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Some primary school years in England returning and lockdown rules easing feature in Monday's papers. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2zR8cOW via IFTTT

The crowd launched early, even though the SpaceX Crew Dragon didn't rise from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A as scheduled. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3db8b75 via IFTTT

Saudi Arabia's mosques opened their doors to worshippers on Sunday for the first time in more than two months as the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, eased restrictions imposed to combat the coronavirus. "It is great to feel the mercy of God and once again call people for prayers at mosques instead of at their homes," said Abdulmajeed Al Mohaisen, who issues the call to prayer at Al Rajhi Mosque, one of the largest in the capital Riyadh. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cdeLbW via IFTTT

Floyd was "non-responsive" for nearly three minutes before the police officer took his knee off his neck, the report said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TVl910 via IFTTT

Footage from Wave 3 local news in Louisville, Ky., appears to show police shooting pepper rounds directly at news crew. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xg7unk via IFTTT

The family of a California cruise ship passenger who died of coronavirus has sued Princess Cruises and its parent company Carnival in federal court. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dmLtsC via IFTTT

China’s Defense Ministry said the navy’s only entirely home-built aircraft is carrying out sea trials to test weapons and equipment and enhance training of the crew. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dicAFc via IFTTT

Listen to the NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon as they launch into orbit. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2X6nhFl via IFTTT

France, Germany and Britain on Saturday criticised a U.S. decision to end sanctions waivers allowing work on Iranian nuclear sites designed to prevent weapons development. "We deeply regret the U.S. decision to end the three waivers," the three European countries said in a joint statement. "These projects, endorsed by U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, serve the non-proliferation interests of all and provide the international community with assurances of the exclusively peaceful and safe nature of Iranian nuclear activities." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dhqEPb via IFTTT

Northwestern University officials are speaking out after an alumnus was arrested in Minneapolis Friday while reporting live on CNN. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36ObwGA via IFTTT

When NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley dock SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station, they'll make history. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XKB4AD via IFTTT

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"The campaign needs to push back strong and quick," said a Democratic state senator, adding that she's confident it will. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XjvENS via IFTTT

"This is not a protest," Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said. "This is chaos. A protest has purpose." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3exvsQQ via IFTTT

Fox News Breaking News Alert Semitrailer speeds into crowd of protesters on Minneapolis bridge; injuries unclear 05/31/20 4:29 PM

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A group of performers were halfway across the ocean in a 75ft boat when the pandemic erupted - leaving them with nowhere to go. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Bc7tIw via IFTTT

Positive stories from people considered at high risk who have made a full recovery from coronavirus. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MgCj50 via IFTTT

Alyssa Hulme from Utah in the US takes us through her weekly spending during the coronavirus pandemic. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2XgH9FE via IFTTT

An Independent Cinema Office survey found only a quarter of venues planned to open before autumn. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2XR2sNs via IFTTT

Dr John Wright tells the story of Marium Zameer, who became very unwell with Covid-19 despite being young and healthy. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3cj8H1J via IFTTT

The social media platform added a warning to his tweet encouraging violence against unarmed civilians protesting the death of George Floyd. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TOo8IP via IFTTT

Boente was asked to resign on Friday and two sources familiar with the decision to dismiss him said it came from high levels of the Justice Department rather than directly from FBI Director Christopher Wray. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3eC1yuC via IFTTT

The European Union urged the United States on Saturday to reconsider its decision to cut ties with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. "In this context, we urge the U.S. to reconsider its announced decision," they said a day after President Donald Trump announced the move, accusing the U.N. agency of becoming a puppet of China. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also condemned the move and pledged intensive talks with Washington on the issue. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MjdEg5 via IFTTT

An ex-police officer in Minneapolis is detained over the death of unarmed black man George Floyd. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dfJ1En via IFTTT

A SpaceX rocket carrying two veteran NASA astronauts was headed for the International Space Station on Saturday on the first ever crewed flight by a private company, ushering in a new era in space travel. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket with astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard blasted off flawlessly in a cloud of bright orange flame and smoke from Florida's Kennedy Space Center for the 19-hour voyage to the orbiting space station. "Let's light this candle," Hurley, the spacecraft mission commander, told SpaceX mission control in Hawthorne, California, before liftoff at 3:22 pm (1922 GMT) from NASA's fabled Launch Pad 39A. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XNEdzq via IFTTT

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected challenges on Friday to curbs on religious services in California and Illinois during the coronavirus pandemic. In the California dispute, the nine justices split 5-4 in rejecting a bid by South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista to block the rules issued by Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat. Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's four liberal justices in the majority. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XdEGMg via IFTTT

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged Friday that the Fed faces a major challenge with the launch in the coming days of a program that will lend to companies other than banks for the first time since the Great Depression. The Fed's Main Street Lending is geared toward medium-sized companies that are too large for the government's small business lending program and too small to sell bonds or stock to the public. Powell said that Main Street will make its first loans in a “few days.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dlFDrK via IFTTT

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken head out on a mission to initiate a new, commercial era in spaceflight. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zIGe88 via IFTTT

Kellie Chauvin's lawyer said she is "devastated" over Floyd's death. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cbfgmQ via IFTTT

Hong Kongers are preparing for a new reality as China moves to impose new national security powers over Hong Kong that are seen by many as a "death knell" for the former British colony's freedoms. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MfJFG4 via IFTTT

Airlines have scheduled a dramatic increase in flights in July in anticipation that Governments will lift travel restrictions for holidaymakers and save the industry from potential collapse, according to data seen by The Sunday Telegraph. The companies which have already laid off tens of thousands of workers are banking on a “V-shaped” recovery by scheduling 161,200 passenger flights and 29.5 million seats for July, just eight per cent down on last year’s July timetables. The strategy to open up business travel and holiday routes to hotspot favourites like Greece, Italy, France and Spain comes as most European countries are preparing to lift their quarantines or open their borders in mid June or at least by July 1. It will increase pressure on Boris Johnson to make good his suggestion last week that the UK’s quarantine - to be introduced on June 8 - could be replaced with “air bridges” to low-risk holiday destinations when it is reviewed on June 29. One senior industry source claimed: ...

