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Story 181 - Tuesday July 7, 2020
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| President Trump, who this past week has falsely claimed that the coronavirus is harmless for 99 percent of cases and said that the pandemic will disappear, is on the wrong side of public opinion about the virus.
Thats the unmistakable conclusion from the first installment of our online NBC News SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll on social and economic issues.
According to the poll, a combined 70 percent of Americans are very or somew ...
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Story 180 - Tuesday July 7, 2020
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Story 178 - Friday July 3, 2020
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| SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. - A man robbing a convenience store fatally shot a bystander before being killed in a wild shootout with another bystander, police in suburban Phoenix said Friday morning.
The suspect in the robbery was also believed to have pulled off two holdups at gas station convenience stores earlier in the night.
Scottsdale Police Sgt. Ben Hoster said the gunfire erupted at about 2:40 a.m. when a man attempted to rob a Cir ...
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Story 177 - Friday July 3, 2020
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| GABORONE, Botswana (AP) ? Botswana says it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses ? 275 ? found in the popular Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in recent weeks.
The Department of Wildlife and National Parks said it is mobilizing human personnel and aircraft to better understand the ?mysterious deaths.? Samples have been collected for analysis at labs in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Canada and a ...
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Story 176 - Saturday June 27, 2020
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SPRINGFIELD, MASS. ? A woman has died and a man has been hospitalized following a shooting in Springfield, police said Saturday.
The shooting happened Friday night at around 11 p.m. Police say officers responded to the scene after the department's ShotSpotter activation system was triggered by the shooting.
The officers found the ...
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Story 175 - Saturday June 27, 2020
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| US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Washington is imposing visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for undermining freedoms in Hong Kong.
Mr Pompeo said the sanctions targeted "current and former" party officials.
He said the move followed President Donald Trump's promise to punish Beijing over a proposed security law that could erode Hong Kong's autonomy.
China said th ...
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Story 174 - Thursday June 25, 2020
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| HOUSTON â?? Hospital administrators and health experts warned desperately Wednesday that parts of the U.S. are on the verge of becoming overwhelmed by a resurgence of the coronavirus, lamenting that politicians and a tired-of-being-cooped-up public are letting a disaster unfold. The U.S. recorded a one-day total of 34,700 new COVID-19 cases, the highest in two months, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University. The number of new c ...
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Story 173 - Thursday June 25, 2020
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BY ELAINE KURTENBACH, Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) ? Governments and businesses are ramping up precautions as coronavirus case numbers rise to dire new levels in parts of the U.S. and around the world, potentially wiping out two months of progress.
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Story 172 - Thursday June 25, 2020
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| KINGMAN ? Authorities say they have identified and arrested two suspects who fled an attempted traffic stop Sunday in Fort Mohave after shots were fired at a Mohave County Sheriff?s deputy.
Agency spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said gunfire erupted when the deputy tried to pull over a silver Toyota Rav4 just before noon in the vicinity of South Calle Ranchita and East Camino Viejo. She said authorities allege Casper James Homer, 35, was th ...
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Story 171 - Saturday June 20, 2020
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Story 170 - Thursday June 11, 2020
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Story 167 - Tuesday June 9, 2020
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| Donald Trump has claimed a 75-year-old man who was hospitalized when police shoved him to the ground at a protest in Buffalo could be an antifa provocateur and suggested the incident could be a set-up.
Two Buffalo police officers were charged with assault after video showed them pushing Martin Gugino, a slightly-built septuagenarian and long-time peace activist, with enough force that he violently struck his head on the sidewalk.
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Story 166 - Tuesday June 9, 2020
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London (CNN)More than 50,000 people in the UK have now died after contracting coronavirus, according to the respective national statistics offices of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
At least 50,413 people had died, as of late May, with Covid-19 listed on their death certif ...
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Story 165 - Friday June 5, 2020
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Fifty-seven police officers in Buffalo, New York, have resigned from the force's emergency response team following the suspension of two officers who allegedly pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground, a source close to the situation said Friday.
An investigation is underway in a protest incident Gov. Andrew Cuomo called "wholly unjustified and utterly disgraceful." The man was seriously injured.
Video of ...
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Story 164 - Sunday May 31, 2020
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Rajesh Chouhan had covered 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) in five days. His legs were swollen and his blisters had burst. A piece of Styrofoam trash he'd found on the roadside was soaking up the pus seeping from his feet.
But he didn't stop walking. He couldn't.
The 26-year-old migrant worker was in the heart of India and only halfway home.
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Story 162 - Sunday May 31, 2020
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MANILA (Reuters) ? The Philippines on Sunday reported 862 additional coronavirus situations and also seven more deaths from the breathing illness.
In a publication, the Department of Health claimed the Southeast Asian nation currently had an overall of 18,086 infections while its casualty had actually increased to957 It claimed 101 more individuals had actually recouped, taking the variety of recuperations up unti ...
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Story 161 - Wednesday May 20, 2020
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| A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage firm can retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcast distress calls from the sinking Titanic ocean liner. In an order released Monday, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith agreed that the telegraph is historically and culturally important and could soo ...
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