Motion Picture Academy Invites 819 New Members, Surpasses Five Year Diversity Goal, Vows To Advance Inclusion Efforts - Deadline

Motion Picture Academy Invites 819 New Members, Surpasses Five Year Diversity Goal, Vows To Advance Inclusion Efforts  DeadlineView Full Coverage on Google News

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Dan Hooker shares heartbreaking photo with his daughter during mandatory quarantine - MMA Junkie

1. Dan Hooker shares heartbreaking photo with his daughter during mandatory quarantine  MMA Junkie
2. “Still Today He’s in Love With Her” – Daniel Cormier Comments on Dustin Poirier’s Journey  Essentially Sports
3. Kiwi fighter's photo shows heartbreaking reality of virus rule  Yahoo Sport Australia
4. Spinning Back Clique: Was Dustin Poirier vs. Dan Hooker the 'Fight of the Year'?  MMA Junkie
5. UFC divisional rankings: Dustin Poirier moves into tie with Tony Ferguson after UFC Fight Night win  CBS Sports
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Facebook bans 'violent' Boogaloo-linked network

It said the group seeks violence and is loosely affiliated with the far-right Boogaloo movement

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Coronavirus: Joe Biden will not hold campaign rallies

"This is the most unusual campaign, I think, in modern history," the Democratic nominee said.

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Coronavirus: What's behind new US outbreaks?

Cases are rising in Texas, Florida, Arizona and California - here's a look at the data and the theories.

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How Is Your State Doing With Coronavirus Testing? : Consider This from NPR - NPR

1. How Is Your State Doing With Coronavirus Testing? : Consider This from NPR  NPR
2. Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Cases Reach New Record  The New York Times
3. Coronavirus Outbreak: Live Updates and News for Jul. 1, 2020  Bloomberg
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Human remains found in Texas during search for missing soldier Vanessa Guillen - NBC News

1. Human remains found in Texas during search for missing soldier Vanessa Guillen  NBC News
2. Family demands answers in missing Fort Hood soldier case  CBS This Morning
3. Human remains are found in search for missing US soldier  Daily Mail
4. Unidentified Remains Found During Search for Missing Texas Soldier Vanessa Guillen  PEOPLE
5. Family of missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen accuses Army of "covering up for each other"  CBS News
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Black mayor of Kansas City says he was called N-word, received death threat over mask rule - NBC News

1. Black mayor of Kansas City says he was called N-word, received death threat over mask rule  NBC News
2. Kansas City mayor receives racist threats over mask order: 'You should hang from a tree'  New York Post
3. Kansas City mayor says he's receiving death threats over mask order | TheHill  The Hill
4. KCK police investigating homicide on Wood Avenue  KSHB
5. Black Kansas City Mayor Told To ‘Swing From A Tree’ Over Mask Order  Forbes
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Covid-19, Chairman Powell, Secretary Mnuchin, Dr. Fauci and $1800 gold - Kitco NEWS

1. Covid-19, Chairman Powell, Secretary Mnuchin, Dr. Fauci and $1800 gold  Kitco NEWS
2. Watch Jerome Powell, Steven Mnuchin testify before House finance committee on pandemic response  CNBC
3. As the Fed's Powell sounds alarms, mortgage rates tank below 3%  Yahoo! Voices
4. Mnuchin: PPP loan recipients will be released by end of the week  Fox Business
5. Mnuchin, Powell testify before House panel on coronavirus aid: live blog  MarketWatch
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Netgear now has a slightly less expensive Wi-Fi 6 Orbi mesh router - The Verge

Netgear now has a slightly less expensive Wi-Fi 6 Orbi mesh router  The Verge

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The Academy Invites 819 New Members, Including Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo, Ari Aster, and More - IndieWire

1. The Academy Invites 819 New Members, Including Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo, Ari Aster, and More  IndieWire
2. Motion Picture Academy Invites 819 New Members, Surpasses Five Year Diversity Goal, Vows To Advance Inclusion Efforts  Deadline
3. Awkwafina, John David Washington, Florence Pugh Among the 819 Invited to Join Oscars Academy  Yahoo! Voices
4. Film Academy Invites 819 New Members, With 36 Percent People of Color  Hollywood Reporter
5. Here Are All the New Oscar Voters Who Were Just Invited to Join the Academy  Collider.com
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Khloe Kardashian sparks Tristan Thompson engagement rumors - Daily Mail