As Republicans work to maintain their control of the Senate in November, they're looking to flip seats in some key battleground states. That includes Michigan, where two challengers are looking to unseat incumbent Democratic Senator Gary Peters. Riley Beggin, a political reporter for Bridge Magazine, spoke with CBS News about the contest. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XhRv8w via IFTTT

Klobuchar was elected to the Senate in 2006 around the time that Derrick Chauvin was involved in the shooting that killed Wayne Reyes. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2M9uXQW via IFTTT

A new report by the rights group Amnesty International accuses Ethiopia’s security forces of extrajudicial killings and mass detentions even as the country’s reformist prime minister was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The report issued Friday says security forces killed at least 25 people in 2019 in the East Guji and West Guji zones of the restive Oromia region amid suspicions of supporting a rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Army, and a once-exiled opposition group. The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who was awarded the peace prize in December for sweeping political reforms and restoring ties with neighboring Eritrea after two decades of hostilities, acknowledged that “the reform process has at times experienced bumps” but called the report “a one-sided snapshot security analysis that fails to appropriately capture the broader political trajectory and security developments." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3eueNO1 via IFTTT

The individual began showing symptoms on Sunday and was likely "incubating illness and possibly infectious at the time of the visit." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3eq0078 via IFTTT

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This has caused confusion and anxiety among extremely vulnerable people staying at home. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36GOGki via IFTTT

Private renters are struggling with housing costs more than mortgage-payers, new research suggests. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36PIiaE via IFTTT

The CDC says that it may be possible to contract COVID-19 by coming in contact with a surface or object that has the virus on it, but you're much more likely to get the coronavirus through person-to-person transmission. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36FryTo via IFTTT

Chinese civil aviation authorities plan to extend until June 30 their curbs on international flights to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the U.S. embassy in Beijing said in a travel advisory on Friday. China has drastically cut such flights since March to allay concerns over infections brought by arriving passengers. A so-called "Five One" policy allows mainland carriers to fly just one flight a week on one route to any country and foreign airlines to operate just one flight a week to China. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ZLieMg via IFTTT

Pharmaceutical company executives said Thursday that one or several COVID-19 vaccines could begin rolling out before 2021, but warned the challenges would be "daunting" as it was estimated that 15 billion doses would be needed to halt the pandemic. Well over 100 labs around the world are scrambling to come up with a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, including 10 that have made it to the clinical trial stage. "The hope of many people is that we will have a vaccine, hopefully several, by the end of this year," Pascal Soriot, head of AstraZeneca, told a virtual briefing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ZQQpSH via IFTTT

U.S. health officials removed some coronavirus reopening tips for religious organizations only hours after posting them late last week, deleting guidance that discouraged choir gatherings and the use of shared communion cups. A federal health official on Friday said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted a version of the guidance on May 22 that had not been cleared by White House officials. The initial guidance posted last week contained most of the same advice that was in a draft drawn up by the CDC more than a month ago and then shelved for weeks by administration officials. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xhux1k via IFTTT

Award-winning photographer Niraj Gera takes on stigma surrounding menstruation in India. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36EVZci via IFTTT

Despite the growing number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has refused to impose a lockdown. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AbQGoy via IFTTT

In recent weeks, Sen. Amy Klobuchar has positioned herself as a leading contender in the race to join former Vice President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket. But growing civil unrest in her home state of Minnesota in response to the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer—and renewed scrutiny of her record as the top prosecutor in the state’s largest county—appears to have severely hampered her ambition to be the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee.“Vertiginous,” a campaign adviser said in a one-word text, describing Klobuchar’s fall in the rankings of potential running mates.The three-term senator’s drop has been so swift that a planned Minnesota digital event with Dr. Jill Biden and coronavirus first-responders scheduled for Friday was pulled, according to a source familiar with the campaign’s deliberations, “partly because we need to avoid her.” According to a Biden campaign official, all of Dr. Biden’s virtual events on Friday were canceled “...

Yokohama-based Nissan’s chief executive, Makoto Uchida, said Thursday that its European production will be centered at its British plant in Sunderland. Manufacturing now based in Indonesia will move to Thailand, as the Japanese automaker cuts global production by 20%. Nissan Motor Co. reported a 671.2 billion yen, or $6.2 billion, loss for the fiscal year that ended in March, its first annual loss since 2009, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XB0voa via IFTTT

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered his administration to begin the process of eliminating special U.S. treatment for Hong Kong to punish China, but stopped short of calling an immediate end to privileges that have helped the territory remain a global financial center. In making the announcement, Trump used some of his toughest rhetoric yet against China, saying Beijing had broken its word over Hong Kong's autonomy by moving to impose new national security legislation and the territory no longer warranted U.S. economic privileges. At a White House news conference, Trump called this a tragedy for the people of Hong Kong, China and the world, having already attacked Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic, which began in China. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TMV984 via IFTTT

The Russian government has consistently denied directly intervening in the Libyan conflict. The photos show otherwise. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3gHGpkS via IFTTT

Student's computer overheated after it was hit with a "crypto-jacking" attack. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2XesPNT via IFTTT

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