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• The man who made flying affordable to millions of Indians

  14-11-2020 04:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new biopic pays tribute to Capt GR Gopinath who launched India's first budget airline.
  
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• Biden's possible India links spark genealogical frenzy

  14-11-2020 03:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Already bursting with pride at Kamala Harris's ancestry, India has now started digging up potential local roots for US President-elect Joe Biden.
  
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• Prosecutors ask Barr to rescind memo on U.S. vote counting irregularities - Washington Post

  14-11-2020 03:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. prosecutors are asking Attorney General William Barr to rescind a memo issued earlier this week that instructed them to publicly investigate "substantial" allegations of vote counting irregularities, saying they have not seen the unusual activity, the Washington Post reported on Friday.The 16 assistant U.S. attorneys specially assigned to monitor the presidential election this month also said Barr's Monday memorandum had thrust prosecutors into partisan politics and that the policy change w
  
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• In California: Newsom bemoans attending dinner; travel discouraged

  14-11-2020 02:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Plus: College football and COVID-19, Trump breaks a record, and has the pandemic made San Francisco more affordable?
  
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• Fact check: Claim that Pennsylvania case is proof of ‘dead people’ voting is under investigation

  14-11-2020 02:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Pennsylvania’s ballot tracker shows a recorded mail-in ballot for a Denise Ondick, officials have yet to determine this was voter fraud.
  
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• GOP captures second Democratic US House seat in California

  14-11-2020 02:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Young Kim defeated U.S. Rep. Gil Cisneros on Friday in a Southern California district, the second GOP candidate to snatch a Democratic-held seat in the state this year.The contest in the 39th Congressional District anchored in Orange County was a rematch from 2018, when Cisneros was one of seven Democrats who claimed GOP-held California districts that year.Kim overcame President Donald Trump’s poor performance in heavily Democratic California, where he got only one-third of the
  
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• A Republican House candidate prematurely claimed victory in a race to unseat Democratic congresswoman Lauren Underwood, and then went to new member orientation even after she was declared the winner

  14-11-2020 02:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Jim Oberweis doesn't get to call this election: the voters do. There are thousands of votes that have yet to be counted," Rep. Lauren Underwood said.
  
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• Elon Musk's positive COVID-19 test means he likely can't attend SpaceX's astronaut launch on Sunday, based on NASA rules

  14-11-2020 02:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Musk's positive tests couldn't have come at a worse time: SpaceX is set to launch four NASA astronauts into orbit for its Crew-1 mission on Sunday.
  
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• Nevada governor tests positive for COVID-19

  14-11-2020 02:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The governor said the result came as part of routine testing procedure.
  
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• Pelosi's office backs down. Incoming House member dinner switches to boxed meals after event gets skewered on social media.

  14-11-2020 02:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pelosi's chief of staff tweeted "Members-elect are now picking up their boxed meals and departing the Capitol. There is no group dinner."
  
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• Mike Pence secretly attended his daughter’s wedding two days before election

  14-11-2020 01:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The vice president and Second Lady Karen Pence were on hand to see youngest child Audrey Pence Tomanelli tie the knot.The bride posted a black and white picture to Instagram of her parents watching her kiss husband Daniel Tomanelli outside the steps of a courthouse.There is no sign of anyone in the wedding pictures wearing a mask but they are all socially distancing.
  
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• Haiti is running low on fuel again as sweet deal with fuel supplier turns sour

  14-11-2020 01:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Another sweet deal has gone sour in Haiti.
  
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• Convicted Killer Evaded Capture for 50 Years—Until He Got Sloppy in His New Life

  14-11-2020 01:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in a small Detroit suburb stumbled onto the discovery of a lifetime recently when they charged a man for stealing hydrocodone pills from the local CVS pharmacy where he worked. After fingerprinting the man, a licensed traveling pharmacist by the name of Paul Dickson, authorities learned they had much more on their hands than a case of petty theft: Paul Dickson was in fact Leonard Rayne Moses, a convicted killer who’d been on the lam for nearly five decades.“We’ve never f
  
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• Trump and GOP rush to “quietly pack the FEC with partisans” after election, watchdog group warns

  14-11-2020 01:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FEC would have three Republicans, two independents and only one Democrat if the Senate moves forward
  
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• Teen facing death penalty after being accused of murdering five relatives has shown ‘no remorse’

  14-11-2020 00:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘He has not shown any sign of remorse. While in detention, he has not talked about his family at all,’ probation officer says
  
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• Trump attacks N.Y. gov, says he'll withhold Covid vaccine from state until Cuomo approves

  14-11-2020 00:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In his first public comments in over a week, Trump, who is yet to concede in the election, criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said he planned to have a panel of experts review a vaccine.
  
