, a 14,000-acre blaze burning on federal land. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33dKmtk via Info News For You

The agency said its review of 29 applications to obtain wiretaps on U.S. citizens had only minor, mostly typographical errors. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hQy5Pq via Info News For You

A top Michigan official warned that, unless the Republican-controlled state Legislature passes a law to speed up the reporting of election results, it would be responsible for a chaotic and destabilizing election this fall. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hUg6aD via Info News For You

A Texas Republican who tested positive for Covid-19 wrongly suggested he may have contracted the novel coronavirus by wearing a face mask — and said he would be taking an unproven treatment touted by Donald Trump.Louie Gohmert (R—Tx) tested positive on Wednesday during a White House procedural screening just before he was set to fly with the president to Texas on Air Force One. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xf960a via Info News For You

Republicans, Democrats and the Trump administration have been meeting over what should be included in what would be a fifth round of stimulus funding. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/318sxsK via Info News For You

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A hot topic in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election will likely be federal regulation surrounding marijuana. Right now, cannabis remains illegal at the federal level, but over 30 states have various forms of state-level approval for either medical or recreational cannabis.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing aggressively for approval of recreational cannabis, and now, Joe Biden has officially taken a favorable stance on cannabis legislation. Per his 110-page document released back on July 9, his platform outlined three main cannabis-related plans: 1) support federal legislation for medical marijuana, 2) let states decide on recreational cannabis, 3) decriminalize marijuana use and change the drug’s schedule classification via executive action.All of the plans bode well for U.S. cannabis growth, especially the new regulations allowing states to make their own decisions on recreational cannabis. The plan reads as if the federal government will approve cannabis via passage of a bi...

“I never cease to be amazed by things the president tweets, but even that one took me by surprise,” Hogan said. “He can’t postpone the election, he doesn’t have the power to do it, and that’s why it’s an outrageous statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30eVPqA via Info News For You

On Saturday and Sunday, SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship will make its return trip to Earth. Here's how to watch that journey live. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XcoYRi via Info News For You

The American Cancer Society released new guidelines on cervical cancer screenings Thursday, recommending that people with a cervix start testing at age 25. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3k5XhDF via Info News For You

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Albuquerque protesters have said they will meet federal agents sent by Donald Trump with civil disobedience and peaceful protests.After an announcement this week that federal agents were pulling out of Portland, the US president announced more agents would be going to Albuquerque to combat violent crime in the city, from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2D6He7K via Info News For You

Venezuela's supreme court said on Friday it had approved a request to Italy for the extradition of Rafael Ramirez, a once powerful oil minister and former head of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, on corruption charges. Authorities opened a probe into Ramirez over alleged graft in late 2017 and sought an Interpol red alert for him in early 2018, shortly after he left his later post as Venezuela's United Nations ambassador and began publicly criticizing President Nicolas Maduro's handling of the economy, which remains in freefall. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39WrIYh via Info News For You

Congress spokesman Jaiveer Shergill said, “Indian National Congress whole-heartedly welcomed and welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court paving the path for construction of the Ram mandir.” Senior Congress member Kamal Nath has also welcomed the construction of the temple. from Times of India https://ift.tt/2CXLqqt via Info News For You

A lawyer for Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, accused a British newspaper publisher in court on Wednesday of commercially exploiting its legal dispute with her by using court documents as the basis for "sensational" coverage. Meghan, wife of Queen Elizabeth's grandson Prince Harry, is suing Associated Newspapers over articles in the Mail on Sunday in February 2019 that included parts of a handwritten letter she sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018. Increasingly hostile relations between the royal couple and some British newspapers they accused of intrusive, inaccurate and sometimes racist coverage was one of the reasons why Harry and Meghan left Britain for the United States. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jTgdFl via Info News For You

Overwhelming scientific evidence has shown that face masks significantly reduce the chance of a person spreading or being infected by the coronavirus. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DjRVn2 via Info News For You

The agency said its review of 29 applications to obtain wiretaps on U.S. citizens had only minor, mostly typographical errors. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hQy5Pq via Info News For You

The move will cost billions of dollars, according to Defense Secretary Mark Esper. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3k0jItV via Info News For You

A Republican senator in Alabama celebrated a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member’s birthday at the same time hundreds were honouring the life of civil rights hero John Lewis.State Representative Will Dismukes took part in an event marking the KKK grand wizard and former Confederate Army General, Nathan Bedford Forrest, as Alabama honoured the late Georgia Democrat this weekend. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/306vUBk via Info News For You

The all-electric pickup will have 1,000 horsepower and be able to sprint from 0-60 mph in 3 seconds. GMC also teased the Hummer SUV. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jV2n5g via Info News For You

The Chicago Police Department's new deputy chief of criminal networks was found dead on Tuesday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the latest in a history of suicides at the department.Dion Boyd, 57, was sworn into his new post on July 15 after 30-years on the force. Superintendent David Brown urged officers to keep an eye out for colleagues who could be in distress."Let's always remember to take care of ourselves and each other," Brown said at a press conference.The national suicide rate among police officers is about 18 per 100,000 as of 2017, however the rate in Chicago is 60 percent higher."One of the shocking statistics for me was that cops kill themselves at a higher rate than bad guys kill the police.  And when you put it in those numbers, you realize that there’s a real problem," Phil Cline, executive director of the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, told WBBM radio.  “And it’s not something the just sprung up in the last year or so. It...

