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2020 Election Live Updates: The Future of the Trump-Biden Debates President Trump renewed worries about voter intimidation, as Republicans prepare for a poll-watching effort that has alarmed voting rights groups. Facebook is banning ads that undermine the election. RIGHT NOW. These people's job is making sure Nov.
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Puck already dropped on NHL offseason that could be a frenzy Even before the Tampa Bay Lightning returned home to celebrate their Stanley Cup championship, Julien BriseBois was on the phone with other NHL general managers about what to do next. He is certainly not alone in making calls. "Although we ended the ...
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On China's National Day, Hong Kong Police Quash Protests HONG KONG — One year ago, China's National Day on Oct. 1 was a day of protest and turmoil in Hong Kong. Demonstrators set fires and blockaded streets. The police responded with tear gas and pepper spray. One officer shot a young demonstrator with a ...
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House Democrats hold off on stimulus vote to allow more time for bipartisan negotiation (CNN) House Democrats will hold off on a planned vote Wednesday night on their $2.2 trillion stimulus proposal to allow more time for bipartisan negotiations in a last-ditch effort to reach a deal just weeks before Election Day. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...
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Can Yu Darvish come to the rescue? 4 things to look for in Game 2 of the Cubs-Marlins wild-card series. The Chicago Cubs were leading the Miami Marlins late in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Wednesday before disaster struck at Wrigley Field. The Marlins put up five runs in the seventh inning and held on for a 5-1 victory. Advertisement. The Cubs ...
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Forever No. 1: Helen Reddy's 'Angie Baby' Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer -- a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single -- by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made ...
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'You know that your dream's ending': Flight attendants bid tearful goodbyes amid furloughs Rheanna Lawson, 29, knew she was going to be out of work once her employer American Airlines warned of furloughs in mid-July. She hadn't been with the company very long, only two-and-a-half years. "I was actually on a trip with four of my other flight ...
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Three NC colleges topped 1000 COVID-19 cases this fall. What they plan for spring. UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and East Carolina University each saw coronavirus cases spike on campus this semester and abruptly moved classes online and forced students out of dorms. But despite reporting more than 1,000 COVID-19 cases ...
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The Unfulfilled Potential of Police Body Cameras in the Era of Black Lives Matter Public demand for racial justice and police accountability will remain a defining feature of 2020 long after the coronavirus pandemic has subsided. In the aftermath of police violence resulting in the deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Daniel Prude, and ...
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Venus isn't habitable -- and it could be all Jupiter's fault London (CNN) Venus was once a planet not too dissimilar to Earth, and if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the sun, it might have been able to support life, according to researchers. As a result of Jupiter -- the largest planet in our solar system -- moving ...
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Russia and France seek end to fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - Russia and France stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces on Thursday as the death toll rose in the heaviest clashes around the Nagorno-Karabakh region since the 1990s. FILE PHOTO: ...
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Borat 2 Will Arrive Just Before Election Day, Very Nice! Borat is back, and he's ready to destroy the coronavirus with the combined powers of a frying pan and brute strength. In a brand-new teaser for the upcoming Borat sequel, a surprise follow-up to Sacha Baron Cohen's gonzo 2006 mockumentary about an ...
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Surface Laptop Go is a cheaper, smaller Microsoft laptop with a premium style A truly great budget laptop is a PC holy grail, but also about as hard to find. Laptops around the $500 mark tend to compromise on design, materials, performance or features, doing well in one area, but poorly in others. In 2020, it's been even more difficult, ...
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Irish High Court Rules Subway's Sandwich Bread Is Not Legally Bread The Irish Supreme Court has ruled that the bread used to make Subway sandwiches cannot be defined as bread. The ruling was the result of a tax case. Bookfinders Ltd, a Subway franchisee, claimed that it should be exempt from value-added tax (VAT) since ...
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Jobless claims edge lower to 837000 as slow recovery continues First-time claims for unemployment insurance totaled 837,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday as the jobs market continues its plodding recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting ...
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Northern California Wildfires: Where To Find Updates On Air Quality, Evacuations, And Official Information An air tanker drops retardant while battling the Glass Fire in St. Helena, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. AP Photo/Noah Berger. To get updates on your phone, including push notifications of major announcements, download our mobile app for iOS or ...
