Quotation of the Day: Rosy Hopes Meet Reality of Coronavirus Surge as Voting Starts in Texas

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China Passes Security Law With Sweeping Powers Over Hong Kong

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Fight for the Things You Care About

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China passes controversial Hong Kong security law

Beijing has passed the law, the BBC has learned, deepening fears for the city's freedoms.

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Coronavirus-hit Arizona reverses course on reopening

Arizona emerges as a new US virus epicentre, joining other Sun Belt states like Florida and Texas.

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Google says it has removed search ads linking to sites that charged US users large fees for voter registration or harvested their data, after a watchdog report (Elizabeth Culliford/Reuters)

Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
Google says it has removed search ads linking to sites that charged US users large fees for voter registration or harvested their data, after a watchdog report  —  (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Monday that it had removed search ads that charged users searching …

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Kweichow Moutai: 'Elite' alcohol brand is China's most valuable firm

Kweichow Moutai's share price rockets thanks to its popular and sought-after baijiu drink.

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Venezuela tells EU ambassador to leave country

Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa's expulsion comes after the EU placed sanctions on 11 Venezuelan officials.

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Hulu, Samsung have pulled apps focused on 360-degree videos, as Oculus sunsets its 360-video optimized Go headset; Facebook: the future is more immersive 6DOF (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)

Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Hulu, Samsung have pulled apps focused on 360-degree videos, as Oculus sunsets its 360-video optimized Go headset; Facebook: the future is more immersive 6DOF  —  Samsung is done with VR video: The company will remove its Samsung XR app, which aggregated 360-degree videos from publishers …

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Sources: Uber has made a takeover offer to buy Postmates in a deal that could be reached as early as Monday evening (New York Times)

New York Times:
Sources: Uber has made a takeover offer to buy Postmates in a deal that could be reached as early as Monday evening  —  The ride-hailing company has been trying to expand its food-delivery business to compensate for the collapse of its main business.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Uber …

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Francis Bacon Triptych Sells for $84.6 Million

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Judge Rejects U.S. Effort to Hold Palestinian Man After Prison Term

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Uber Makes Offer to Buy Postmates Delivery Service

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AWS makes CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs and suggest potential optimizations, generally available (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS makes CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs and suggest potential optimizations, generally available  —  AWS today announced that CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs …

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‘It’s More Than a Seat at the Table’

By BY JENNIFER MEDINA from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3ioBZjI

A White Gatekeeper of Southern Food Faces Calls to Resign

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Remote School Is a Nightmare. Few in Power Care.

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In Texas, Voting Reflects Partisan Split Over How to Deal With Virus

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Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

By BY JONATHAN WOLFE AND LARA TAKENAGA from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3dLG6CS

‘Our Luck May Have Run Out’: California’s Case Count Explodes

By BY SHAWN HUBLER AND THOMAS FULLER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3ePoVl6

Three Hikers Are Missing on Mount Rainier

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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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Pakistan attack: 'Gunmen killed' in raid on stock exchange in Karachi

Armed men storm the country's financial hub, killing at least two before police shoot them dead.

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Brexit: Where are we now?

It's been out of the headlines for the past few months, but Brexit is back on the political menu.

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What’s on TV Monday: ‘And She Could Be Next’ and ‘The Sommerdahl Murders’

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Coronavirus, Russian Bounties, Poland’s Election: Your Monday Briefing

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VIRUS fader

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Bagged Salads Recalled After Hundreds Are Sickened in the Midwest

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Hebei: China locks down 400,000 people after virus spike near Beijing

It's a small spike in Hebei near Beijing - but enough for officials to reinstate a strict lockdown.

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Apple's decision in Feb. to limit HTTPS certs' lifespan to 398 days in Safari has been mimicked by Chrome and Firefox to the dismay of Certificate Authorities (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Apple's decision in Feb. to limit HTTPS certs' lifespan to 398 days in Safari has been mimicked by Chrome and Firefox to the dismay of Certificate Authorities  —  Apple, Google, and Mozilla reduce the lifespan for HTTPS certificates to 398 days, against the wishes of Certificate Authorities.

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‘Perry Mason’ Season 1, Episode 2: In the Trenches

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‘Feeling Like Death’: Inside a Houston Hospital Bracing for a Virus Peak

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Patriots Sign Cam Newton as N.F.L. Levies Fine in Video Scandal

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As Republicans flock to Parler, its user base has grown 50% to 1.5M in about a week, according to CEO, who says it's trying to pay liberals on Twitter to join (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC:
As Republicans flock to Parler, its user base has grown 50% to 1.5M in about a week, according to CEO, who says it's trying to pay liberals on Twitter to join  —  - Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said.

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Dustin Johnson Splashed and Rallied to a Travelers Championship Win

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Patriots Sign Cam Newton to One-Year Deal

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Defenders of Roosevelt Statue Converge on Natural History Museum

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Three Words. 70 Cases. The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe.’

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Mask Exemption Cards From the ‘Freedom to Breathe Agency’? They’re Fake

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How the world celebrated 50 years of Pride - despite the pandemic

Most LGBT Pride events were cancelled or moved online because of coronavirus, but not all.

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Trump Denies Briefing on Reported Russian Bounties Against US Troops

President Donald Trump on Sunday denied that he had been briefed on reported U.S. intelligence that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan, and he appeared to minimize the allegations against Moscow.

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Marty Baron Made The Post Great Again. Now, the News Is Changing.

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Yes, Even George Washington

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Coronavirus: Where are global cases rising and falling?

As the world hits the grim milestone of 10 million confirmed cases, which countries are seeing the biggest rises, and what might be behind them?

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'How George Floyd's death changed my Chinese students'

Some students at Jasmine Cochrane's school in China found it hard to trust a black teacher. George Floyd's death made a huge difference.

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What’s on TV Sunday: The BET Awards and ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’

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1 Dead After Man Shoots Into Crowd at Breonna Taylor Protest Park

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saturday

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Agora, which helps app developers embed real-time voice and video communication, closed up 153% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $350M in its IPO at $20/share (Russell Flannery/Forbes)

Russell Flannery / Forbes:
Agora, which helps app developers embed real-time voice and video communication, closed up 153% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $350M in its IPO at $20/share  —  Grocery chain Albertsons might have been the best-known IPO in the U.S. this week among American investors …

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China’s New National Security Law Looms Over Hong Kong

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Coronavirus: How Delhi 'wasted' lockdown to become India's biggest hotspot

India's capital now has the country's highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases.

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France-based startup ubble, which prompts users to capture a live video of their face and an official ID to verify identity, raises €10M seed round (Robin Wauters/Tech.eu)

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:
France-based startup ubble, which prompts users to capture a live video of their face and an official ID to verify identity, raises €10M seed round  —  A fledgling French identity verification tech startup that goes by the name of ubble has raised seed funding from Partech and Breega …

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Biden Criticizes Trump Over Intelligence on Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops

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Quotation of the Day: For Black NASCAR Fans, It Can Be Lonely at the Track

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Mississippi Votes to Remove Confederate Emblem from State Flag

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2 Dead in Shooting at Walmart Distribution Center in California, Official Says

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