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• Adversity comes early this year for Eagles, now 0-2

  20-09-2020 23:57
  
  The only thing the Philadelphia Eagles did well was protect Carson Wentz.Aaron Donald and the rest of the Los Angeles Rams didn’t sack Wentz once after the quarterback went down eight times at Washington last week.Wentz threw two interceptions, Miles Sanders lost a fumble and Philadelphia’s defense let Jared Goff and the Rams have their way on offense.
  
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• ‘It isn’t very British’: MPs divided over government call to snoop on coronavirus rule-breaching neighbours

  20-09-2020 23:48
  
  ‘Priti Patel and her curtain-twitching colleagues are on a different planet,’ one MP says
  
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• Slow-starting Lightning seek early spark vs Stars in Game 2

  20-09-2020 23:36
  Blake Coleman and the Tampa Bay Lightning are going to have to focus on having faster starts to games if they’re going to count on enjoying better finishes against the Dallas Stars in the Stanley Cup Final.A Lightning team that led the NHL in scoring for a third straight season is suddenly having difficulty generating an early spark.“You don’t want to put yourself behind the 8-ball that frequently,” Coleman said Sunday, a day after the Lightning sleep-walked through two p
  
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• Labour accuses Rishi Sunak of ‘cavalier’ attitude as it seeks to paint itself as the party of financial responsibility

  20-09-2020 23:33
  
  Attempt to draw a line under Corbyn-era attacks.
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Joe Biden accuses Trump and Republicans of 'abuse of power' – as it happened

  20-09-2020 23:28
  
  Trump promises to nominate woman within a week‘I will fight!’: mourners’ vow at supreme court vigilRobert Reich: For McConnell, power trumps principleObituary: ‘Formidably clever with a superhuman capacity for work’Sign up for our First Thing newsletter 10.28pm BST Here’s a rundown of Sunday’s events. We’ll be back tomorrow for all Monday’s news. 10.19pm BST The overall total of coronavirus deaths in California surpassed 15,000 on Sunday even
  
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• WSJ Opinion: The Supreme Court After Ginsburg

  20-09-2020 23:27
  Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly ......
  
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• WSJ Opinion: Suddenly, the Supreme Court Dominates the Election

  20-09-2020 23:27
  Journal Editorial Report: Who benefits from a fight over Ginsburg's successor? Images: AFP via Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly ......
  
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• WSJ Opinion: Hits and Misses of the Week

  20-09-2020 23:27
  Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Jason Riley, Mary O'Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly ......
  
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• Watt scores 2 goals, Red Stars defeat Sky Blue 4-1 in NWSL

  20-09-2020 23:27
  BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) — Kealia Watt scored two goals and added an assist and the Chicago Red Stars downed Sky Blue 4-1 in a fall series match Sunday in the National Women's Soccer League. Sky Blue took...
  
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• Washington Football Team owner Daniel Snyder misses game after family friend tests positive for COVID-19

  20-09-2020 23:27
  Washington Football Team owner Daniel Snyder is not watching his team play in person today for the first time in 21 years as...
  
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• Two missing after flash floods in southern France

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - Two people were missing in southern France on Sunday after flash floods caused by storms that dumped a year's worth of rainfall in parts of the Cevennes hills north of Montpellier. ......
  
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• Trump's Supreme Court Move "Exercise In Raw Political Power": Joe Biden

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  US presidential hopeful Joe Biden urged Senate lawmakers on Sunday to not vote on filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death until after the election in November. ......
  
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• Tropical Storm Beta to drop a foot of rain in Texas and Louisiana

  20-09-2020 23:27
  (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Beta was predicted to bring a foot of rain to parts of coastal Texas and Louisiana next week as the 23rd named storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season moves ashore on Monday night, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters warned on Sunday that coastal communities could be inundated...
  
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• Tom Cotton: Democrats 'rioting in the streets' as supreme court battle heats up

  20-09-2020 23:27
  Senator makes evidence-free claim as Trump mulls choice Republicans deny hypocrisy after denying Merrick Garland US politics – live coverage Robert Reich: McConnell shows power trumps principle Two Republican senators tapped by Donald Trump as possible supreme court nominees offered varying...
  
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• Thomas's career-high 31 leads Sun past Aces 87-62 in Game 1

  20-09-2020 23:27
  BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Jasmine Thomas had a career-high 31 points, Alyssa Thomas scored 18, and the Connecticut Sun pulled away early and cruised to an 87-62 win over the Las Vegas Aces in Game of 1 of the best-of-five WNBA semifinals Sunday. Alyssa Thomas had six rebounds, five...
  