(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. justified its big investments to keep operating through the Covid-19 pandemic with sales growth and a record profit that far exceeded analysts’ estimates, showing that staying open when so many businesses were forced to close was a rare opportunity.The online retail giant spent more than $4 billion in the second quarter to clean warehouses, hire employees and entice them back to work with temporary pay raises while much of the country shut down. That push paid off as customers shifted from buying groceries and emergency supplies early in the pandemic to bigger orders with electronics and housewares to settle in at home for the long haul.Second-quarter revenue jumped 40% from a year earlier to $88.9 billion. Earnings were $10.30 a share, beating analysts’ average projection of $1.51 per share on sales of $81.2 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Amazon’s forecast suggests the momentum will continue. Revenue in the current quarter will range fr...

New Bites Designed for a Better Calibrated Dose are Launching at Curaleaf's 28 Dispensaries StatewideWAKEFIELD, Mass., July 30, 2020 /CNW/ -- Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. from Yahoo Finance https://ift.tt/3398sVP via Info News For You

Children will be exposed to different languages early on but with a particular emphasis on the mother tongue, starting from the foundational stage onwards. All languages will be taught in an enjoyable and interactive style, said Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal. from Times of India https://ift.tt/2XesDOl via Info News For You

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they launched ballistic missiles from "the depths of the Earth" on Wednesday during the last day of military exercises near sensitive Gulf waters. The launches came a day after the Guards struck a mock-up of a US aircraft carrier with volleys of missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of world oil output. The Iranian manoeuvres were staged amid heightened tensions between Iran and its decades-old arch enemy the United States. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39HeBtB via Info News For You

A retired New York fashion executive with a "zest" for life dies in a rare shark attack near Portland. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2CZq8Zt via Info News For You

“My mom loved to help people,” her daughter Gina Haggard wrote in a statement read by police. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30W5nWk via Info News For You

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The disturbance now called Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine has not yet become Tropical Storm Isaias, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday in its latest public advisory. The storm still lacks a well-defined center of circulation, but it is expected to become a tropical storm Wednesday night, Senior Hurricane Specialist Daniel Brown wrote in the latest forecast ... from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2X7rAQ9 via Info News For You

Giuliani also said he's gotten the medication for four of his friends because "it's hard to get hydroxychloroquine." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xayfci via Info News For You

A new survey has found more evidence to suggest that people can become infected with COVID-19 through aerosol transmission, which could be prevented by wearing a mask. Carried out by data scientists in the UK, Norway, and the US, the study is one of the first to investigate which personal and work-related factors can lead to COVID-19 transmission. After surveying 2,000 people in the UK and US, the researchers found that the data from both countries suggests that aerosol transmission of the virus -- via microdroplets which are so small that they remain suspended in the air for several hours -- is very likely. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39EGDWy via Info News For You

The man, police said, “wanted to sow discord and racial unrest by breaking out the windows." His identity has not been released. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/313jHwj via Info News For You

The author, Mamutjan Abdurehim, is a Uighur father from Xinjiang — the Chinese region synonymous with surveillance, detentions, and forced labor. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jU9eMj via Info News For You

A Texas Republican who tested positive for Covid-19 wrongly suggested he may have contracted the novel coronavirus by wearing a face mask — and said he would be taking an unproven treatment touted by Donald Trump.Louie Gohmert (R—Tx) tested positive on Wednesday during a White House procedural screening just before he was set to fly with the president to Texas on Air Force One. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xf960a via Info News For You

The entire collection was valued by auction house Sotheby's at around $1.7 million but one piece auctioned so far fetched more than that by itself. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jVNPSW via Info News For You

​​As the meeting got under way, veterans flagged the need for a reality check on the party’s political strategy and organisational weaknesses. In the course of the discussion, MPs PL Punia, Ripun Bora and Chhaya Verma raised the demand that Rahul Gandhi be made the party chief again. from Times of India https://ift.tt/2XbVrXT via Info News For You

A Mumbai-based advocate-cum-PIL petitioner on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking disbanding of the inquiry commission formed to look into the encounter killings of gangster Vikas Dubey . Ghanshyam Upadhyay filed an application alleging bias against both Justice Chauhan and ex-DGP K L Gupta. from Times of India https://ift.tt/2DiZEBV via Info News For You

