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• Snow, ice, torrential rain brings weather havoc to 39 states, 200 million people

  20-02-2019 00:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A powerful storm will roar across the US over the next 2 days, spreading heavy snow, torrential rain, and crippling ice to more than 200 million Americans.
  
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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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