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New York Yankees advance, beat Cleveland Indians in longest 9-inning game in MLB history CLEVELAND -- It took the New York Yankees nearly five hours on the field, carried them from Wednesday to Thursday and September into October to complete the sweep. They stumbled into the 2020 postseason. They're standing tall now. DJ LeMahieu's ...
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Jacinda Ardern Admits Having Used Cannabis. New Zealanders Shrug: 'Us Too.' SYDNEY, Australia — The question from the debate moderator in New Zealand was simple and to the point: "Jacinda Ardern, have you ever used cannabis?" "Yes I did," said Ms. Ardern, the country's popular prime minister, "a long time ago." The moderator ...
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Trump signs stopgap spending measure to avert a shutdown President Donald Trump signed a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown early Thursday morning after briefly missing the midnight deadline for his signature, averting an unlikely but potentially disastrous scenario that would kneecap federal ...
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Alexei Navalny blames Vladimir Putin for poisoning him Leading Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny says he believes President Vladimir Putin was responsible for his poisoning. "I assert that Putin is behind this act, I don't see any other explanation," he told German news magazine Der Spiegel in an ...
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Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates 96th birthday ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter marks his 96th birthday Thursday, the latest milestone for the longest lived of the 44 men to hold the highest American office. Carter planned to celebrate at his home in Plains, Georgia, with his wife of 74 years, ...
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EU takes action over UK's blow to Brexit bill BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union launched a legal case against the United Kingdom on Thursday for undercutting their earlier divorce deal and a senior UK minister said differences remained in talks on a post-Brexit trade agreement.
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Cyprus demands Turkey sanctions at EU summit, stalls on Belarus BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Cyprus defied mounting pressure on Thursday to approve European Union sanctions on Belarus ahead of a summit, urging fellow EU governments to also sanction Turkey over its oil and gas drilling in the Mediterranean. FILE PHOTO: ...
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It's cheaper than ever to rent an entire movie theater New York (CNN Business) 2020 has been rough for movie fans: Many blockbuster films have been delayed, theaters were closed for months and even now, attending newly reopened movie houses requires accepting a degree of risk. It's been even rougher ...
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The Pixel 5 and 4A 5G play it safe Google's fall hardware presentation was a slickly-produced 30-minute affair with four products, as expected. You can experience it with our liveblog here or catch up on the biggest announcements here. Outside of some very neat software tricks, there were no ...
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Kim Jong Un's New Look Is More Man Than Superhuman North Korea's myth machine shifts gears as leader apologizes and admits missteps, breaking from practices of father and grandfather. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a flood-hit village in North Hwanghae province, in this image released Sep. 11.
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Questions mount as release of grand jury recordings in Breonna Taylor case delayed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed a motion to delay the release of audio recordings related to the Breonna Taylor case on Wednesday, adding to a mounting list of questions that followed a grand jury's decision to charge only one of the three ...
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Trump set to miss required deadline for 2021 refugee quota FILE - This Feb. 10, 2017, file photo, Abdisellam Hassen Ahmed, a Somali refugee who had been stuck in limbo after President Donald Trump temporarily banned refugee entries, walks with his wife Nimo Hashi, and his 2-year-old daughter, Taslim, who he ...
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Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman sentenced to almost seven years in prison in NXIVM sex trafficking case Clare Bronfman was a self-described socially anxious multimillionaire with "patterns of self-loathing, insecurities, shame and fears" until she discovered NXIVM, a self-improvement group based near Albany, N.Y., in 2003. Support our journalism. Subscribe ...
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New York Becomes the First Big City to Reopen All Its Schools New York City is reopening all its public schools on Thursday in a milestone for the city's recovery from its position as the global epicenter of the pandemic and a hopeful sign for the country's unsteady effort to return children to classrooms. Middle and high ...
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Stricter Covid rules in Liverpool and north-east England A ban on different households meeting will be introduced amid further restrictions for the north of England after a spike in coronavirus cases. It will be illegal to meet in settings, such as pubs and restaurants, in the Liverpool City Region, Warrington, Hartlepool ...
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Bed Bath & Beyond Goes Positive As Online Soars 89% An expanded E-commerce business — up 89% — was once again the hero this quarter for Bed Bath & Beyond, driving the home specialty chain's first comp store sales increase since the end of its 2016 fiscal year. At the same time the retailer posted ...
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Push to Bring Coronavirus Vaccines to the Poor Faces Trouble By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT, Associated Press. LONDON (AP) — An ambitious humanitarian project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world's poorest people is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration and vaccines ...