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• The Latest: Lebanon suffers another record in COVID-19 cases

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  BEIRUT — Lebanon registered a record 1,006 cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the government announced Sunday, amid a sharp increase in infections and deaths due to the new coronavirus. Health Minister Hamad Hassan recommended a total lockdown for two weeks to stem the alarming rise in daily detected infections, but authorities will find it difficult difficult to impose another lockdown amid an unprecedented economic collapse. The new cases registered by the Health Ministry bring th
  
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• The Latest: DeChambeau moves into the lead at US Open

  20-09-2020 23:27
  MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest from the final round of the U.S. Open, golf’s second major of the year (all times EDT): ——— Bryson DeChambeau and Matthew Wolff matched eagles on the ninth hole in the U.S. Open to separate themselves from the rest of the field as they made the turn. DeChambeau rolled in a 40-footer on the 556-yard par 5 to drop to 5 under for the tournament. But Wolff kept pace minutes later with a 10-foot eagle putt. The overnight leader is 1 ove
  
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• Supreme Court is shorthanded but could play role in election

  20-09-2020 23:27
  WASHINGTON – A presidential election riddled with rampant court challenges and ripe for more faces a Supreme Court with an empty chair. The death Friday of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg adds a layer of intrigue to a pandemic-infused campaign that's been challenged from Alabama to Wisconsin, prompting the justices to resolve political disputes they would rather sidestep. More than 300 lawsuits have been filed, in nearly every state, thanks largely to problems associated with COVID-1
  
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• Sudan to discuss removal from US terrorism list in UAE

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese officials will discuss the removal of their country from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terror with U.S. officials during a visit to the United Arab Emirates this week, the ruling council said on Sunday. ......
  
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• Some Californians see clear skies for first time in weeks, but major wildfires continue to rage

  20-09-2020 23:27
  PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – Many Californians were getting a brief respite from smoky skies Sunday and a handful of national parks reopened over the weekend, even as major wildfires continued to rage across the Golden State. Westerly winds were pushing smoke toward the east and allowing people to get a view of clear skies that haven't been present for weeks in some areas as millions of acres have burned. Smoke is moving through the Great Plains, according to the National Weather Service. "What
  
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• Reports claim Bahrain stopped militants planning attacks

  20-09-2020 23:27
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain broke up a plot by militants backed by Iran to launch attacks on diplomats and foreigners in the island nation home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, Saudi state television and local media reported Sunday, just days after the kingdom normalized relations with Israel. Details about the claimed plot remained scarce Sunday night as Bahrain's Interior Ministry and its state media did not publicly acknowledge the arrests. Bahraini government officials, who
  
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• Opera, travel, food, law: The unlikely friendship of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON – Long before they became federal appeals court judges, Supreme Court justices, travel companions and New Year's Eve celebrants together, Ruth Bader Ginsburg watched Antonin Scalia speak to the American Bar Association. As she would for decades to come, Ginsburg disagreed with Scalia's thesis. But, she recalled in 2014, "he said it in an absolutely captivating way." Thus did the two ideological opposites attract for what became from that day on a close friendship – one the
  
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• N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James moves to expedite release of police body cam footage

  20-09-2020 23:27
  36 minutes ago ROCHESTER, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Letitia James promised Sunday to expedite the release of body camera footage in cases of alleged police misconduct that her office investigates. Speaking in Rochester, which has been in turmoil since the footage of Daniel Prude’s fatal encounter with police was released more than five months after his death, James said her office “will be proactively releasing footage to the public on our own.” “This is foot
  
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• My country may be swept away by the climate crisis if the rest of the ...

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  Now is a time for courage. It will take sacrifices from everyone for us all to survive, the president of the Marshall Islands writes My country joined the United Nations nearly 30 years ago, in September, 1991. But unless my fellow member states take action, we may also be forced from it: the first...
  
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• Mum slammed over ‘ridiculous’ Xmas gift haul for ‘spoilt’ daughter, 2, & says there are ...

  20-09-2020 23:27
  A MUM has faced criticism after sharing a picture showing a huge collection of Christmas gifts she has bought for her daughter. The vast variety of presents includes Barbie dolls, Toy Story figures and stuffed animals. 2 Showing off the presents...
  