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EU Begins Legal Action Over UK Brexit Plan The European Commission announced on Thursday that it was pressing ahead with legal action against Britain over Brexit legislation that the government in London has said would permit it to break international law. The commission, the European Union's ...
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New York diocese becomes largest in US to file for bankruptcy over sex abuse lawsuits ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – A Roman Catholic diocese in New York City's suburbs has become the largest in the U.S. to declare bankruptcy to protect itself from a wave of lawsuits filed over past sexual abuse by clergy members. The Diocese of Rockville ...
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The Latest: CDC extends no-sail order for cruise ships only through October The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Wednesday that a "no-sail order" for cruise ships will be extended just through the end of October — amid reports that an effort to keep the order in place through February was overruled.
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SpaceX aborts Starlink launch due to ground-sensor reading SpaceX aborted the launch of a batch of Starlink internet satellites 18 seconds before blastoff due to an anomalous ground-sensor reading this morning (Oct. 1) at the launchpad in Florida. The company has not yet announced when the next launch ...
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The role of T-cells in SARS-CoV-2 virus defense Our immune system can efficiently fend off viral diseases. T-cells can directly destroy virus-infected cells and enable the formation of efficient, virus-neutralizing antibodies by B-cells. These two cell types also play a crucial role in the immune defense against ...
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Malaysia expects US import ban on second plantation firm, after FGV barred KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is anticipating the United States to ban the imports of another plantation firm, after the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency blocked entry of palm oil products from FGV Holdings FGVH.KL over forced labour ...
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Homeland Security officials were instructed to speak in support of Kyle Rittenhouse, NBC reports Department of Homeland Security officials were instructed to make supportive comments about Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen charged with fatally shooting two people during unrest in Kenosha, NBC News is reporting. NBC cites internal DHS "talking points" it ...
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H&M is closing 250 stores New York (CNN Business) H&M is closing 250 stores next year because of the coronavirus pandemic, as people increasingly shop online. The fast-fashion retailer has 5,000 stores worldwide, so Thursday's announcement accounts for 5% of its total store ...
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NFL Week 4 Bettors Guide (Thursday Edition): Play the under in Broncos-Jets clash 8:20 p.m., Broncos by 3, 41. HANK'S HONEYS: It's hard to pull the trigger for the hot green mess that has yet to take a lead in any game so far. But with 11 players on IR and a practice squad QB making his first career start (if only Brett Rypien was his uncle ...
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NYC Reopened For Indoor Dining Last Night, But Customers Didn't Rush Back In New York City restaurants welcomed diners back for the first time in the more than six months yesterday, but as was expected, most diners did not prefer to eat inside. New York Times reporter Matthew Haag visited Jackson Heights and found a mixed bag of ...
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'Kingdom of Silence': What the life and death of Jamal Khashoggi reveals about US-Saudi co-dependence Jamal Khashoggi will forever be remembered as the journalist/activist who was murdered in grisly fashion by henchmen for the Saudi government, but the invaluable documentary "Kingdom of Silence" reminds us Khashoggi's life was so much more than the ...
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FAA chief Dickson likes what he found piloting a 737 MAX test flight Dickson, a former Delta Air Lines captain, was in Seattle on Monday and Tuesday to complete the training, including time in a flight simulator, now proposed for pilots before they can fly the MAX. On Wednesday, he took off from Boeing Field just before 9 a.m. ...
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Colorado governor to mass-pardon 2700-plus marijuana convictions Colorado Gov. Jared Polis plans to mass-pardon 2,732 convictions of low-level marijuana possession through an executive order Thursday after signing a bill earlier this year that gave him that authority. "This really catches Coloradans up with where the law ...
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Steve and Alex from Minecraft is the latest character coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate There will be a broadcast on Saturday, October 3rd at 10:30AM ET / 7:30AM PT that dives deeper on their play styles. That's when the release date for the characters will be announced, too.
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Consumer spending gains slow to 1% in August WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer spending slowed in August and personal income fell as a $600 weekly benefit for Americans who are unemployed during the pandemic expired. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that spending grew by just ...
