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• Which candidate is running the most impactful campaign ads?

  30-10-2020 23:58
  
  Pollster Frank Luntz breaks own the most effective commercials of the campaign season on 'Special Report'
  
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• Joe Biden touts progressive platform in final days of campaign

  30-10-2020 23:58
  
  The Democratic nominee has his busiest day on the trail; Peter Doocy has the latest on 'Special Report'
  
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• Wigan give St Helens a French lesson to leapfrog rivals at top of Super League

  30-10-2020 23:56
  
  Wigan give St Helens a French lesson to leapfrog rivals at top of Super League* Bevan French magnificent in Wigan’s 18-6 win* Warrington 19-12 Huddersfield
  
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• Experts warn of ‘rapid increase’ in radical-right extremism and domestic terrorism following US election

  30-10-2020 23:55
  
  ‘We have seen this movie before,' open letter warns
  
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• The key states most likely to decide who wins the White House, Senate

  30-10-2020 23:52
  
  Chief political anchor and 'Special Report' host Bret Baier maps out the scenarios on the big board
  
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• Judge postpones Trump's TikTok ban in suit brought by users

  30-10-2020 23:48
  
  A federal judge has postponed President Donald Trump's threatened shutdown of the popular short-form video app TikTok, siding with a Pennsylvania comedian and two other TikTok creators who say Trump's order hampers their free speech.U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone on Friday blocked an upcoming Commerce Department action that would have effectively banned TikTok in the U.S. by cutting it off from vital technical services.The Trump administration has said TikTok is a security threat, citing
  
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• New DT A'Shawn Robinson eager to be Rams' midseason addition

  30-10-2020 23:41
  
  The Rams (5-2) activated Robinson to their 53-man roster Friday, but they haven't decided whether the hulking defensive tackle will play Sunday at Miami (3-3).The fifth-year pro has been practicing for two weeks, and he should provide an all-around boost to the interior of Los Angeles' defensive line when he finally gets the go-ahead to make his Rams debut.The 6-foot-4, 330-pound Robinson has obvious skills as a run-stopper, but he also batted down 16 passes during his first four NFL seasons wit
  
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• Coronavirus: Boris Johnson ‘considering second national lockdown' after chilling warnings of winter death toll

  30-10-2020 23:41
  
  Scientists believe action now needed to save Christmas
  
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• Trent Brown returns to practice for Raiders

  30-10-2020 23:39
  
  The Las Vegas Raiders activated right tackle Trent Brown from the COVID-19 list and could have him available a week after he missed a game because of a positive coronavirus test.Brown took part in his first practice Friday since being sidelined on Oct. 21 because of the positive test.Brown's test also forced the Raiders to practice all last week without the starting offensive line because of “high risk” close contacts with Brown.
  
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• Kate Garraway’s husband speaks for first time since Covid-19 hospital admission

  30-10-2020 23:33
  
  The Good Morning Britain host offered an update on her husband's condition.
  
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• Marc Anthony urges Puerto Ricans to back Biden in new ad, even though they can’t vote in US elections

  30-10-2020 23:32
  
  Both campaigns are courting support from residents of the territory, who are US citizens but can’t vote
  
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• How is the rest of the world taking the US election

  30-10-2020 23:30
  
  The 2020 U.S. presidential election is creating waves across the pond, where residents of the United Kingdom have taken interest; Greg Palkot reports
  
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• Kennedy cousin wont be retried in Martha Moxley case

  30-10-2020 23:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Michael Skakel spent 11 years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 2018
  
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• Coronavirus: Boris Johnson expected to impose second national lockdown after chilling warnings of winter death toll

  30-10-2020 23:26
  
  Scientists believe action now needed to save Christmas
  
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• One in four Americans think Trump and Biden are ‘too old’ to be president, Independent poll finds

  30-10-2020 23:25
  
  Exclusive poll: Most Americans say candidates aged 80 and older shouldn’t run
  
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• US agency sets rules for cruise ships to start sailing again

  30-10-2020 23:24
  
  Federal health officials on Friday issued new rules that will enable large cruise ships to start sailing again in U.S. waters, though not immediately.Among the requirements spelled out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Ship owners must test all passengers and crew at the start and end of all voyages, which are limited to seven days.In mid-March, the CDC ordered cruise ships to stop sailing to U.S. ports because several outbreaks convinced officials that the vessels were potentia
  
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• Indians decline options on closer Hand, 1B Santana for 2021

  30-10-2020 23:21
  
  The Cleveland Indians have declined contract options on Brad Hand, first baseman Carlos Santana and outfielder Domingo Santana for next season, moves that cut $30.75 million from the team's projected 2021 payroll.Hand's option was worth $10 million, Carlos Santana's was for $17.5 million and Domingo Santana's $5 million for next season.
  