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• Means strikes out 12; Orioles halt Rays' surge with 2-1 win

  20-09-2020 23:27
  BALTIMORE (AP) — John Means struck out a career-high 12 in a pitching duel with Tampa Bay lefty Ryan Yarbrough, and the Baltimore Orioles stalled the Rays' push toward the AL East title with a 2-1 victory Sunday. Means (2-3) allowed three hits and a run in 5 2/3 innings. The left-hander tied a team record with seven consecutive strikeouts, matching the mark set by Sammy Stewart in 1978. Renato Núñez hit a two-run single in the first inning for the Orioles, who made the best..
  
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• Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins oppose vote on Ruth Bader Ginsburg replacement before election

  20-09-2020 23:27
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski definitively said Sunday she does not support voting on a nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court before the Nov. 3 election, repeating a belief she had expressed previously when the question was theoretical. "For weeks, I have stated that I would not support taking up a potential Supreme Court vacancy this close to the election. Sadly, what was then a hypothetical is now our reality, but my position has not changed," the Alaska Republican said in a statem
  
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• Lee Kerslake, drummer for Ozzy Osbourne and British rock band Uriah Heep, dies at 73

  20-09-2020 23:27
  Drummer Lee Kerslake, who performed with Ozzy Osbourne and British rock band Uriah Heep, has died, the band confirmed Saturday. He was 73. "Where are the words to describe the feelings one has when you (lose) a friend, colleague, fellow band mate (for 20 some odd years!)...
  
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• Judge agrees to delay US government restrictions on WeChat

  20-09-2020 23:27
  NEW YORK (AP) " A judge has approved a request from a group of U.S....
  
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• Joe Biden blasts Trump’s plan to push Supreme Court nominee ahead of election

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  Joe Biden said that if he wins the November 3 election, he should have the chance to nominate the next Supreme Court justice. ......
  
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• Jacob Blake’s family urges Charlotte supporters to end ‘this vicious cycle of hate’

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  A month after the police shooting that left a Black man paralyzed in Wisconsin, members of his family gathered in uptown Charlotte on Sunday to urge an end to what ......
  
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• IPL: Delhi Capitals beat Kings XI Punjab in Super Over

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Marcus Stoinis’ brilliant all-round performance carried Delhi Capitals to a Super Over win against Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League on Sunday. As a batsman, Stoinis smashed 53 runs off 21 balls and lifted Delhi’s total to 157-8 with Chris Jordan conceding 30 runs off the 20th over. As a bowler, Stoinis forced the game into the Super Over by dismissing opener Mayank Agarwal and Jordan off the last two balls as Punjab also finished o
  
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• 'He had green eyes': Florida man will paint alligator which attacked him

  20-09-2020 23:27
  In several decades as a professional artist, painting Florida’s marine life, Mark Johnson has developed a pretty good eye for detail. Now the outdoorsman whose website offers “realistic portrayals created primarily from memory and imagination” is about to start work on a gritty new work: an alligator with rows of perfect white teeth, clamped on...
  
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• Giants RB Saquon Barkley exits game vs. Bears with knee injury

  20-09-2020 23:27
  The New York Giants were dealt a potentially scary blow on Sunday. Running back Saquon Barkley exited the game against the Chicago Bears after the...
  
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• Germans protest against coronavirus restrictions in Duesseldorf

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  DUESSELDORF, Germany – Hundreds of people...
  
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• 'Follow your conscience': Biden implores Senate Republicans to wait on election to fill Ginsburg seat

  20-09-2020 23:27
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday implored Senate Republicans to let the winner of the Nov. 3 election decide who will fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Ruth Bader's Ginsburg's death, telling them that to do otherwise risked "irreversible damage" to American democracy. Speaking at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Biden praised Ginsburg for achieving a level of standing in American culture that had been held by few Supreme Court justices. "She did as much to adv
  
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• Efforts afoot to save South's disappearing grasslands

  20-09-2020 23:27
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In the early 2000s, a harvest of pine trees on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau led to a remarkable discovery. Once sunlight hit the ground, the seeds and rootstock of native grasses and wildflowers that had lain dormant for decades began to spring to life. The area was originally part of vast patchwork of Southern grasslands that today hang on only in tiny remnants, many times in rights-of-way next to roads or under power lines. They have often been an afterthought i
  
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• Douglas statue comes down, but Lincoln had racist views, too

  20-09-2020 23:27
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) " With the nation racing to come to grips with...
  
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• Donkey sculpture on front lawn burned in Maine town

  20-09-2020 23:27
  BOWDOINHAM, Maine (AP) — A donkey sculpture on a front lawn in a Maine town was set on fire...
  