1. Khloe Kardashian sparks Tristan Thompson engagement rumors  Daily Mail
2. This Pic of Kourtney Kardashian Without Eyebrows Will Blow Your Mind  Yahoo! Voices
3. Inside Rob Kardashian’s Transformation: ‘He Takes Care of Himself and Works Out,’ Says Source  PEOPLE.com
4. Harry and Meghan’s speeches will cost you  Page Six
5. Kourtney Kardashian is unrecognizable without eyebrows  AOL
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No I-Cubs in 2020: Minor League Baseball cancels 2020 season - KCCI Des Moines

1. No I-Cubs in 2020: Minor League Baseball cancels 2020 season  KCCI Des Moines
2. The Most-Valuable Teams In Major League Baseball 2020 | The Countdown | Forbes  Forbes
3. Inside the rise of MLB's Ivy League culture - Stunning numbers and a question of what's next  ESPN
4. Opinion: Minor League Baseball's canceled 2020 season a cruel blow in grim 2020 sports year  USA TODAY
5. Sea Unicorns season has been shelved  Norwich Bulletin
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Cendana Capital, which has been backing seed funds for a decade, has $278 million more to invest

When in 2010, former VC Michael Kim set out to raise a fund that he would invest in a spate of micro VC managers, the investors to which he turned didn’t get it. Why pay Kim and his firm, Cendana Capital,  a management fee on top of the management fees that the VC managers themselves charge?

Fast forward to today, and Kim has apparently proven to his backers that he’s worth the extra cost. Three years after raising $260 million across a handful of vehicles whose capital he plugged into up-and-coming venture firms, Kim is now revealing a fresh $278 million in capital commitments, including $218 million for its fourth flagship fund, and $60 million that Cendana will be managing expressly for the University of Texas endowment.

We talked with Kim last week about how he plans to invest the money, which differs slightly from how he has invested in the past.

Rather than stick solely with U.S.-based seed-stage managers who are raising vehicles of $100 million or less, he will split Cendana into three focus areas. One of these will remain seed-stage managers. A smaller area of focus — but one of growing importance, he said — is pre-seed managers who are managing $50 million or less and mostly funding ideas (and getting roughly 15% of the company in exchange for the risk).

A third area of growing interest is in international managers. In fact, Kim says Cendana has already backed small venture firms in Australia (Blackbird Ventures), China (Cherubic Ventures, which is a cross-border investor that is also focused on the U.S.), Israel (Entree Capital), and India (Saama Capital), among other spots.

Altogether, Cendana is now managing around $1.2 billion. For its services, it charges its backers a 1% management fee and 10% of its profits atop the 2.5% management fee and 20% “carried interest” that his fund managers collect.

“To be extremely clear about it and transparent,” said Kim, “that’s a stacked fee that’s on top of what are fund managers charts. So Cendana LPs are paying 3.5% and 30%.” One “might think that seems pretty egregious,” he continued. “But a number of our LPs are either not staffed to go address this market or are too large, like the University of Texas, to actually write smaller checks to these seed funds. And we provide a pretty interesting value proposition to them.”

Meanwhile, Kim argues that other, bigger fund managers have a very different strategy than his own.

“A lot of these well-known fund of funds are asset gatherers,” he says. “They’re not charging carried interest. They’re in it for the management fee. They have shiny offices around the world, they have hundreds of people working at them, they’re raising billion-dollar-plus kind of funds, and they’re putting 30 to 50 names into each one, so in a way they become index funds. [But[ I don’t think venture is really an asset class. Unlike an ETF that’s focused on the S&P 500, venture capital is where a handful of fund managers capture most of the alpha. Our differentiation is that we’re taking we’re creating very concentrated portfolios.”

Specifically, Cendana typically holds positions in up to 12 funds, plus makes $1 million bets on another handful of more nascent managers that it will fund further if they prove out their theses.