Prem Chand, now 76 years old, was charged after sample of haldi (turmeric) taken from his shop in a village in Sonepat district in 1982 by a food inspector along with a medical officer was found adulterated. The report of the public analyst revealed that it contained four living meal worms and two liveweevils. from Times of India https://ift.tt/30e3sNN via Info News For You

A Tennessee state senator has been charged with stealing more than $600,000 in federal funds received by a health care company she directed and using the money to pay for her wedding and other personal expenses, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. A criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday charges state Sen. Katrina Robinson with theft and embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said in a news release. Robinson, a Democrat elected to the General Assembly in 2018 from a Memphis district, is also the director of The Healthcare Institute, which provides training for jobs in the health care field, prosecutors said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3hUvO5X via Info News For You

A Republican senator in Alabama celebrated a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member’s birthday at the same time hundreds were honouring the life of civil rights hero John Lewis.State Representative Will Dismukes took part in an event marking the KKK grand wizard and former Confederate Army General, Nathan Bedford Forrest, as Alabama honoured the late Georgia Democrat this weekend. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/306vUBk via Info News For You

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched underground ballistic missiles Wednesday as part of an exercise involving a mock-up American aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting its network of subterranean missile sites. Although state television documentaries have focused on operations at underground bases, all have avoided showing geographic details revealing their locations. Wednesday's launch from what appears to be central Iran's desert plateau may have changed that amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S. over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers and as economic pressures grow. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DcTfYY via Info News For You

Russia, the U.S., and other space-going nations are trying to establish a military presence in space around Earth – and defend themselves from rivals. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3gcQo0O via Info News For You

The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google sat for a 5-hour grilling before the House Judiciary Committee, with dramatically different results for each company. from Yahoo Finance https://ift.tt/3gbFpEJ via Info News For You

Until recently, shares of Bionano Genomics (BNGO) had been on an almost constant downward trend, declining by 90% since August 2018. However, sentiment appears to have improved as evidenced by a gain of 50% over the past month.According to Oppenheimer analyst Kevin DeGeeter, there’s still a long way up from here. The 5-star analyst reiterated an Outperform (i.e. Buy) rating on BNGO shares along with a $1.50 price target. The implication for investors? Mighty upside potential of a further 100%. (To watch DeGeeter’s track record, click here)For starters, the heart of the bullish case for Bionano is its role in cytogenetics - the study of chromosomal structures - and in particular, the part its genome imaging system, Saphyr, can play.The instrument is being adopted in the EU, where cytogenetics is “building toward a tipping point.” Labs in Germany, the Netherlands and Italy are “completing validation studies for cytogenetics,” which should lead to further adoption of Saphyr in other labs ...

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The US Navy posted a photo on social media ridiculing Iran after it fired missiles on a mock-up of a US flattop on Wednesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BEJ52Q via Info News For You

The nation's death toll from coronavirus surpassed 150,000 on Wednesday, reaching the highest such figure globally, as Covid-19 infections continue to rise across the US.Donald Trump meanwhile spent the day travelling to a fundraiser in Texas to support oil drilling efforts, raging against Democrats in a campaign-style speech before signing a series of pipeline permits. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jL8cCt via Info News For You

Some witnesses in the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend may face harassment and intimidation and could be reluctant to cooperate with the government if defense attorneys are allowed to discuss them publicly, prosecutors said Tuesday. Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal court judge to block lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell from publicly identifying women who have already spoken about the financier or Maxwell on a public forum. “The victims of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein have suffered enough," prosecutors said, urging privacy for accusers except for anyone who acknowledges publicly they are part of the criminal case against Maxwell. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/307FOm7 via Info News For You

In his first appearance ever before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr declined to say that political concerns weren’t animating the Trump administration’s use of federal troops to crack down on Black Lives Matter demonstrators.Asked by Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) if he’d discussed the politics of the crackdown with Trump or anyone in his inner circle, Barr didn’t specifically mention the Department of Justice operations but confirmed that the election “comes up” in his conversations with the president. “I’m a member of the Cabinet,” said Barr, “and there’s an election going on.”Pressed further by Nadler on the topic, Barr demurred: “I’m not going to get into my discussions with the president.” Bully Boy Bill Barr is America’s Ultimate Chaos AgentAs well, Barr indicated he views protesters in Portland, Oregon, not as demonstrators demanding Black liberation or defending themselves from an unwanted federal intrusion but as insurrectionists.“What...

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Lawmakers slammed Rep. Jim Jordan at the antitrust hearing after he interrupted a colleague accusing him of raising "fringe conspiracy theories." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3fiaaa4 via Info News For You