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• ‘These guys are not very polite’: Biden calls Trump supporters who disrupted Minnesota rally ‘ugly folks’

  30-10-2020 23:20
  
  Joe Biden called Minnesotans disrupting his campaign rally “ugly folks” in the midst of criticizing Donald Trump for politicizing the Covid-19 pandemic.“Dr Fauci called for a mask mandate last week, this isn’t a isn’t political statement like those ugly folks over there beeping their horns, this is a patriotic duty for God sake,” Mr Biden said.Joe Biden lashed out at Minnesotans disrupting his campaign rally, saying the “ugly folks” were not polite
  
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• Coronavirus: Boris Johnson considering tougher national measures that could mean full lockdown

  30-10-2020 23:18
  
  The prime minister is considering new national lockdown restrictions, which could be imposed in England as early as next week.Whitehall sources confirmed Boris Johnson met his most senior cabinet colleagues on Friday to discuss the possible toughening of restrictions in light of worsening coronavirus infection rates and hospital admission data.Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove were all understood to be present at the discussi
  
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• Coronavirus: Boris Johnson considering lockdown for England as early as next week

  30-10-2020 23:18
  
  The prime minister is considering new national lockdown restrictions, which could be imposed in England as early as next week.Whitehall sources confirmed Boris Johnson met his most senior cabinet colleagues on Friday to discuss the possible toughening of restrictions in light of worsening coronavirus infection rates and hospital admission data.Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove were all understood to be present at the discussi
  
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• Pro-choice supporters hold biggest-ever protest against Polish government

  30-10-2020 23:15
  
  Pro-choice supporters hold biggest-ever protest against Polish governmentAbout 100,00o people take to the streets of Warsaw to oppose tightened abortion law
  
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• DC activist groups primed for Nov. 3 and whatever follows

  30-10-2020 23:15
  
  Activists in the nation's capital are banding together for Election Day, pooling resources, running training sessions for would-be demonstrators, forming rapid-reaction teams and setting up daylong events that are expected to draw large crowds.A collection of groups led by Black Lives Matter and Shutdown DC plan an eight-hour event at Black Lives Matter Plaza, one block from the White House, including a giant screen showing election results, DJs and performances by bands playing Washington&rsquo
  
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• Midshipman asks judge to block his removal over tweets

  30-10-2020 23:12
  
  Chase Standage, a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman facing expulsion over social media posts, sees himself as a casualty of a campus “culture war."An academy official recommended disenrolling the white midshipman for tweeting a flurry of crude messages, including one in which he said Breonna Taylor received “justice” on the day police in Louisville, Kentucky, killed the Black woman during a drug raid.U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander didn't immediately rule on Friday after presid
  
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• 22 dead, buildings collapse as major quake hits Turkey, Greece

  30-10-2020 23:11
  
  Map locating a magnitude 7 earthquake between the Greek island of Samos and the Turkish coast
  
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• Texas 2020: Predictions and what’s at stake in in the swing state

  30-10-2020 23:06
  
  The prospect of 38 electoral votes lost in a once-safe state is every Republican’s nightmare
  
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• Republicans prepare for post-Election Day legal fights in battleground states

  30-10-2020 23:06
  
  In the final countdown to Election Day, Republicans have surged resources to key battleground states, gearing up for legal battles that could decide the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, and are in the process of finalizing plans for post-election litigation and potential recounts, according to Republican officials and sources familiar with the legal strategy.Republicans have deployed 50,000 volunteers, attorneys and staff across the country -- primarily in presidential battleground sta
  
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• Brazil will buy China COVID-19 vaccine, VP Mourão says, contradicting Bolsonaro

  30-10-2020 23:02
  
  Brazil's government will "of course" buy a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine that is being tested in the country, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said on Friday, in the latest example of him contradicting President Jair Bolsonaro.Last week, Bolsonaro, a long-standing China critic, said the federal government would not buy a COVID-19 vaccine from China's Sinovac, one day after the health minister said that it would be included in the nation's immunization program.
  