Some of the managers it has backed has outgrown Cendana from an assets standpoint. It caps its investments in funds that are $100 million or less in size. But over time, it has backed 22 managers over the years. Among them: 11.2 Capital, Accelerator Ventures, Angular Ventures, Bowery Capital, Collaborative Fund, Forerunner Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle Capital, IA Ventures, L2 Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, MHS Capital, Montage Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Neo, NextView Ventures, Silicon Valley Data Capital, Spider Capital, Susa Ventures, Uncork VC (when it was still SoftTech VC), Wave Capital and XYZ Ventures.

As for its pre-seed fund managers, Cendana is now the anchor investors in 10 funds, including Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bolt VC, Engineering Capital, K9 Ventures, Mucker Capital, Notation Capital, PivotNorth Capital, Rhapsody Venture Partners, Root Ventures, and Wonder Ventures.

As for its returns, Kim says that Cendana’s very first fund, a $28.5 million vehicle, is “marked at north of 3x” and “that’s net of everything.”

He’s optimistic that the firm’s numbers will look even better over time. According to Kim, Cendana currently has 38 so-called unicorns in its broader portfolio and more than 160 companies that are valued at more than $100 million.

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Facebook shuts down Hobbi, its experimental app for documenting personal projects

Facebook’s recently launched app, Hobbi, an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down. The app first arrived on iOS in February as one of now several launches from Facebook’s internal R&D group, the NPE Team.

Hobbi users have now been notified by way of push notification that the app is shutting down on July 10, 2020. The app allows users to export their data from its settings.

In the few months it’s been live on the U.S. App Store, Hobbi only gained 7,000 downloads, according to estimates from Sensor Tower. Apptopia also reported the app had under 10K downloads and saw minimal gains during May and June.

Though Hobbi clearly took cues from Pinterest, it was not designed to be a pinboard of inspirational ideas. Instead, Hobbi users would organize photos of their projects — like gardening, cooking, arts & crafts, décor, and more — in a visual diary of sorts. The goal was to photograph the project’s progress over time, adding text to describe the steps, as needed.

The end result would be a highlight reel of all those steps that could be published externally when the project was completed.

But Hobbi was a fairly bare bones app. There was nothing else to do but document your own projects. You couldn’t browse and watch projects other users had created, beyond a few samples, nor could you follow top users across the service. And even the tools for documentation were underdeveloped. Beyond a special “Notes” field for writing down a project’s steps, the app experience felt like a watered-down version of Stories.

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Facebook wasn’t alone in pursuing the potential of short-form creative content. Google’s internal R&D group, Area 120, also published its own experiment in this area with the video app Tangi. And Pinterest was recently spotted testing a new version of Story Pins, that would allow users to showcase DIY and creative content in a similar way.

It’s not surprising to see Hobbi wind down so quickly, given its lack of traction. Facebook already said its NPE Team experiments would involve apps that changed very rapidly and would shut down if consumers didn’t find them useful.

In addition to Hobbi, the NPE Team has launched a number of apps since last summer, including meme creator Whale, conversational app Bump, music app Aux, couples app Tuned, Apple Watch app Kit, audio calling app CatchUp, collaborative music app Collab, live event companion Venue, and predictions app Forecast. Before Hobbi, the only one to have shut down was Bump. (Some are not live in the U.S., either.)

Of course, Facebook may not intend to use these experiments to create a set of entirely new social apps built from the ground-up. Instead, it’s likely looking to collect data about what features resonate with users and how different creation tools are used. This is data that can inform Facebook’s development of features for its main set of apps, like Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.

We’ve reached out to Facebook for comment but one had not been provided at the time of publication.

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Lyft’s self-driving test vehicles are back on public roads in California

Lyft’s self-driving vehicle division has restarted testing on public roads in California, several months after pausing operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lyft’s Level 5 program said Tuesday some of its autonomous vehicles are back on the road in Palo Alto and at its closed test track. The company has not resumed a pilot program that provided rides to Lyft employees in Palo Alto.

The company said it is following CDC guidelines for personal protective equipment and surface cleaning. It has also enacted several additional safety steps to prevent the spread of COVID. Each autonomous test vehicle is equipped with partitions to separate the two safety operators inside, the company said. The operators must wear face shields and submit to temperature checks. They’re also paired together for two weeks at a time.