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PM's father Stanley Johnson pictured in shop without face covering The prime minister's father, Stanley Johnson, has been pictured shopping without a face covering, breaking current Covid-19 restrictions. Mr Johnson - a former Tory MEP - has apologised, claiming he may not be "100% up to speed" with current rules after ...
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The police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is crowdfunding money to retire Taylor, an emergency room technician, died from multiple gunshot wounds sustained in the botched raid. Now, Cosgrove is seeking funds on the "Christian crowdfunding site" GiveSendGo so he can "purchase the remainder of his service time" and retire, ...
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'Ma Rainey's' First Look: Viola Davis, Denzel Washington Praise Chadwick Boseman's Final Role George C. Wolfe's upcoming adaptation of August Wilson's stage play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" was always going to be one of Netflix's big Oscar contenders for the 2020-21 awards season, but the passing of Chadwick Boseman has elevated the project ...
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Non-Profits Say India's New Rules on Foreign Funding Will Hit Operations NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's tougher rules on foreign funding for non-profits will severely crimp their activities, the chiefs of some bodies said on Thursday, after human rights group Amnesty International suspended its work in the country, citing government ...
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Madrid to Obey New Virus Rules but Will Fight Them in Court By ARITZ PARRA, Associated Press. MADRID (AP) — Madrid will carry out a national order restricting mobility in large Spanish cities with rapid virus spread but its regional president announced Thursday she will fight the Spanish government's resolution in ...
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Microsoft says 'configuration update' caused global Outlook outage Microsoft is trying to fix a worldwide outage after a software "configuration update" left users unable to use their email accounts as normal. Several hours after users started to notice the outage, Microsoft said it had figured out the cause of the outage.
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Hong Kong Police Arrest 60 for Protesting on China Holiday HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested at least 60 people on suspicion of unauthorized assembly on China's National Day holiday Thursday after crowds gathered on the streets of a popular shopping district chanting pro-democracy slogans.
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Jets' Perriman out vs. Broncos; Crowder, Becton questionable FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets wide receiver Breshad Perriman will be sidelined a second straight game because of a sprained left ankle. The speedy receiver was ruled out, as expected, on Wednesday for the Jets' home game Thursday night ...
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Everything Chelsea fans need to know about the 2020/21 Champions League group stage draw Chelsea will find out their 2020/21 Champions League group stage opponents when the draw is made in Geneva on Thursday afternoon. Frank Lampard's side will be looking to go further than their last-16 exit last season after being knocked out by Bayern ...
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BLM street murals are beautiful, but it's time for something more appropriate The first time I drove over Richmond's Black Lives Matter mural, I felt a sense of pride over how the city chose to honor a movement unlike any my generation has ever known. I felt that same pride the second time I passed over the mural, which shows "BLACK ...
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Did you know? Daily facts, tips to know about breast cancer, early detection and screenings October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here are 31 facts and tips to know about preventing, living with, or spreading awareness of the disease. Women can be proactive in the fight against breast cancer by learning to identify early warning signs of the ...
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Japan 'Twitter killer' pleads guilty to murders A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to murdering nine people after contacting them on Twitter, in a high-profile case that has shocked the country. Dubbed the "Twitter killer", Takahiro Shiraishi was arrested in 2017 after body parts were found in his flat.
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United, American Airlines Could Furlough 32000 Staff As Washington Struggles To Agree On Bailout Billions American Airlines CEO Doug Parker will start furloughing 19,000 workers from Thursday, but told CNN that the move would be stopped if lawmakers agree to bail out airlines with a $25 billion package.
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Trump Senior Adviser Brad Parscale Steps Away From Campaign After Police Incident Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager and longtime digital strategist to President Trump, has stepped away from his role in the president's re-election effort, campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh confirms to NPR. Last weekend, Parscale ...
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US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China Malta (CNN) US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region. Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, ...
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A swarm of small earthquakes hit Southern California's Imperial Valley (CNN) A swarm of small earthquakes hit Southern California's Imperial Valley on Wednesday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Dozens of small earthquakes ranging from 2.5 to 4.9 magnitude happened around 4 p.m. ...
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Some Students Will Learn Virtually, Even When in Classrooms Students are set to return to high school buildings Thursday, but many of them will be learning virtually, even when they're in the classroom. "Thousands of high school students will not be receiving in-person instruction Thursday, they will not. What they will be ...
