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Who are the Proud Boys, the group Trump told to 'stand back and stand by'? Created in 2016 by a former Vice magazine co-founder, the group has become a fixture at political demonstrations around the country, often showing up wielding batons, bear spray and firearms, ready to do battle with their perceived enemies in the far-left antifa ...
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Lakers vs. Heat NBA Finals: How Anthony Davis' passing has helped solve one of Los Angeles' biggest problems Every LeBron James team has the same weakness: His teams forget to play without him. This has even been true with superstar teammates. In three seasons with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love in Cleveland, the Cavaliers were at least 16.1 points worse per 100 ...
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Dickerson homers as Marlins beat Cubs 5-1 in playoff opener CHICAGO (AP) — Corey Dickerson hit a three-run homer off a fading Kyle Hendricks in the seventh inning, and the Miami Marlins beat the Chicago Cubs 5-1 on Wednesday in Game 1 of their NL wild-card series. Jesús Aguilar also homered and Sandy ...
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Trump administration planning to put up billboards of immigration violators ahead of election (CNN) The Trump administration is considering putting up billboards of immigration violators, an unprecedented move in lockstep with the President's law-and-order message ahead of the election, according to two sources familiar with the proposal. President ...
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US stocks end third quarter on a high note, despite rocky September Wall Street wrapped up the third quarter on a high note Wednesday, even as a maelstrom of uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and stimulus hopes weighed on investors. Better-than-expected jobs data, progress toward a possible coronavirus treatment ...
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Man Charged With Attempting to Murder Two Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputies A man was charged on Wednesday with shooting two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies who were sitting in their patrol car, an attack that was captured on video and that prompted widespread condemnation, including from both presidential candidates.
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MLB will allow fans at NLCS and World Series MLB will allow fans at NLCS and World Series originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington. Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that a limited number of fans will be allowed into the National League Championship Series and World Series.
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Google's new phones pare back features — and prices — for pandemic times Google has decided to stop trying so hard with its latest smartphones. The company's newest Pixel phones are adding next-generation 5G connectivity but, in an unusual move, also downgraded some flashier features on all models. This year's phones ...
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How to help young children get the most out of online school Another day in Zoom school, another meltdown and another reminder of what parents already know: Online school is especially challenging for younger students. There's a reason children from kindergarten through third grade spent much of their ...
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Chris Watts Netflix Documentary Goes Behind The Scenes Of Colorado Family Murder Investigation FREDERICK, Colo. (CBS4) – A Netflix documentary covering the 2018 Watts murder case in Frederick launched on Wednesday. The murders of Shanann, Bella and Celeste Watts gained international attention immediately after they disappeared. Chris Watts ...
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Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale Defends The Newly Public Data Mining Company Amid Ongoing Criticism Palantir Technologies, the once-secretive data mining company, went public through a direct listing on Wednesday, hitting a market capitalization just north of $20 billion on its first day of trading Wednesday. The journey to IPO has been bumpy and at times ...
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Xbox Game Pass vs PlayStation Plus Collection: Which should you get? It's finally here: the latest generation of video game consoles. The Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will finally arrive in just over a month. Now that you've had some time to deliberate on which console you'd like to have and (hopefully) secure a preorder, ...
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Communism, Cubans and Cage Fighters: Trump's Latest Florida Campaign Strategy The Trump campaign's latest reelection strategy combines communism, Cubans and cage fighting in a way that only a play on the state of Florida could prove successful – and that's precisely the point. [. READ: The Voters Who Could Decide Who Wins Florida ].
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Ex-UAW president Dennis Williams: 'I deliberately looked away' when it came to corruption When he had the chance to do the right thing, Dennis Williams looked the other way. The one-time head of the UAW admitted Wednesday to a federal judge that he suspected the money that was paying for his golf, meals and other goodies connected to ...
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Political Dispute Deepens Over Anti-Outbreak Plan for Madrid By ARITZ PARRA, Associated Press. MADRID (AP) — The government of Madrid, the region in Europe where a second coronavirus wave is expanding at the fastest rate, rejected a Spanish government plan Wednesday that imposes stricter mobility curbs and ...
