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• Griffin one of the anchors in Seahawks' remodeled secondary

  16-08-2020 23:57
  
  When Shaquill Griffin arrived in Seattle, he was supposed to be part of the new era in an effort by the Seahawks to build the next generation of their standout secondary.It has been expected that Griffin would be part of a standout secondary since his arrival in 2017.
  
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• Trade secretary vows to fight ‘unfair’ tariffs on Scotch whisky ahead of next round of US talks

  16-08-2020 23:45
  
  Trade secretary Liz Truss pledged to fight US tariffs on Scotch whisky, calling them “unacceptable and unfair”.“I will fight to consign these unfair tariffs to the bin of history”, she wrote in an op-ed in the Telegraph, while accusing the European Union of failing to protect British and Scottish interests.
  
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• British trade minister pledges to fight 'unfair' U.S. tariffs - The Telegraph

  16-08-2020 23:45
  
  "I will fight to consign these unfair tariffs to the bin of history", she wrote https://bit.ly/31YQqDr, while accusing the European Union of failing to protect British and Scottish interests.The U.S. government said last week it would maintain 15% tariffs on Airbusaircraft and 25% tariffs on other European goods as part of a long-running trade dispute, although it held off adding some extra tariffs as it had threatened.
  
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• Sanders: Trump's effort to hinder mail-in voting 'a crisis for US democracy' – as it happened

  16-08-2020 23:33
  
  Sanders says Trump has made ‘deliberate effort’ to hinder mail-in votingDemocrats say US postmaster general must testify at ‘urgent hearing’Pelosi accuses Trump of ‘openly working to destroy the post office’USPS changes causing mail delays, mail workers sayHow the pandemic has split the US economy in twoSign up to our First Thing newsletter 10.33pm BST Here’s a rundown of Sunday’s events. We’ll be back tomorrow for all Monday’s news. 10
  
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• Tucker hits game-ending homer as Astros sweep Mariners 3-2

  16-08-2020 23:30
  
  Kyle Tucker hit a game-ending homer in the ninth inning, and the Houston Astros beat the Seattle Mariners 3-2 on Sunday for their fourth straight win.Tucker drove a 96-mph fastball from Erik Swanson (0-2) deep to right for his first career game-ending homer.Houston also got a terrific effort from its bullpen in its fifth win in six games overall.
  
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• Sevilla surge into Europa League final after victory over Manchester United

  16-08-2020 23:25
  
  Sevilla advanced to the final of the Europa League on Sunday night after a 2-1 win over Manchester United at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne.United took the lead after seven minutes from the penalty spot. Diego Carlos brought down Marcus Rashford and Bruno Fernandes dispatched the kick past Yassine Bounou.Sevilla levelled 20 minutes later through Suso. He swept the ball past the United goalkeeper David de Gea after being set up by Sergio Reguilon.United started the second-half with menace. Bo
  
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• White Sox hit 4 straight HRs vs Cardinals reliever in debut

  16-08-2020 23:20
  
  The Chicago White Sox tied a major league record with four consecutive home runs, all against reliever Roel Ramirez in his major league debut, and went on to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-2 on Sunday.Yoán Moncada, Yasmani Grandal, José Abreu and Eloy Jiménez connected during a six-run fifth inning.Ramirez took the mound in the fifth with Chicago leading 1-0.
  
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• Indians beat Tigers for 20th straight time, Reyes hits 2 HRs

  16-08-2020 23:16
  
  The Cleveland Indians beat Detroit for the 20th straight time, nearing the major league record for most wins by a team over a single opponent, as Franmil Reyes hit two home runs to defeat the Tigers 8-5 Sunday.Baltimore holds the mark with 23 consecutive wins over Kansas City in 1969-70.The Indians can match the record when they host Detroit in a three-game series next weekend.
  
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• Manchester United's Europa League exit of their own making as near misses expose need for signings like Sancho

  16-08-2020 23:05
  
  Manchester United are a team that don’t know how to win.That fact was brutally exposed by a wily Sevilla side, who ended Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s hopes of delivering silverware in his first full season in charge.
  
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• Kepler homers, Dobnak keeps rolling; Twins beat Royals 4-2

  16-08-2020 23:05
  
  Max Kepler hit a two-run homer to support another strong start from Randy Dobnak, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 on Sunday.Dobnak, the surprise right-hander who was promoted four levels last season before making a postseason start, continued his impressive run in 2020 with two runs allowed, both on solo homers, in 5 1/3 innings.Dobnak (4-1) gave up just three hits, while his ERA rose from a majors-best 0.90 to 1.42.
  