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Patriots notebook: Expect the unexpected in the latest matchup with Mahomes Bill Belichick and the Patriots know there's no special formula to slowing down the defending champion Chiefs and quarterback Patrick Mahomes. By KYLE HIGHTOWERAssociated Press. Email Writer. Share. facebook · tweet · reddit · email · print.
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The Latest: Pelosi, Mnuchin have 'extensive' talks on COVID relief WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held an "extensive conversation" Wednesday on a huge COVID-19 rescue package, meeting face to face for the first time in more than a month in a last-ditch effort to ...
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California moves toward policing changes, but activists hoped for far more SACRAMENTO — California will ban certain police choke holds and establish independent investigations for some law enforcement shootings under legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wednesday — the remnants of what activists once hoped would be a ...
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37 of the best games on Nintendo Switch There's honestly never been a better time to get stuck into Nintendo Switch games. First off, there's a choice between the original Nintendo Switch and the brand new Nintendo Switch Lite. That's good. Second of all, a huge number of us are homebound.
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California wildfires: Nearly 4 million acres have burned statewide as red flag warning looms for Wine Country CALISTOGA — California turns the calendar Thursday into what's typically its most dangerous month of fire season, with nearly 4 million acres burned so far in an epic year that has already doubled previous annual records. Firefighters made some progress ...
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Supreme Court Vacancy, COVID-19 Crisis Push ACA Back Into The Center Of The Presidential Contest In a year of COVID-19, devastating economic declines and turmoil over racial justice, the Affordable Care Act didn't start off as a major campaign issue in the presidential race. But the death of liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ...
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The Latest: Virus infections jump 4-fold in England LONDON — British scientists are reporting that the rate of coronavirus infection across England has jumped four-fold in the last month and even higher in regions like northwest England and London. That's according to a large government-commissioned ...
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Prince Harry and Meghan Tell Britain: Tackle 'Structural Racism' LONDON (Reuters) - Meghan and Prince Harry called on Britain to grasp an opportunity to change "structural racism" which they said was holding young people of colour back, The Evening Standard reported. Harry said Britain could be a better place if white ...
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Weekly COVID-19 Cases up 61% in England: Test and Trace Scheme LONDON (Reuters) - There was a 61% increase in positive COVID-19 cases in England's latest weekly data, with more than four times the number of cases recorded as there were at the end of August, the health service's test and trace scheme said on ...
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Officials Tout Reopening Efforts As Disney Layoffs Loom TALLAHASSEE — In another major sign of how COVID-19 has damaged Florida's tourism industry, about 6,700 layoffs are expected to hit non-union workers at Walt Disney World starting Dec. 4. "Due to the continuing business impacts of the COVID-19 ...
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Death of Atikamekw woman in Quebec hospital draws comparisons to death of Brian Sinclair 12 years earlier The tragic story of a Atikamekw woman who recorded nurses' racist comments about her as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital is drawing comparisons to the death of Brian Sinclair, an Indigenous man who died in a Winnipeg emergency room 12 years ago.
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No, you won't need a second flu shot if you got the vaccine early CLEVELAND, Ohio – Public health experts have been imploring Americans to get a flu shot for weeks, saying it's especially critical amid the coronavirus pandemic. But some medical experts have questioned whether the vaccine could lose effectiveness over ...
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Still in top 5: Oklahoma's new weekly cases, positivity rate double national average Oklahoma's rate of new weekly COVID-19 cases is double the national average for the second consecutive week, according to the latest White House Coronavirus Task Force weekly report. The state's positivity rate for the most recent week also is double the ...
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World Vegetarian Day: 5 Nutritionist Recommended Superfoods Vegetarians Should Not Miss World Vegetarian Day is observed on 1st October 2020. This day is marked to tell about the benefits of vegetarianism. The idea is to help create a better world as a vegetarian diet has proven benefits. Vegetarian diets can offer you several amazing health ...
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Subway's bread is too sugary to be called 'bread' in Ireland The Irish Supreme Court ruled that all varieties of Subway's sub rolls (yes, even the whole-grain) cannot be considered bread because they are too sugary. Subway Sandwich. If Subway's bread isn't bread, then what is it?Subway. Sept. 30, 2020, 4:35 PM PDT ...
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NASCAR turns right, adds variety to 2021 schedule CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After two decades of the same left turns at the same tracks over and over again, NASCAR finally upended its stagnant calendar with a 2021 schedule that is as radical as the sport has ever seen. Three new venues. A dirt race for the first ...
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