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Obituary honors Charlie, the golden retriever that loved everything except stairs. He really hated stairs Charlie the golden retriever was "the best boy" and a huge part of Sallie Gregory Hammett's family since he was an 8-week-old puppy. Hammett was devastated when Charlie died earlier this month after a five-month battle with lymphoma cancer. He was 7.
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Sir Keir Starmer condemns 'inhuman' asylum ferries idea Proposals to process asylum seekers in disused ferries are "inhuman", Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. He accused the government of "lurching from one ridiculous proposition to the next". According to Refugee Action, 35,566 asylum applications ...
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Protests Erupt in India Following Women's Death in Rape Case A series of rapes committed on women from India's lowest castes are making national headlines across the South Asian nation of 1.3 billion, fueling street protests and social media outrage that's put Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration under the ...
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Madrid to obey new virus rules while fighting them in court MADRID (AP) — Madrid and its suburbs prepared Thursday to enter a soft lockdown that restricts trips and out of the Spanish capital following a weeks-long political turf fight that experts say has prevented an effective response to the coronavirus in Europe's ...
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Online learning challenges: Inaccessibility to tech and academic dishonesty A new survey from Manifest shows that learning tools and apps could help alleviate remote learning concerns for US high school and college students. frustrateddev.jpg. diego_cervo, Getty Images/iStockphoto. Without a national, or even regional mandate ...
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Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him The Agriculture Department last week began mandating that millions of boxes of surplus food for needy families include a letter from President Donald Trump claiming credit for the program. The USDA's $4 billion Farmers to Families Food Box Program has ...
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US official: 2020 census to end Oct. 5 despite court order ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said the 2020 census will end Oct. 5, despite a federal judge's ruling last week allowing the head count of every U.S. resident to continue through the end of October, according to a tweet ...
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Man doesn't drive drunk, but allows 13-year-old to get behind wheel to get ice cream, police said LUBBOCK, Texas — A driver failed to yield to a police vehicle, and the driver was pulled over. It sounds like any other traffic stop. But police in Lubbock, Texas, found out it was anything but normal when they discovered a 13-year-old girl behind the wheel of ...
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Liverpool lockdown: Live updates as Government announces further restrictions for Merseyside and Warrington The Government has announced further, stricter coronavirus lockdown measures for Merseyside this morning as cases in the area continue to rise. Health Secretary Matt Hancock made a statement in the House of Commons at 10.30am following mounting ...
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Japan: man admits nine murders after contacting suicidal people via Twitter Takahiro Shiraishi told the court he had contacted women via Twitter and other social media platforms who had expressed suicidal thoughts. He then took them to his apartment in Zama, about 25 miles (40km) south-west of Tokyo, where he sexually assaulted ...
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Tesla Shares Gain On Model 3 Price Cuts in China; Q3 Deliveries in Focus Tesla Inc. (TSLA) - Get Report shares powered higher Thursday following reports that the clean energy carmaker had cut prices for its Model 3 sedan in China and could be ready to publish record third quarter deliveries later this week. Tesla's China website ...
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Cambridge University to cut fossil fuel investments by 2030 Cambridge University is to cease investments in fossil fuels by 2030, it has announced. At the same time, its £3.5 billion endowment fund will "ramp up" investments in renewable energy. Vice-chanceller Prof Stephen J Toope said there was an "environmental ...
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Colombian woman, who was missing for 2 years, found alive at sea Rolando Visbal, one of the fishermen, called out to her in English and Spanish. But she'd been in the cold water too long to respond. Once she received medical treatment at a hospital ...
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A few memories of Kuwaiti Sheikh Sabah One of the memories that I recall most clearly from my time as US ambassador in Kuwait was wondering why Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was having such a scratchy dialogue with the emir. We had urged the defense secretary to come to Kuwait, ...
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Man who assaulted pregnant stranger jailed A man who viciously attacked a heavily pregnant Muslim woman in a Sydney cafe has been jailed for at least two years. But Rana Elasmar and her husband fear Stipe "Steven" Lozina, who was removed from his sentence hearing after disrupting court in a ...
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Rockets Land in Erbil Hours After Iraqi PM Pledges to Protect Diplomats SULAIMANIYA/MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iran-backed militias launched rockets targeting U.S. troops that landed near Erbil airport in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a Kurdish security agency said on Wednesday, hours after Iraq's premier ...
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