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• Levin: Democrats' platform echoes Soviet Constitution of 1936

  30-10-2020 23:00
  
  'Life, Liberty & Levin' host warns of potential American transformation into communist society
  
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• Matthew McConaughey reacts to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s reunion during ‘Fast Times’ reading

  30-10-2020 22:59
  
  The sequence was the subject of much discussion on social media
  
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• Should Democrats be nervous about early voting trends?

  30-10-2020 22:56
  
  'The Five' discuss whether Joe Biden should be concerned about falling short in traditional Democrat strongholds
  
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• Conspiracy theorists forced to apologise for calling Victorian youth leader a Covid 'crisis actor'

  30-10-2020 22:54
  
  Conspiracy theorists forced to apologise for calling Victorian youth leader a Covid 'crisis actor'. Raphael Fernandez and Fanos Panayides used social media to accuse Ahmed Hassan of pretending to contract coronavirus to spread fear
  
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• Trump news – live: Ilhan Omar dubs president a 'neglected child', while he says Biden would let 'rioters' fun government

  30-10-2020 22:49
  
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• ‘We have lost so much in so short a time’: Bruce Springsteen condemns Trump administration in new poem

  30-10-2020 22:47
  
  ‘Where’d the country go?' asks Springsteen as he reads the verse
  
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• Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to defuse Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

  30-10-2020 22:44
  
  The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Friday to urgent steps after talks to resolve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh where hundreds have been killed in more than a month of fighting, a statement by major powers said.Armenia and Azerbaijan - whose three ceasefires have failed to halt the latest fighting - would communicate on issues "related to possible ceasefire verification mechanisms," it said.
  
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• Who is voting? Who is winning? Early vote only offers clues

  30-10-2020 22:43
  
  As early voting breaks records across the U.S., political analysts and campaigns are reviewing reams of data on the voters, looking for clues to key questions: Who is voting?Registered Democrats are outpacing registered Republicans significantly — by 14 percentage points — in states that are reporting voters' party affiliation, according to an Associated Press analysis of the early vote.Meanwhile, polls show Republicans have heeded President Donald Trump's baseless warnings about mai
  
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• 'Every freaking rally': Ilhan Omar blasts 'neglected child' Trump for continually insulting her

  30-10-2020 22:42
  
  ‘The president is a threat to public health,’ Minnesota representative tweeted ahead of rally in her state as number of Covid-19 cases hits record
  
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• Louisiana Shed Takes Flight as Hurricane Zeta Hits

  30-10-2020 22:41
  
  Powerful winds from Hurricane Zeta lifted a New Orleans–area shed from its foundation and left it in a tree on October 28. Video captured by the shed’s owner shows the moment its contents spill on the lawn as the structure is neatly lifted skyward.James Wiley recorded this footage, which shows his orange-and-white shed in Marrero, Louisiana, being battered by rain and wind when it suddenly takes flight. The shed flies into the air, leaving pool toys, a propane tank, and other miscell
  
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• Judge rules U.S. teenager should return to Wisconsin to face shooting charges

  30-10-2020 22:41
  
  Paul Novak, a judge in Lake County, Illinois, where 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse is being held, handed down a six-page ruling denying the teen's request for release and ruled he must raise his self-defense claims in a Wisconsin court.The ruling was issued hours after an extradition hearing at which Rittenhouse's lawyers did not call any witnesses on Friday, despite indicating that they may elicit testimony from his mother and four experts, including a lawyer who specializes in self-defense cases
  
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• Minnesota Democrats ramp up push for absentee ballot turnout

  30-10-2020 22:37
  
  Minnesota Democrats and election officials on Friday urged people with absentee ballots not yet mailed to drop them off by hand or vote in person, a day after an appellate court’s ruling raised questions about whether ballots that arrive up to seven days beyond Election Day would be counted.Thursday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said absentees arriving after Election Day should be separated from other ballots, raising the specter that they c
  
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• Jets' Franklin-Myers has persevered through lots of losing

  30-10-2020 22:32
  
  John Franklin-Myers has been 0-7 before.The New York Jets defensive lineman knows it can get a lot worse.Franklin-Myers somehow maintained a positive outlook and sacked any woe-is-me thoughts that dared enter his mind while his Greenville High School football team in Texas went 0-40 during his four years.
  