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• Chevy drivers hoping Honda's edge closes during Indy 500

  16-08-2020 23:05
  
  Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso and Tony Kanaan, the 2013 Indy winner, knew Friday night where they would be starting the Indianapolis 500.Will Power, the 2018 Indy winner, had a pretty good sense, too.After two years of chasing the powerful Chevrolet-powered cars at Indianapolis, Honda finally came up with a package that caught and surged past its rival manufacturer with a disparity so wide only four Chevy drivers qualified in the first 17 spots on the 33-car starting grid.
  
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• Pc Andrew Harper's stepsister says the hole his killing has left in her heart is bigger than the room left

  16-08-2020 23:02
  
  Pc Andrew Harper's teenage stepsister says the hole his killing has left in her heart is bigger than the room left, in her first statement on his death. Amelia Adlam said she was angry her brother's life had been stolen and could not believe what her family had been through in the last 12 months - describing it as "absolutely unimaginably painful". The 15-year-old said she would miss her older brother forever and the "hole you have left in our hearts is greater than the room left". PC Harper was
  
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• Jared Kushner will 'absolutely' send his children to school despite Covid-19 risks

  16-08-2020 23:00
  
  Jared Kushner will 'absolutely' send his children to school despite Covid-19 risks. Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser does not believe coronavirus poses serious risk to younger students
  
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• Morning mail: hunt for Victoria's 'patient zero', Belarus protests, lockdown transformations

  16-08-2020 22:59
  
  Monday: Victorian quarantine inquiry will hold hearings into source of outbreak. Plus: the people who have turned their lives around in lockdownGood morning, this is Lauren Waldhuter bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 17 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Ronnie O’Sullivan eases past Kyren Wilson to land a sixth world title

  16-08-2020 22:58
  
  Ronnie O’Sullivan moved level with Steve Davis and Ray Reardon after surging past Kyren Wilson 18-8 to claim his sixth world snooker title at the Crucible.Only Stephen Hendry’s seven crowns now stand between the 44-year-old and undisputed acclaim as the greatest player in the modern sport after he wrecked Wilson’s hopes of a final debut win.Having cut a forlorn and frustrated figure through most of Saturday’s opening two sessions, O’Sullivan rediscovered his sparkle
  
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• Plans for a Brexit museum to be stepped up this autumn

  16-08-2020 22:55
  
  Plans for a Museum of Brexit will be stepped up in the autumn, with members of the public urged to raid their cupboards for memorabilia. Organisers are hoping to get hold of the 1975 pro-European flag jumper worn by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the campaign trail and the pen used to sign the 1957 Treaty of Rome. As the end of the transition period approaches, three locations in 10 Leave-voting areas have been earmarked as possible sites for the museum, the Mail on Sunday reported.
  
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• Butler enjoying every minute after missing Titans' AFC run

  16-08-2020 22:46
  
  Malcolm Butler is so excited to be back practicing with the Tennessee Titans after a season-ending injury that the veteran cornerback is even enjoying practice.“When I got hurt, I missed those little things,” Butler said.“I missed out on a whole half a season and I had to sit there and watch my team win,” Butler said.
  
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• Israel and UAE launch direct phone links after historic accord

  16-08-2020 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The two countries' foreign ministers hold a telephone call following a deal to normalise relations.
  
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• Rep Titus on DNC changes amid pandemic, USPS mail-in voting controversy

  16-08-2020 22:41
  
  Rep. Dina Titus joins 'America's News Headquarters' to discuss the challenges and changes of the DNC convention.
  
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• Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes plays down Victor Lindelof row after Sevilla goal: 'Everyone was mad'

  16-08-2020 22:41
  
  Bruno Fernandes opened up on his heated argument with Victor Lindelof after defensive mistakes cost Manchester United in their 2-1 Europa League semi-final exit to Sevilla.The playmaker's early penalty had put them ahead but Man United saw their chances of claiming silverware end in Cologne after goals from Suso and Luuk de Jong helped Sevilla seal their place in Friday's final.
  
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• One question hung over 2008 Games: Would they change China?