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• Devastating before and after of grandad's home shattered by Beirut explosion

  20-09-2020 23:27
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Abdo Pharaon's neighbours are trying to raise funds to help him rebuild his home, built by his great-grandfather in the early 1800s and passed down through the family for generations ......
  
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• "Crazy" 2020 hurricane season matches 2005 in activity, but not storm intensity

  20-09-2020 23:27
  In early 2005, officials across Florida gathered for the state’s annual hurricane conference, still weary and worn out from a disastrous 2004 hurricane season. The state’s then-health department director, John Agwunobi, urged the group in a keynote session not to be complacent. In a prescient statement, he warned: Just because four hurricanes struck Florida in 2004 didn’t mean five couldn’t strike in 2005. Phil Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University who m
  
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• California Coronavirus Death Toll Passes 15,000 Mark

  20-09-2020 23:27
  California’s death count from the coronavirus surpassed 15,000 on Sunday even as the state saw widespread improvement in infection levels. A tally by Johns Hopkins University put California’s death toll at 15,026, the fourth highest in the country. New York has suffered by far the most deaths -- 33,081 -- followed New Jersey, which has about...
  
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• A North Carolina couple married for over 50 years died minutes apart of Covid-19 while ...

  20-09-2020 23:27
  A couple married for over 50 years died of coronavirus only minutes apart holding hands. Johnny Lee Peoples, 67, and his wife Cathy "Darlene" Peoples, 65 started feeling symptoms at the beginning of August, but would not make it to see more than two days of September. "Mom and Dad lived hand to hand...
  
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• 2nd GOP senator a 'no' to filling court seat before election

  20-09-2020 23:27
  WASHINGTON (AP) " A second Republican senator came out in opposition to...
  
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• 102-year-old New Hampshire woman survives both COVID-19 and the 1918 Spanish flu

  20-09-2020 23:27
  WORCESTER, Mass. – Most people would consider themselves fortunate to survive after contracting the deadly virus from one pandemic. Mildred Geraldine “Gerri” Schappals has survived two of them, more than a century apart. The 102-year-old Schappals was infected with the Spanish flu in 1918 in Worcester and she tested positive last May for COVID-19 at her assisted living facility in Nashua, New Hampshire, but she overcame both illnesses and is feeling fine. She has an interesting
  
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• Prince Charles warns climate crisis will 'dwarf the impact' of coronavirus pandemic

  20-09-2020 23:25
  
  The stark message is part of a keynote speech that Prince Charles has recorded for the opening event of a virtual climate summit starting on Monday.In his speech, he will say: "Without swift and immediate action, at an unprecedented pace and scale, we will miss the window of opportunity to 'reset' for... a more sustainable and inclusive future."In other words, the global pandemic is a wake-up call we cannot ignore...[the environmental] crisis has been with us for far too many years - decried, de
  
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• Reds cash in on White Sox control woes for 7-3 victory

  20-09-2020 23:24
  
  Mike Moustakas hit a two-run single as Cincinnati scored five times in the fourth inning on just one hit, and the Reds took advantage of wild Chicago White Sox pitching for a 7-3 win Sunday.Aristides Aquino hit a two-run homer as the surging Reds stayed in contention for a playoff spot, beating the AL Central leaders for their seventh win in eight games.Cincinnati broke away by turning six walks, a hit batter and Moustakas' single into a big inning.
  
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• Cowboys stun Falcons with onside kick, late field goal

  20-09-2020 23:23
  
  Greg Zuerlein kicked a 46-yard field goal as time expired after Dallas recovered and onside kick, and the Cowboys overcame four fumbles and a 20-point deficit in the first quarter to beat the Atlanta Falcons 40-39 in coach Mike McCarthy’s home debut Sunday.The Falcons were still up 12 in the fourth quarter when Dak Prescott became the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for more than 400 yards and rush for three touchdowns in the same game, getting the Cowboys (1-1) within two.C.J. Go
  
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• Constitutional law expert on Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees

  20-09-2020 23:18
  
  Constitutional law expert Tom Dupree on President Trump’s potential picks to fill Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s vacant seat following her death.
  
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• Red Sox finally beat Yankees to snap 12-game skid vs rivals

  20-09-2020 23:11
  
  Tanner Houck took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of his second major league start and Michael Chavis had a huge day at the plate as the Boston Red Sox halted two long streaks with a 10-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday.Boston ended New York's 10-game winning streak and snapped a 12-game skid against its longtime rival.Chavis hit two homers over the Green Monster and drove in five runs.
  
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