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• John Magufuli wins second presidential term in Tanzania

  30-10-2020 22:30
  
  John Magufuli has swept to victory in the presidential election in Tanzania. The 61-year-old was returned to power with 84 percent of votes in a poll his main rival branded a fraud."The commission declares John Magufuli of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) who garnered the majority of votes as the winner in the presidential seat,” said commission chairman Semistocles Kaijage.Tundu Lissu of the Chadema party won 13 percent of the vote on Wednesday. The 52-year-old denounced widesprea
  
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• Butterflywatch: is UK experiencing a clouded yellow autumn?

  30-10-2020 22:30
  
  Butterflywatch: is UK experiencing a clouded yellow autumn?The dynamic migratory butterfly looks to be sticking around beyond the summer
  
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• Trump falsely tells Michigan rally: 'Our doctors get more money if someone dies of Covid' – video

  30-10-2020 22:28
  
  Donald Trump has attacked the doctors who have been treating coronavirus patients on the frontline of the pandemic. Speaking during a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Michigan, the US president said: 'Our doctors get more money if someone dies from Covid. You know that, right? I mean, our doctors are very smart people.'US news - live updates Continue reading...
  
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• 19 dead, buildings collapse as major quake hits Turkey, Greece

  30-10-2020 22:17
  
  Map locating a magnitude 7 earthquake between the Greek island of Samos and the Turkish coast
  
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• Report: US turning away asylum-seekers at border is flawed

  30-10-2020 22:16
  
  The head of the Department of Homeland Security ordered border agents to stop asylum-seekers from stepping on U.S. soil at official crossings with Mexico in 2018, undercutting public statements at the time that they were welcome to do so, according to a government watchdog report published Friday.The DHS inspector general also found those trying to seek asylum at four official crossings were removed to Mexico before having a chance to seek protection from persecution back home, contrary to U.S.
  
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• ‘Islam is being hyper-politicised in France, but Muslims are not part of the debate'

  30-10-2020 22:14
  
  The resurgence in attacks by radical Islamists on French soil has rekindled fierce debates on Islam, secularism and discrimination in France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim population. But Muslim voices are largely kept out of the conversation. On October 2, the day President Emmanuel Macron unveiled his plan to fight “Islamist separatism” in France, the mayor of the Paris suburb of Trappes, 35-year-old Ali Rabeh, was invited by French broadcaster CNews to discuss Macron&rsquo
  
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• ‘Islam is being hyper-politicised in France, but Muslims are not in the debate'

  30-10-2020 22:14
  
  The resurgence in attacks by radical Islamists on French soil has rekindled fierce debates on Islam, secularism and discrimination in France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim population. But Muslim voices are largely kept out of the conversation. On October 2, the day President Emmanuel Macron unveiled his plan to fight “Islamist separatism” in France, the mayor of the Paris suburb of Trappes, 35-year-old Ali Rabeh, was invited by French broadcaster CNews to discuss Macron&rsquo
  
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• ‘Islam is being hyper-politicised in France, but Muslims are not part of the debate’

  30-10-2020 22:14
  
  The resurgence in attacks by radical Islamists on French soil has rekindled fierce debates on Islam, secularism and discrimination in France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim population. But Muslim voices are largely kept out of the conversation. On October 2, the day President Emmanuel Macron unveiled his plan to fight “Islamist separatism” in France, the mayor of the Paris suburb of Trappes, 35-year-old Ali Rabeh, was invited by French broadcaster CNews to discuss Macron&rsquo
  
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• Can Trump pull off a surprise victory in Wisconsin one more time?

  30-10-2020 22:12
  
  Former Gov. Scott Walker tells 'Your World' the race in the Badger State is closer than surveys indicate
  
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• Walmart returns guns and ammunition to US store displays

  30-10-2020 22:11
  
  Walmart has reversed course, announcing it is returning ammunition and firearms to their displays in its U.S. stores.On Thursday the nation’s largest retailer said it had removed the items from displays due to “civil unrest” in some areas of the country.Guns and ammunition, however, had remained for sale at the stores, just not visible to shoppers.
  
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