  16-08-2020 22:40
  
  Richard Pound, now the senior member of the International Olympic Committee, wrote about it in his book "Inside the Olympics."“The decision in 2001 to give the games to China was made in the hope of improvement in human rights and, indeed, the Chinese themselves said that having the games would accelerate progress in such matters," Pound wrote in 2004.Francois Carrard, the IOC’s director general at the time, said there was “one issue on the table ... and that is human rights.&r
  
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• One in four dogs bought during lockdown could be from puppy farms

  16-08-2020 22:36
  
  One in four dogs bought during lockdown could be from puppy farms. Kennel Club finds many new puppy owners missed ‘red flags’ because of lack of research
  
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• Kei Nishikori tests positive for coronavirus ahead of US Open

  16-08-2020 22:34
  
  Kei Nishikori is a doubt for the US Open after confirming he has tested positive for coronavirus.The 30-year-old Japanese announced on Sunday that he was self-isolating in Florida and as a result had pulled out of the Western and Southern Open, which has been moved to New York from its traditional venue in Cincinnati to act as a warm-up event for the Grand Slam tournament.
  
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• Starwatch: Corona Borealis, crown of the north

  16-08-2020 22:30
  
  Starwatch: Corona Borealis, crown of the northOne of the earliest recognised constellations, quite small and relatively faint, Corona Borealis forms an unmistakeable semi-circle of stars
  
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• Don't expect any more historical fiction from me, says Hilary Mantel

  16-08-2020 22:30
  
  Writer tells Edinburgh festival audience she wants to focus on short stories and theatreHilary Mantel has spent the last 15 years consumed by Tudor intrigue and writing award-winning historical fiction, but fans should not expect much more in that vein.“I haven’t got another big historical novel in view,” she told the Edinburgh international books festival on Sunday. “I think that’s quite important to say, so I hope people will stop writing to me with suggestions. I
  
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• Bernie Sanders says Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting a ‘crisis for US democracy’

  16-08-2020 22:29
  
  Bernie Sanders says Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting a ‘crisis for US democracy’Democrats move to examine cuts to the USPS as unprecedented number of Americas are expected to vote by mail because of Covid
  
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• WSJ Opinion: Is Kamala Harris a Mistake or Masterstroke?

  16-08-2020 22:26
  Journal Editorial Report: Bill McGurn and Jillian Melchior on why Beijing is targeting the pro-democracy publisher who refuses to flee the city. Image: May James/Zuma Wire ......
  
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• WSJ Opinion: Hong Kong Arrests Jimmy Lai

  16-08-2020 22:26
  Journal Editorial Report: Bill McGurn and Jillian Melchior on why Beijing is targeting the pro-democracy publisher who refuses to flee the city. Image: May James/Zuma Wire ......
  
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• White House's Meadows says he accepts Harris eligible for VP

  16-08-2020 22:26
  WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday he accepts that Sen. Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as vice president, rejecting a false and racist conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump had promoted. “Sure,” said Meadows, when asked on CNN's “State of the Union” whether he acknowledges the fact that she meets the constitutional requirements to be president or vice president. “And I think the president spoke to this yesterday. This
  
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• 'We will perish': Embattled Lukashenko sends SOS to Putin

  16-08-2020 22:26
  Dictator seeks Kremlin support against external threats as analysts predict an end to his rule Isolated from the west and besieged by mass protests, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has made repeated calls for Vladimir Putin to intervene and save his 26-year-old regime. In telephone calls to...
  
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• WATCH | Covid-19 protective equipment adding to pollution crisis

  16-08-2020 22:26
  Italian study says despite 10 percent less rubbish being produced since lockdown started, disposable protective gear is adding to waste. ......
  
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• UAE, Israel launch phone link after diplomatic breakthrough

  16-08-2020 22:26
  
  TEL AVIV/CAIRO – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel on Sunday launched a telephone service between the two countries, days after they stunned the region by agreeing to establish ......
  
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• Tunisia reports 84 new COVID-19 cases, 2,107 in total

  16-08-2020 22:26
  TUNIS, Aug.16 (Xinhua) -- The Tunisian Ministry of Health reported Sunday 84 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. In its daily report, the ministry said that the total number of...
  
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• Telephone calls between United Arab Emirates, Israel ring for first time

  16-08-2020 22:26
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates >> Telephone...
  
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• Telephone calls between UAE, Israel ring for the first time

  16-08-2020 22:26
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Telephone calls began ringing Sunday between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, marking the first concrete step of a U.S.-brokered diplomatic deal between the nations that required Israel to halt plans to annex land sought by the Palestinians. Anger over the deal however continued as well, with protesters in Pakistan criticizing the UAE and Iran making new threats about the accord, which will see the Emirates become only the third Arab nation to currently re
  
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• South Korea sees largest increase in coronavirus cases in months

  16-08-2020 22:26
  South Korean health officials said Sunday that the country had reported a new daily coronavirus caseload of almost 300 cases, the country's highest number since March. Korea's Centers for Disease Control and...
  