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With State Moratorium Set To Expire, Tenant Advocates Fear Widespread Evictions With Gov. Charlie Baker appearing poised to allow the state's eviction moratorium to expire in two weeks, activists are ramping up pressure on the Legislature to pass a bill that would not only ban evictions, but freeze rents for a year past the end of the ...
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Page High is second Williamson school to close this week due to COVID-19 Page High School is the fourth school to be shut down this school year due to the spread of COVID-19, Williamson County Schools announced on Wednesday, just a day after Independence High School also closed its campus. The attendance rate at PHS ...
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COVID-19 updates: 285 new cases reported in Dallas County Dallas County reported 285 new positive cases Wednesday, two of which were from August, according to the state health department. That is a significant decrease compared to the 772 new cases reported on Tuesday in the county. The additional two deaths ...
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Gov. Newsom mandates diversity on California company boards with stroke of a pen California companies are now on notice: hire diverse board members, or else. That is the message Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature sent Wednesday with the governor's signing of AB979 into law. The legislation mandates that public companies ...
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County health departments & health care providers across OK to start offering flu vaccine OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – County health departments and health care providers throughout Oklahoma will begin offering seasonal flu vaccinations starting Thursday, Oct. 1. "Almost everyone 6 months of age and older should get a flu vaccine every year.
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Assange Bugged While at Ecuadorian Embassy, UK Court Told By PAN PYLAS, Associated Press. LONDON (AP) — Julian Assange's conversations in the latter part of his 7-year stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London were systematically bugged, even in the toilet, a London court heard Wednesday. In written ...
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Cleveland thanks police, protesters for keeping it civil, may be blueprint for future presidential debates CLEVELAND, Ohio – Mayor Frank Jackson and leaders of his safety team issued thanks Wednesday to those who participated in activities around Tuesday's presidential debate – both police and protesters -- for allowing Cleveland to shine while the nation ...
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North Carolina to move into Phase 3 on Friday RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina will move into Phase 3 at 5 p.m. on Friday with the beginning of October. The state will remain in Phase 3 at least until Oct. 23 unless the latest executive order is rescinded. Governor Roy Cooper made the announcement ...
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The Fed's Latest Dividend Decision Makes It Hard to Love Big Bank Stocks Bank investors will have to wait a little longer for share repurchases to resume. The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was extending restrictions on share repurchases and dividends for the largest banks—those with more than $100 billion in ...
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Indiana absentee ballot deadline extended ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - A federal judge has stepped in to make sure a ballot correctly cast is a ballot counted in Indiana's November election. Due to the coronavirus, there's a lot more interest in voting through the mail-but perhaps a lack of ...
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What to know about Call of Duty: Cold War Zombies reveal, Die Maschine, cross-platform play The dead rise again in Call of Duty. On Sept. 30, Treyarch revealed the official return of the ever-popular Zombies game mode to its upcoming COD installment "Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War." The Zombies mode returns with a new story and a few new ...
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Columbia releases guidelines for Halloween during coronavirus pandemic COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ). The City of Columbia is encouraging people to stay safe for Halloween during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The city released a document Wednesday with guidelines for people to celebrate safely, and the different risk levels of ...
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NASCAR schedule 2021: Bristol dirt race, road courses headline Cup Series changes for next season The NASCAR 2021 schedule release will surely get racing fans talking — there are more road races, two regular tracks gone from the schedule entirely and. for the first time in the modern era, NASCAR will race on dirt. Bristol Motor Speedway will play host to ...
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Allstate cutting 3800 jobs The Northbrook-based insurance giant is eliminating 8 percent of its workforce in a move that CEO Tom Wilson said is necessary to become more price-competitive. Steve Daniels · Tweet · Share; More. Share · Email · Reprints Print. Allstate. Bloomberg.
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How to see the full moons on Oct. 1 and Halloween Get ready to gaze on the first of two full moons slated for October; the first will dazzle sky watchers this Thursday (Oct. 1) and the second will shine eerily later this month on Halloween (Oct. 31). It's rare to have two full moons in one month. To mark the ...
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Patrick Mahomes and his fiancée are going to be parents soon Patrick Mahomes and fiancée Brittany Matthews are expecting their first child. (CNN) Patrick Mahomes will soon be a dad. The Kansas City ...
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Disney to lay off thousands at the 'happiest place on Earth' ORLANDO, FLA. — Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida. Two-thirds of the planned ...