Lyft’s Level 5 program — a nod to the SAE automated driving level that means the vehicle handles all driving in all conditions — launched in July 2017 but didn’t starting testing on California’s public roads until November 2018. Lyft then ramped up the testing program and its fleet. By late 2019, Lyft was driving four times more autonomous miles per quarter than it was six months prior.

Lyft had 19 autonomous vehicles testing on public roads in California in 2019, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, the primary agency that regulates AVs in the state. Those 19 vehicles, which operated during the reporting period of December 2018 to November 2019, drove nearly 43,000 miles in autonomous mode, according to Lyft’s annual report released in February. While that’s a tiny figure when compared to other companies such as Argo AI, Cruise and Waymo, it does represent progress within the program.

Lyft has supplemented its on-road testing with simulation, a strategy that it relied on more heavily during COVID-related shutdowns. And it will likely continue to lean on simulation even as local governments lift restrictions and the economy reopens.

Simulation is a cost-effective way to create additional control, repeatability and safety, according to a blog post released Tuesday by Robert Morgan, director of engineering, and Sameer Qureshi, director of product management at Level 5. The pair said simulation has also allowed the Level 5 unit to test its work without vehicles, without employees leaving their desks and, for the last few months, without leaving their homes. Level 5 employs more than 400 people in London, Munich and the United States.

Using simulation in the development of autonomous vehicle technology is a well-established tool in the industry. Lyft’s approach to data — which it uses to improve its simulations — is what differentiates the company from competitors. Lyft is using data collected from drivers on its ride-hailing app to improve simulation tests as well as build 3D maps and understand human driving patterns.

The Level 5 program is taking data from select vehicles in Lyft’s Express Drive program, which provides rental cars and SUVs to drivers on its platform as an alternative to options like long-term leasing.

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Russia's Putin appeals to patriotism as key vote reaches climax

Russians have one more day to decide on key reforms, but opponents say the vote is a farce.

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Lori Vallow faces more charges after her children's bodies were found - CNN

1. Lori Vallow faces more charges after her children's bodies were found  CNN
2. Lori Vallow Daybell charged with conspiracy to conceal evidence  KSL.com
3. 'Cult mom' Lori Vallow hit with new charges  Fox News
4. LIVE: Lori Vallow Daybell has first court appearance on new criminal charges  East Idaho News
5. Lori Vallow faces new charges after children's remains found on husband's property  NBC News
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A Surprising Role Model Emerges for Boris Johnson: F.D.R. - The New York Times

1. A Surprising Role Model Emerges for Boris Johnson: F.D.R.  The New York Times
2. Johnson Vows to `Build, Build, Build' U.K. Into Recovery  Bloomberg Politics
3. Coronavirus: Johnson sets out 'ambitious' economic recovery plan  BBC News
4. Boris Johnson's 'revolutionary new deal' is a hollow distraction  The Guardian
5. Boris Johnson Has a New American Hero  Bloomberg
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Call Of Duty Patch Notes: Modern Warfare/Warzone Update Adds 200-Player Mode, Grau Nerf - GameSpot

1. Call Of Duty Patch Notes: Modern Warfare/Warzone Update Adds 200-Player Mode, Grau Nerf  GameSpot
2. Call of Duty®: Warzone - Verdansk Air Trailer  Call of Duty
3. Call of Duty: Warzone gets 200-player mode, new weapon  Polygon
4. Warzone ups its player count to 200, adds a tasty shopping contract  Rock Paper Shotgun
5. Report: Call of Duty Warzone to Follow Apex Legends and PUBG with New Feature  Essentially Sports
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Google Sheets will soon be able to autocomplete data for you - TechCrunch

1. Google Sheets will soon be able to autocomplete data for you  TechCrunch
2. Google Sheets will soon suggest formulas as you type  Engadget
3. Google makes Connected Sheets generally available for G Suite users  ZDNet
4. PwC uses Connected Sheets to scale data insights  G Suite
5. Google’s G Suite finalizes Connected Sheets and introduces AI-driven data cleanup tools  VentureBeat
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Kanye West's 'Wash Us in the Blood' seeks spiritual fix for society's pain - New York Post