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• 20 million Americans will get a COVID vaccine this year, administration says

  14-11-2020 00:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration promised that 20 million Americans would receive a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
  
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• Tourist posed as US marshal to land discounts in Pigeon Forge, feds say

  14-11-2020 00:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities said he even flashed a fake badge.
  
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• Supreme Court agrees to hear California grower's challenge to state farm labor law

  14-11-2020 00:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Do union organizers have a right to go on agricultural land, or does that violate private property rights? The Supreme Court will decide.
  
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• Republican Martha McSally finally concedes Arizona Senate race a week after election

  14-11-2020 00:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mark Kelly had already claimed victory and travelled to Washington DC
  
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• 20 million Americans could get a coronavirus vaccine next month, according to the head of Operation Warp Speed

  13-11-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even more people could start receiving coronavirus shots next year, if the top experimental vaccines get a green light from regulators.
  
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• Trump appears to almost accept that he lost the election

  13-11-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While talking about the possibility of further restrictions due to COVID-19 in a speech at the White House Friday, President Trump seemed to almost acknowledge that he was defeated by President-elect Joe Biden.
  
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• Judge Smacks Down Detroit Voter Fraud Lawsuit: ‘Rife with Speculation’

  13-11-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Michigan circuit judge on Friday refused to block the certification of the Detroit area’s election results after a conservative legal nonprofit filed a lawsuit alleging massive voter fraud in the heavily Democratic city.In his ruling, Wayne County circuit judge Timothy Kenny called the allegations made in the conservative Great Lake Justice Center’s lawsuit “incorrect and not credible.”The election challengers named in the suit “paint a picture of sinister fraudul
  
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• Trump walks away from Covid briefing refusing to take questions about the election

  13-11-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They were his first public remarks in nearly a week
  
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• Trump says he may ‘stop by’ at MAGA rally in Washington DC in tweet immediately flagged by Twitter

  13-11-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Since losing the 2020 election, the president has used Twitter almost exclusively to vent baseless allegations of voter fraud
  
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• Trump seemingly nearly slips and acknowledges his election loss

  13-11-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's update about the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to nearly collide with the elephant in the room — his election loss.Trump spoke publicly on Friday for the first time since the presidential election, addressing the coronavirus pandemic and vowing he'd never implement lockdown measures to help curb the out-of-control spread of the virus. "This administration will not be going to a lockdown," Trump said.But he seemed to catch himself from preemptively criticizing the future Biden
  
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• CDC: Wearing a mask could keep you from catching virus

  13-11-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. health officials are taking a new tack to encourage Americans to wear masks: They're emphasizing recent research that a mask protects the person who wears it.Previously, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised people to wear masks because of evidence that it stops people who are infected with coronavirus — whether they know it or not — from spreading it to others.It continues to advise Americans to wear masks to stop the virus from spreading.
  
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• SpaceX's next astronaut mission for NASA has been delayed until Sunday due to wind and issues with the rocket-booster recovery

  13-11-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This is the fourth time NASA has delayed the launch of its Crew-1 mission with SpaceX, but the first time due to weather.
  
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• Trump appears to acknowledge for first time that Biden could succeed him

  13-11-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump insisted on Friday he would never put the United States into a coronavirus lockdown but said "time will tell" if another administration takes office in January and does so, the closest he has come to acknowledging that President-elect Joe Biden could succeed him.In his first public remarks since Biden last Saturday was widely projected the winner, Trump said he expects a coronavirus vaccine to be available for the entire population as soon as April, amid a crush of new inf
  
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• Newsom apologizes for attending French Laundry party

  13-11-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Newsom says he "should have modeled better behavior" after he attended a birthday party last week in Napa County despite the state's guidelines about small gatherings.
  
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• Michigan judge says cheating claims based on ignorance of how elections work

  13-11-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Michigan judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit alleging cheating during the Nov. 3 election, agreeing with Detroit that most claims were made by individuals who did not understand the vote-counting processes.
  
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• Disgruntled Mississippi lawmaker wants his state to secede. Fine with me. Bye! | Opinion

  13-11-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dear Price Wallace:
  
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• More than 200 incarcerated people and staff at Texas prisons and jails have died from coronavirus, report shows

  13-11-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  11 of the 14 incarcerated individuals in jails who died from coronavirus were not convicted of a crime, per the report.
  