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Nikola Scrambles to Quell Controversy as GM Delays $2 Billion Manufacturing Deal Hydrogen electric truck startup Nikola is facing more troubles as the company grapples with the fallout of recent short-seller attacks and the abrupt resignation of founder and chairman Trevor Milton. Nikola's latest investor and manufacturing partner, General ...
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'Humanity waging war on nature': UN chief UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned humanity must stop "waging war on nature" at the United Nations' first ever summit on the biodiversity crisis on Wednesday. He said one consequence of the imbalance with nature – caused by deforestation, ...
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Winners and losers of the 2020 NHL playoff bubbles The 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs took 65 days, 24 teams, five playoff rounds, two "bubbles" and, most important, 33,394 COVID-19 tests that returned zero positive results, according to the NHL -- and that's not even mentioning the 20,000 or so iced cappuccinos ...
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Murphy to visit Ocean County Friday amid scramble to contain Lakewood outbreak Gov. Phil Murphy and state health officials will visit Ocean County on Friday to address a resurgence in coronavirus cases centered around Lakewood in recent days. Calling the Ocean County outbreak "our main focus right now," Murphy said he had spoken ...
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Vermont in a five-way tie for best US Census response With 99.9% of Vermonters counted in the 2020 Census, federal data puts the state in a five-way tie for highest Census response. But as the actual end date of the Census remains up in the air, the head of the Vermont Complete Count Commission has mixed ...
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US embassy worker in Ukraine dies after suspected park assault KYIV (Reuters) - An American woman working at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine's capital Kyiv died after a suspected assault in a park near the mission, authorities said, and a search was underway for the possible perpetrator. Ukrainian police said a passerby ...
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Neanderthal genes may increase likelihood of suffering for COVID patients, study says BERLIN, Germany — Scientists say genes that some people have inherited from their Neanderthal ancestors may increase their likelihood of suffering severe forms of COVID-19. A study by European scientists published Wednesday by the journal Nature ...
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Ford Recalls Over 700000 Vehicles Over Faulty Cameras Ford (F) - Get Report said on Wednesday that it would recall more than 700,000 vehicles in North America due to a fault in their backup cameras, which could show distorted images or suddenly go dark. The affected vehicles have insufficient electrical ...
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Merkel Calls for Quick End to Expansive German Debt Spending Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Germany will return to normal spending levels as soon as possible as she defended the country's unprecedented borrowing to overcome the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Germany had reduced debt levels to the ...
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'Conan The Barbarian' series in development at Netflix Conan the barbarian could be on his way to Netflix. The streamer is developing a live-action series based on the iconic character created by Robert E. Howard, Variety has confirmed. Conan first appeared in comic books way back in the 1930s, and has ...
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Marine pilot in collision praised for keeping crew safe SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marine Corps officials say the pilot of a fuel tanker showed impressive skills when he touched down safely in a remote area of California and prevented injuries among the seven other crew members after a mid-air collision with a fighter jet ...
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FAA chief pilots Boeing's 737 MAX in Seattle as ungrounding nears Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Steve Dickson on Wednesday is fulfilling a promise he made just months after taking command of the regulatory agency in the midst of Boeing's 737 MAX crisis. "I am not going to sign off on this aircraft until I fly it ...
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UK Covid Outbreak Is Not Under Control, Government Warns (Bloomberg) -- The U.K.'s coronavirus outbreak is not under control as hospitalization and death rates rise, Boris Johnson's chief scientist said. "Numbers of cases are going up, hospitalizations are going up, ICUs are going up, and unfortunately, very sadly so ...
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Spain rebuffs Turkey's 'unilateral' gas search, backs Cyprus NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Spain's foreign minister says her country rejects Turkey's unilateral search for energy reserves in the eastern Mediterranean and that negotiations are the proper way to resolve a territorial dispute that has ratcheted up regional ...
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'Not enough evidence': CBI court acquits Advani, 31 other accused in Babri Masjid demolition case A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Lucknow on Wednesday acquitted all 32 accused in the nearly three-decades-old criminal case related to the Babri Masjid demolition. Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, ...
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Azerbaijan, Armenia no closer to ending clashes after 4 days YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh has continued for a fourth straight day as statements from both sides indicating that the flare-up of a decades-old conflict ...
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