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Today's Top News Compilation - Wednesday, June 24, 2020

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Below are some of the top political news stories of the day:

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Barr to testify as Democrats examine DOJ politicization
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Senate police reform vote fails as Democrats reject Republican bill
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U.S. hits highest single day of coronavirus cases at 36,358, breaking April record
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Biden opens up lead in Wisconsin, tied with Trump in Ohio: polls
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Despite surge warning from top health officials, Trump repeats coronavirus 'going away,' uses racist description
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Election results are delayed again. Get used to it.
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Trump administration defends defunding COVID testing in Texas, four other states
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White supremacist terrorism 'on the rise and spreading,' State Dept. says in new report
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Police overhaul dims as GOP Senate bill blocked by Democrats
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Trump vows to protect statues of US presidents, Jesus Christ
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'The explosion has to slow down': Texas hospitals on edge as coronavirus cases surge
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Trump and Barr say mail-in voting will lead to fraud. Experts say that's not true
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Democratic super PAC is joining Trump-TV station lawsuit
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Trump says US 'probably' will move troops from Germany to Poland, slams Berlin for owing 'lot of money' to NATO
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Trump says very happy about court of appeals decision on former aide Flynn
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Appeals court orders dismissal of Michael Flynn prosecution
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How police reform collapsed in the Senate
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School-leavers losing their lives for Russia in Putin's war with Ukraine

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Russia has promised that no 18-year-olds will be sent to fight in Ukraine, but the BBC finds many have already been killed.
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World's thirst for matcha dries up global supplies

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Surging demand, smaller tea crops due to heatwaves and US tariffs on Japan are pushing up matcha prices.
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Southwest flight plummets, injuring flight attendants

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The drastic manoeuvre was necessary to avoid collision with another plane, according to reports.
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UK condemns Hong Kong cash offer for help in arresting activists

  • News source: BBC News - World
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David Lammy and Yvette Cooper describe the bounties as "another example of transnational repression".
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Tee time with Trump - striking balls and deals over 18 holes

  • News source: BBC News - World
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For some US presidents, golf was a break from work - but for Trump, visiting Scotland this weekend, it is anything but.
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What is inside the GHF aid box being distributed in Gaza

  • News source: BBC News - World
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BBC Verify examines the meals handed out to Gazans - and their nutritional value is questioned by some experts.
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Thais and Cambodians slug it out on social media, as border tensions flare

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A war of words is raging on social media, a years-long battleground for Thais and Cambodians.
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Artist explores the toxic mining legacy of Zambia's 'black mountains'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A major exhibition about the dangerous lives of the boys and young men who scour slag heaps in search of copper.
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More than 20% of NASA's workforce requests to leave agency

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Nearly 4,000 employees, or more than 20% of NASA's workforce, have applied to leave the agency, NASA confirmed to CBS News Friday.

About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, NASA disclosed.

The deadline for applications to the program is midnight Friday.

With those deferred resignations, NASA's civil servant workforce would shrink from about 18,000 to 14,000 personnel. This figure also includes about 500 employees who were lost through normal attrition, the...
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Trump admin offers $608M for states to build migrant camps modeled after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration is offering $608 million to states willing to expand migrant detention efforts.

The money, announced through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) new Detention Support Grant Program (DEP), is aimed at helping states build or enlarge temporary detention facilities modeled after Florida’s Everglades compound known as "Alligator Alcatraz," according to FEMA documents.

"[Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Kristi Noem has been very clear that Alligator Alcatraz can be a blueprint for other states and local...
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Trump administration releases over $6B in frozen education funds to the states

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration is releasing roughly $6.8 billion in previously frozen federal funds for K-12 programs, the Department of Education announced Friday. The announcement was made as Secretary Linda McMahon attended the National Governors Association (NGA) Summer Meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) "has completed its review of Title I-C, Title II-A, Title III-A and Title IV-A ESEA funds and Title II WIOA funds and has directed the Department to release all formula funds. The agency will begin...
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Trans bathroom policies have 10 days to go, Trump Education Department warns 5 Virginia school districts

  • News source: FOX News
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The Department of Education is giving five northern Virginia school districts ten days to fix their transgender bathroom policies or face "enforcement action," the agency said Friday.

Public school districts in Loudoun County, Fairfax County, Prince William County, Alexandria City and Arlington were all found to be in violation of Title IX after an investigation by the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights that began in February, according to a press release shared Friday.

The release cited a June ruling by the Supreme Court, which the...
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'I witnessed war crimes' in Gaza, former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
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'I'm so tired': Mother of starving Gazan baby speaks to BBC

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Hedaya al-Muta'wi's 18-month-old son Mohammed suffers from malnutrition due to famine, weighing just 6kg.
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Breaking down latest Justice Department shakeup

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Alina Habba, a one-time personal lawyer to President Trump, has been appointed to the top federal prosecutor job in New Jersey. Meanwhile, two federal prosecutors who had handled cases related to the attacks of Jan. 6, along with the top ethics watchdog at the department., have been fired. Scott MacFarlane has details.
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