1. Kanye West's 'Wash Us in the Blood' seeks spiritual fix for society's pain  New York Post
2. Kanye West – Wash Us In The Blood feat. Travis Scott (Official Video)  Kanye West
3. Listen to “Wash Us in the Blood” [ft. Travis Scott] by Kanye West  Pitchfork
4. Kanye West drops 'Wash Us in the Blood,' his first new music since 'Jesus Is King'  Entertainment Weekly
5. North West Dances With Choir In New Music Video by Kanye West and Travis Scott  TooFab
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Prince Harry's 'increased spending' caused Prince William rift - Daily Mail

1. Prince Harry's 'increased spending' caused Prince William rift  Daily Mail
2. Meghan Markle & Prince Harry's INSANE Price For Public Speaking Revealed!  Clevver News
3. Kate Middleton and Prince William Show Off Lockdown Tans — and Princess Beatrice Has a New Hair Color!  PEOPLE
4. Meghan Markle 'embarrassed' Harry with pregnancy announcement, new book claims  MSN UK
5. Meghan Markle Has a Secret Tie to Prince Andrew  Yahoo! Voices
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New 'Call of Duty: Warzone' Season 4 Update Adds 200-Player Mode and More - HYPEBEAST

1. New 'Call of Duty: Warzone' Season 4 Update Adds 200-Player Mode and More  HYPEBEAST
2. Call of Duty: Warzone gets 200-player mode, new weapon  Polygon
3. Modern Warfare and Warzone June 29 Patch Update 1.23: Season 4 Reloaded  CharlieINTEL.com
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season Four Reloaded adds 200-player Warzone, more  PlayStation.Blog
5. ‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ matches expand to 200 players for a limited time  Engadget
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A Wild Apple ARM Benchmark Appears - Gizmodo

1. A Wild Apple ARM Benchmark Appears  Gizmodo
2. Developers leak benchmarks from the Apple silicon Mac transition kit  Ars Technica
3. First Taste of Apple on Arm: macOS Benchmarks Arrive, Sans x86  Tom's Hardware
4. Embarrassingly Apple's two-year old ARM chip benchmarks faster than Microsoft's Surface Pro X -  MSPoweruser
5. What WWDC20 tells us about where its device roadmap is going  Macworld
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Katy Perry Felt Suicidal After Orlando Bloom Split - Access

1. Katy Perry Felt Suicidal After Orlando Bloom Split  Access
2. Katy Perry says she felt suicidal during split from Orlando Bloom  CNN
3. Katy Perry reveals she had suicidal thoughts in 2017: 'I just crashed'  Yahoo Entertainment
4. Katy Perry says split from Orlando Bloom in 2017 sent her into a spiral: 'I just crashed'  USA TODAY
5. Katy Perry Says She ‘Crashed’ After Her 2017 Breakup With Orlando Bloom and the ‘Witness’ Album  Glamour
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Chase Rice Responds to Pandemic Concert Backlash, Asks Fans to ‘Go by the Rules’ - Rolling Stone

1. Chase Rice Responds to Pandemic Concert Backlash, Asks Fans to ‘Go by the Rules’  Rolling Stone
2. Crowded concert backlash  ABC News
3. Country Stars Chase Rice, Chris Janson Spark Outrage With Videos of Packed Concert Crowds  Yahoo Entertainment
4. Chase Rice says 'Please go by the rules' after being criticized for packed concert  CNN
5. Chase Rice facing backlash for packed East Tennessee concert  WATE 6 On Your Side
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Spencer Dinwiddie tests positive for COVID-19, his NBA restart status in doubt - The Athletic

1. Spencer Dinwiddie tests positive for COVID-19, his NBA restart status in doubt  The Athletic
2. Nets' Spencer Dinwiddie Tested Positive for COVID-19; NBA Restart Status Unclear  Bleacher Report
3. Nets' Spencer Dinwiddie tests positive for coronavirus, unclear if he'll play  New York Post
4. SHAMS: SPENCER DINWIDDIE TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19, EXPERIENCING SYMPTOMS  NetsDaily
5. Spencer Dinwiddie tests positive for coronavirus, status uncertain for restart at Disney, per report  CBS Sports
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Millions track the pandemic on Johns Hopkins’s dashboard. Those who built it say some miss the real story. - The Washington Post