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• South Korea accuses conservative pastor of violating coronavirus rules

  16-08-2020 22:26
  South Korean officials on Sunday accused a Christian pastor of interfering with contact tracing and flouting isolation rules at this church, which has been linked to 240 coronavirus infections. The country’s ministry of health said Sunday it has filed a complaint against Rev....
  
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• Sharon-Stone-Reveals-Her-Lupus-Suffering-Sister-Has-COVID-19-And-Blames-Non-Mask-Wearers-For-Her-Infection

  16-08-2020 22:26
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• Russia offers military help to Belarus

  16-08-2020 22:26
  Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinPressure builds on US to respond to brutal crackdown in Belarus UN Security Council rejects US bid to extend Iran arms embargo Overnight Defense: US seizes Iranian fuel bound...
  
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• Ronnie O'Sullivan wins sixth World Snooker Championship with win over Wilson

  16-08-2020 22:26
  Ronnie O'Sullivan stormed to victory against Kyren Wilson to become World Snooker Champion for the sixth time and cement his status amongst the all-time greats ......
  
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• Police: At least 18 shot, with 4 dead, across Cincinnati

  16-08-2020 22:26
  CINCINNATI (AP) — At least 18 people were shot, including four killed, as gunfire erupted in several places around the city overnight, authorities said Sunday. Officers responded just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday to the Avondale neighborhood and found 21-year-old Antonio Blair with gunshot wounds, police said in a statement. He was taken to University Hospital and died there, they said. Three other gunshot victims were also taken to the hospital. At about 2:15 a.m., officers responded to a repo
  
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• Oman reports 162 new COVID-19 cases, 83,086 in total

  16-08-2020 22:26
  
  MUSCAT, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Omani Ministry of Health on Sunday reported...
  
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• Netanyahu says UAE deal signals end to 'land for peace'

  16-08-2020 22:26
  
  Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a deal to establish full diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates proves that Israel doesn’t need to retreat from occupied land sought by the Palestinians in order to achieve peace and normalization with Arab states. Israel and the UAE announced Thursday they were establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land s
  
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• Marvel’s first Muslim female superhero revealed

  16-08-2020 22:26
  Exclusive: While heading back to the movies for blockbuster premieres may still be a way off in the future, superhero fans worldwide are being thrown a perfectly timed-lifeline thanks to Marvel’s Avengers video game. ......
  
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• Lebanon registers 439 new COVID-19 cases, death toll exceeds 100

  16-08-2020 22:26
  
  BEIRUT, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon's number of COVID-19 infections increased on Sunday by 439 cases to 8,881 while death toll went up by...
  
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• Leader of Belarus rejects calls to rerun presidential vote

  16-08-2020 22:26
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The embattled president of Belarus tried to put on a show of strength Sunday, holding a rally with tens of thousands of supporters and rejecting any possibility of repeating the vote that gave him a sixth term. But opponents countered with a far larger demonstration that attracted as many as 200,000 people. Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the former Soviet republic of 9.5 million since 1994, lashed out at the West and declared to his crowd that the country would &
  
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• Joe Biden leading President Trump nationally ahead of DNC, RNC, poll finds

  16-08-2020 22:26
  WASHINGTON — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden continues to lead President Donald Trump in national polling, besting the president by 9 points in a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. The survey released Sunday found that 50% of those polled would vote for Biden if the election were held today versus the 41% of those who would vote for Trump. The findings come a day before the Democratic National Convention and a week before the Republican National Convention, where bo
  
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• Italy closes nightclubs as Covid-19 cases rise among young

  16-08-2020 22:26
  
  Italy is to shut discos and clubs and make it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors in some areas during the night-time in the first reimposition of restrictions as cases of coronavirus pick up across the country, especially among younger people. New cases in the past week in Italy, the first European country to be hit hard by the coronavirus, were more than double those registered three weeks ago and the median age of people contracting the virus has dropped below 40, data showed. The new rules...
  
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• Hunger Games salute a sign of defiance as thousands rally in Bangkok in historic demand ...

  16-08-2020 22:26
  
  They came in their thousands. Young and old. Thai protestors demanding greater democracy. ......
  
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• How will the stock market react if Democrats win the White House and Senate? Here's ...

  16-08-2020 22:26
  Stock market investors in general don't seem all that concerned about the possibility of Joe Biden winning the White House in November. Stock prices have marched relentlessly higher in recent months, even as the former vice president maintains a lead over President Donald Trump in the polls. But investors might want to think hard about the ramifications of a single-party sweep as the election approaches. They also might want to delve deeper into Biden's proposed tax agenda and possible impact on
  
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