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Today's Top News Compilation - Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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Below are some of the top political news stories of the day: ¯\_(?)_/¯

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White House steps up effort to downplay coronavirus concerns
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Trump signs order on police reform after weeks of protests about racial injustice
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Trump pushes ahead with Tulsa rally, while Pence misleads and coronavirus cases rise
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Media fast-track Trump’s slow walk, speculate about health
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Trump uses 'AIDS vaccine' as proof scientists can develop COVID-19 vaccine
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's father dies from COVID complications
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Powell's warning on pandemic clashes with Trump's upbeat tweets
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North Korea bombs inter-Korean liaison office near border amid growing tensions
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U.S. sues former Trump adviser Bolton to block book publication
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Coronavirus: AstraZeneca ready to supply potential vaccine in September
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DNC's attack ad called out over 'false narratives' on children in 'cages,' Trump's Charlottesville remarks
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Watchdogs say Trump admin limiting oversight of virus aid
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McConnell to keep grip on GOP even if Republicans lose Senate
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As leaders warned of US meat shortages, overseas exports of pork and beef continued
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Trump says Obama didn't reform policing — but he did. Then the president ditched it.
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Record spike in new coronavirus cases reported in six U.S. states as reopening accelerates
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Federal judge blocks Alabama voting restrictions ahead of July runoff...

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Trump signs GENIUS Act, first federal law regulating crypto

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump held a signing ceremony at the White House on Friday after Congress passed the GENIUS Act, a landmark federal law that will regulate cryptocurrency. Specifically, the GENIUS Act will set government guidelines for the cryptocurrency known as stablecoin. Nikhilesh De, managing editor for global policy and regulation for the cryptocurrency news site CoinDesk, was at the signing and has more.
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Immigration crackdown causing labor shortages to California's construction industry

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Los Angeles — One construction site in Los Angeles has just about everything needed to build a traditional family home. Everything, that is, except enough workers.

"We have probably three people on site, four people on site, and normally, we'd have about double, about eight to 10 people," general contractor Jason Pietruszka told CBS News. "They're hiding. People aren't will to coming to work."

Pietruszka said he only hires builders here in the country legally, but that he also relies on companies that employ highly skilled, undocumented labor...
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ICE director explains Medicaid data use and agency's efforts "to gain intelligence"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons tells CBS News that the agency's access to personal data of Medicaid enrollees will help officers locate "people that have been lawfully deported" by a judge or released from a sanctuary jurisdiction. Watch more of Lyons' interview with CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez Sunday on "Face the Nation."
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California's construction industry hurt by ICE raids, builder says

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump's immigration crackdown is causing labor shortages for California's construction industry. The shortages come at a time when Los Angeles is trying to rebuild after January's devastating wildfires. Carter Evans reports.
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Israel, Syrian leaders agree to ceasefire, U.S. envoy says

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The leaders of Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire following recent Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital, a U.S. envoy said Friday, as he urged all sides in war-torn Syria to lay down arms.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa "have agreed to a ceasefire" also backed by neighbors Turkey and Jordan, said Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey who is also point man on Syria, in a social media post.

"We call upon Druze, Bedouins, and Sunnis to put down their weapons and together with other...
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Examining the decision to end "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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CBS announced Thursday that it was ending "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in 2026 and would also be sunsetting "The Late Show" franchise, calling it "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night." Jim Axelrod has more.
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Why the Epstein case looms large in MAGA world

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A subset of Trump supporters are passionate about the case - and angry at the president.
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Why Prada – and other luxury brands – keep getting India wrong

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A controversy involving Prada has put the spotlight on how global fashion giants engage with India.
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Microsoft ends use of China-based computer engineers for certain Defense Dept projects amid espionage fears

  • News source: FOX News
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Microsoft said it will cease using China-based computer engineering teams for work on Pentagon cloud systems and other classified systems after an investigation this week led to national security concerns at the highest levels over a program that Microsoft has used since 2016.

A ProPublica report released Tuesday accused Microsoft of allowing China-based engineers to assist with Pentagon cloud systems with inadequate guardrails in an effort to scale up its government contracting business.

The report got the attention of GOP lawmakers and the Trump...
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Dem mayor mocked for pushing ICE kidnapping story that ended up being alleged hoax

  • News source: FOX News
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Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, a critic of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, is being mocked for pushing a story about an LA woman being kidnapped by ICE that ended up allegedly being an elaborate hoax.

The Department of Homeland Security posted on its official X account on Friday, "Mayor, you pushed a HOAX. There is still time to delete this."

This comes after Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, a 41-year-old Mexican illegal alien living in Los Angeles, was charged with conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers...
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Trump files $10 billion lawsuit over Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Epstein report

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump on Friday filed a libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal's publisher and its leader, Rupert Murdoch, after the paper published a story on what it called a "bawdy" birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that the paper alleged was signed by Mr. Trump.

The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, seeks at least $10 billion in damages. It alleges the paper's claims were "false, defamatory, unsubstantiated, and disparaging," and accuses the Journal of "clear journalistic failures."

The paper claimed the letter, from the...
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US tech firm investigating after Coldplay concert embrace goes viral

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Big screen footage of the two people went viral after reports they were colleagues and at least one was married to another person.
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North Korea bans foreigners from seaside resort weeks after opening

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Tourism authorities say foreigners are "temporarily" not allowed to visit the Wonsan Kalma resort.
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Christian university rebranding DEI to evade Trump order, enroll illegals, Tennessee rep says

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is demanding an investigation into Belmont University after leaked recordings of a university faculty member admitting the school has maintained its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives but "just change[d] on how we talk about it" despite federal directives to end the programs deemed by many to be discriminatory.

In undercover recordings, the same official can be heard admitting the school also enrolls illegal immigrants and hides that information from external entities, which Ogles suggested could violate...
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Americans detained in Venezuela freed and returning home after prisoner exchange

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Ten Americans are returning to the U.S. after being released from custody in Venezuela, the Secretary of State said on Friday.

"Thanks to President [Donald] Trump’s leadership and commitment to the American people, the United States welcomes home ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. "Until today, more Americans were wrongfully held in Venezuela than any other country in the world. It is unacceptable that Venezuelan regime representatives arrested and jailed U.S. nationals under highly...
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