1. Millions track the pandemic on Johns Hopkins’s dashboard. Those who built it say some miss the real story.  The Washington Post
2. More states reverse or slow reopening plans as coronavirus cases climb  CNBC
3. Coronavirus death toll surpasses 500,000 worldwide  CBS News
4. Worldwide coronavirus deaths pass 500,000 mark, Johns Hopkins University research shows  Fox News
5. Coronavirus update: 'The worst is yet to come,' WHO official says  ABC News
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Los Angeles County Beaches Ordered To Close For Fourth Of July Weekend Amid Coronavirus Spike - Deadline

1. Los Angeles County Beaches Ordered To Close For Fourth Of July Weekend Amid Coronavirus Spike  Deadline
2. LA County warns coronavirus case spike is 'alarming'  Fox News
3. Los Angeles County Coronavirus Sets New Record For Daily Coronavirus Cases As Total Infections Pass 100,000  Deadline
4. With coronavirus surge, L.A. County may run out of ICU beds  Los Angeles Times
5. L.A. County coronavirus cases surge past 100,000  Los Angeles Times
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Golden State Killer pleads guilty, admits to dozens of rapes, murders - Chicago Tribune

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Behind the Trump team’s U-turn, mounting fears about a mission-accomplished message - POLITICO

1. Behind the Trump team’s U-turn, mounting fears about a mission-accomplished message  POLITICO
2. As U.S. soars past 2.5 million coronavirus cases, Pence urges Americans to wear masks, social distance  The Washington Post
3. Birx tells governors she wants to try new large-scale COVID testing techniques  CBS News
4. Trump Administration Officials Discuss Coronavirus on Sunday Talk Shows  The New York Times
5. Analysis | Power Up: Worried Republicans urge Trump to change his tone. Again.  The Washington Post
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Russia Reinforces Foothold in Libya as Militia Leader Retreats - The Wall Street Journal

1. Russia Reinforces Foothold in Libya as Militia Leader Retreats  The Wall Street Journal
2. Libya: Haftar's forces mobilise mercenaries for Sirte battle  Al Jazeera English
3. Talks may lead to end of blockade of Libyan oilfields  The Guardian
4. Libya's NOC confirms international talks on resuming oil output  Reuters
5. Libya's GNA: 'Liberation' of Sirte, Jufra 'more urgent than ever'  Al Jazeera English
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Boris Johnson vows 'Rooseveltian approach' to UK coronavirus recovery, warns austerity would be 'mistake' - Fox News

1. Boris Johnson vows 'Rooseveltian approach' to UK coronavirus recovery, warns austerity would be 'mistake'  Fox News
2. Boris Johnson: Coronavirus has been 'a disaster' for the UK  Guardian News
3. Boris Johnson chides U.K. for being 'significantly fatter' than other nations  Politico
4. The Tories once said only they could keep us safe. Now they're the party of risk  The Guardian
5. Britain doesn't need buildings tomorrow, it needs jobs today  The Guardian
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Woman in NoHo Trader Joe’s no-mask tirade tells her side of the story - LA Daily News

1. Woman in NoHo Trader Joe’s no-mask tirade tells her side of the story  LA Daily News
2. Shopper at California Trader Joe’s refuses to wear mask, and confrontation goes viral  TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
3. Woman speaks out after tirade at Trader Joe's store in North Hollywood  KABC-TV
4. ROB ROSE: The big mask non-debate  Financial Mail
5. Woman speaks out after tirade at Trader Joe's store in North Hollywood  ABC7
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You may finally be able to watch Netflix in 4K on a Mac with Big Sur - The Verge

1. You may finally be able to watch Netflix in 4K on a Mac with Big Sur  The Verge
2. Safari can now stream 4K HDR and Dolby Vision content on Netflix with macOS Big Sur  9to5Mac
3. Rene Ritchie: macOS Big Sur redesign — Explained!  iMore
4. Counter point: macOS Big Sur is a fresh coat of paint on the same functionality offered in Windows  OnMSFT
5. Apple executives talk macOS Big Sur and Safari updates in interview on ‘Upgrade’ podcast  9to5Mac
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A right-wing group got pranked at a rally, and they believe Sacha Baron Cohen is behind it - CNN