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• Michigan judge says GOP election challengers skipped training session, didn't fully understand process

  13-11-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Michigan judge has shot down an attempt to delay the certification of 2020 election results in Detroit, Michigan, after determining that challengers lacked a "full understanding" of the process and their claims weren't credible.Judge Timothy Kenny on Friday rejected two poll challengers' bid to stop vote certification in Detroit, where President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Trump, saying it "would be an unprecedented exercise of judicial activism for this court" to do so, CNN reports. Th
  
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• Kayleigh McEnany claims Trump will ‘attend his own inauguration’ on 20 January 2021

  13-11-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘He would have to be there in fact’
  
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• Alito takes aim at gay marriage in 'politically charged speech'

  13-11-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a speech to the conservative Federalist Society, Justice Samuel Alito lamented that opposing same-sex marriage is now "considered bigotry."
  
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• GOP State Legislative Leaders Rule Out Appointing Pro-Trump Electors in Defiance of Vote

  13-11-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican state legislative leaders in several swing states are ruling out a long-shot strategy to reelect President Trump that would involve the GOP-led state legislatures in swing states overruling the popular vote and choosing electors that would vote for Trump over President-elect Joe Biden.However, the Republican majority leaders of the state legislatures in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina indicated to the New York Times this week that they do not see such
  
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• Austrian colonel 'spied on Nato for Russia'

  13-11-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A retired Austrian colonel has been unmasked as one of Russia's key informants about Nato, whose intelligence was likely to have been used to plan the Salisbury poisonings. Martin Möller, 72 – identified by a pan-European operation involving MI6 – is believed to have dealt directly with the notorious Russian Unit 29155, which worked to destabilise Europe and carried out foreign assassinations, a Telegraph investigation has found. On Friday night, Mr Möller admitted he had s
  
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• Sudan to host Russian military base

  13-11-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The naval logistics center in Sudan will be Russia’s first military base in Africa since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  
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• ‘What a mess’: Billionaire Charles Koch says he regrets fueling partisanship

  13-11-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mr Koch has helped put billions behind Republican causes in the US
  
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• As Trump refuses to concede defeat, far-right groups plan show of support in Washington

  13-11-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Trump has refused to accept that he lost the election to Democrat Joe Biden, now president-elect, adding to tensions.Trump's supporters, including Republican lawmakers, have amplified his claims that the election was stolen from him.The protests in the nation's capital will bring together far-right personalities, including conspiracy theorist and Infowars broadcaster Alex Jones and self-described "American Nationalist" Nicholas Fuentes.
  
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• It just got harder for immigrants: the U.S. naturalization test is about to change

  13-11-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. legal permanent residents who apply for citizenship through naturalization on or after Dec. 1, 2020, will face a more challenging test — in which immigrants must prove they can read, write and speak basic English, and have essential knowledge of U.S. history and government.
  
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• The victim didn’t want charges in a flare gun shooting. But that’s not stopping police

  13-11-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Florida Keys man was shot in the head with a flare gun earlier this year in a Marathon parking lot.
  
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• California governor went to party, violated own virus rules

  13-11-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For months, Gov. Gavin Newsom has pleaded with Californians to resist the temptation to socialize with friends and relatives outside their household.Newsom acknowledged Friday he attended a birthday party with a dozen friends on Nov. 6 at the posh French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco.Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor of public policy communication at the University of Southern California, noted people across the state have been canceling birthday parties, funerals and
  
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• 'CDC is putting American lives at risk': Members of Congress call for CDC to reinstate cruise 'no-sail' order

  13-11-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two members of Congress are calling for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reinstate its cruise "no-sail" order.
  
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• Scores killed in massacre amid intense conflict in Ethiopia

  13-11-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amnesty International said it can confirm likely hundreds of people were killed in Ethiopia's semi-autonomous region of Tigray.
  
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• A Biden COVID-19 advisor suggested a national lockdown lasting up to 6 weeks, but said the idea was unlikely to gain support

  13-11-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Thursday Michael Osterholm told ABC News that he had not discussed this idea with others and added he did not believe it would gain support.
  
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• After Biden win, Black activists demand reparations for slavery, police reform

  13-11-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After helping to deliver crucial votes in a Biden-Harris win, Black Lives Matter activists say defunding the police and other issues need action.
  
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• 'The long knives are out': The Pentagon purge may be less about a Trump plan than end-of-presidency chaos and revenge

  13-11-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A series of personnel changes placing Trump loyalists in key Defense Department positions has sparked rumors of plans for dramatic action in the waning days of his presidency, but a number of former national security officials see it more as the chaotic final days of an outgoing administration.
  
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• Scott Peterson to stay at San Quentin as judge mulls retrial

  13-11-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  No one outside of San Quentin State Prison will be seeing Scott Peterson in person anytime soon as officials consider if he should face a new trial in the headline-grabbing slayings of his pregnant wife and unborn child, a California judge decided Friday.San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo had been concerned that Peterson, 48, would have difficulty staying in touch with his defense attorneys from the prison, where he's been housed since he was sentenced to death in 2005, a
  
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