1. A right-wing group got pranked at a rally, and they believe Sacha Baron Cohen is behind it  CNN
2. Booyakasha! Why Sacha Baron Cohen's latest prank nearly went horribly wrong  The Guardian
3. Sacha Baron Cohen's New Prank Apparently Wasn't For 'Who Is America?'  UPROXX
4. Sacha Baron Cohen crashes rally in downtown Olympia  KIRO Seattle
5. Sacha Baron Cohen Trolled a Right-Wing Event With a Ridiculous Singalong  Thrillist
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Dr. Dre’s Wife, Nicole Young, Files For Divorce After 24 Years Of Marriage - HuffPost

1. Dr. Dre’s Wife, Nicole Young, Files For Divorce After 24 Years Of Marriage  HuffPost
2. Dr. Dre and wife divorcing after 24 years of marriage  MSN Money
3. Dr. Dre's Wife Nicole Young Files for Divorce After 24 Years of Marriage  PEOPLE
4. Dr. Dre’s wife Nicole Young files for divorce after 24 years of marriage: reports  Fox News
5. Dr. Dre: Wife Nicole Young has filed for divorce after 24 years from the rapper  Daily Mail
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Coronavirus overwhelms Afghanistan’s war-ravaged hospitals

Corruption, medical supply shortages and militant attacks have deepened the country's health crisis.

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Coronavirus: How much does your boss need to know about you?

Firms are collecting a lot more information about staff as they try to contain coronavirus risks.

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Coronavirus: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Key West close beaches for July 4th weekend - USA TODAY

1. Coronavirus: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Key West close beaches for July 4th weekend  USA TODAY
2. South Florida Closing Beaches For Fourth Of July  Forbes
3. Florida Closes Beaches for July 4 Weekend as Coronavirus Cases Skyrocket  Newsweek
4. Miami-Dade coronavirus total surpasses 35,000. Florida reports 5,266 additional cases  Miami Herald
5. Miami to impose minimum 10-day shutdown for businesses violating COVID-19 regulations  Miami Herald
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Ex-cops charged in George Floyd's death appear in court as judge warns he may move trial - CBS News

1. Ex-cops charged in George Floyd's death appear in court as judge warns he may move trial  CBS News
2. Ex-Minneapolis officers charged in George Floyd's killing get tentative trial date in March  MSN Money
3. Judge's warning: George Floyd trial may be moved  AOL
4. Judge warns of possible move of trial in Floyd killing  Minnesota Public Radio News
5. 4 ex-police officers charged in George Floyd's death set to appear in court Monday  CBS This Morning
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Orange County Democrats push to have John Wayne's name and statue removed from California airport - CBS News

1. Orange County Democrats push to have John Wayne's name and statue removed from California airport  CBS News
2. Democrats want John Wayne Airport renamed after 'I believe in white supremacy' interview resurfaces  CNN
3. John Wayne’s son responds to resolution calling for John Wayne Airport to be renamed  Fox News
4. Leaders want John Wayne name, statue gone from Orange County airport  NBC News
5. Are California Dems Trying to Change the Name of John Wayne Airport?  Snopes.com
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UN's Michelle Bachelet says Israel's annexation plans 'illegal' - Al Jazeera English

UN's Michelle Bachelet says Israel's annexation plans 'illegal'  Al Jazeera English

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Gilead Science releases pricing plan for COVID-19 drug Remdesivir - One America News Network

1. Gilead Science releases pricing plan for COVID-19 drug Remdesivir  One America News Network
2. Gilead sets U.S. price for Covid-19 drug remdesivir at $3120 for typical treatment  CNBC Television
3. Gilead prices COVID-19 drug remdesivir at $2,340 per patient in developed nations  Yahoo Finance
4. Gilead Sets a Good-Enough Bar With Covid-Treatment Price  Bloomberg
5. Dr. Marc Siegel: Coronavirus defense — as numbers rise, promising drug Remdesivir cleared for use  Fox News
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