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• Trump: Biden 'should not wrongfully claim' presidency

  06-11-2020 23:59 via rt.com
  
  US President Donald Trump warned his Democrat challenger Joe Biden not to claim victory in the election prematurely, saying the legal challenges are just beginning.
  "Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President. I could make that claim also," Trump tweeted on Friday night, ahead of Biden's announced address to the nation. "Legal proceedings are just now beginning!" the president added. Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President. I could make that claim
  
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• Police: Dallas Shootout Kills Suspect, Wounds Campus Officer

  06-11-2020 23:56
  Authorities say an exchange of gunfire in downtown Dallas left a community college police officer injured and a suspect fatally wounded.
  
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• Police Seek Suspect in Sioux City Apartment Complex Shooting

  06-11-2020 23:52
  Police have identified a suspect in the weekend shooting of a man at an apartment complex in Iowa.
  
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• Paul Shanley, priest at center of sex scandal, dead at 89

  06-11-2020 23:50
  
  A former Roman Catholic street priest who played a pivotal role in the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Archdiocese of Boston has died, authorities said Friday.Paul Shanley was 89.Police in Ware, a town in west-central Massachusetts where Shanley was living since his release from prison in 2017, confirmed his death but did not say how he died.
  
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• Global Crisis Group Warns of Post-Election U.S. Violence

  06-11-2020 23:47
  
  A global think tank that focuses on conflict warns of violence during ballot counting and urges restraint by both U.S. leaders and media.
  
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• Trump's Attacks on Mail-In Ballots Rankle Some Military Vets

  06-11-2020 23:45
  
  President Donald Trump has held himself up as a champion of U.S. troops without rival.
  
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• North Carolina Republicans Seek Data to Resolve Top Races

  06-11-2020 23:45
  North Carolina Republicans are pressing state election officials to make public more information about the number of outstanding ballots from this week’s election that could be counted.
  
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• 1 Killed, Two Wounded in Joshua Tree Residential Shooting

  06-11-2020 23:45
  Southern California detectives are seeking the motive in a shooting that left a woman dead and two men wounded in a Joshua Tree home.
  
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• Pro-Marijuana Candidates Could Impact Minnesota Senate Races

  06-11-2020 23:43
  Votes for pro-marijuana candidates could be the difference in a pair of Minnesota state Senate races, where those candidates pulled in thousands of votes despite little campaigning.
  
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• Evangelicals Stick With Trump, See Upside Even if He Loses

  06-11-2020 23:43
  
  The conservative evangelical Christians who helped send Donald Trump to the White House four years ago stuck by him again in 2020.
  
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• Evangelical Voters Stick with President Trump, Hail Conservative Success in Down-Ballot Races

  06-11-2020 23:43
  
  The conservative evangelical Christians who helped send Donald Trump to the White House four years ago stuck by him in 2020. But even if Trump doesn’t get a second term, some conservative Christians see reasons to celebrate this year’s election results. White evangelical voters made up 23 percent of the vote nationwide and overwhelmingly favored…
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• Autopsies Set After Deaths of 3 Mississippi Inmates

  06-11-2020 23:42
  The Mississippi Department of Corrections says autopsies will be done on three inmates who died recently.
  
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• Pelosi Pleads with Democrats for Support as She Announces Bid To Retain Speaker Post

  06-11-2020 23:40
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent personalized letters to fellow Congressional Democrats on Thursday asking for their backing in re-electing her to the speaker position. Although a winner had not been declared as of Friday afternoon in the presidential race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, Pelosi referred to Biden as the…
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• Seoul goes all-in on presumption that Joe Biden won, launching efforts to build connections with ‘the new administration’

  06-11-2020 23:38 via rt.com
  
  South Korea's ruling party is moving ahead as if Joe Biden's US election victory is fait accompli, racing to find people who have ties with the Democrat candidate as part of a push to curry favor with the presumed president-elect.National Assembly member Song Young-gil will lead a task force traveling to the US on Nov. 16 to make contact with Biden associates who will play a key role in Korean Peninsula issues, ruling-party leader Lee Nak-yon said on Friday.Also on rt.com‘Happy day’:
  
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• Seoul goes all-in on presumption Joe Biden won, launching efforts to build connections with ‘new administration’

  06-11-2020 23:38 via rt.com
  
  South Korea's ruling party is moving ahead as if Joe Biden's election victory is a fait accompli, racing to find people who have ties with the Democrat candidate as part of a push to curry favor with the presumed president-elect.National Assembly member Song Young-gil will lead a task force traveling to the US on November 16 to make contact with Biden associates who will play a key role in Korean Peninsula issues, ruling-party leader Lee Nak-yon said on Friday.Also on rt.com‘Happy day&rsqu
  
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• Top Wyoming Republicans Dodge Question About Trump Remarks

  06-11-2020 23:35
  Wyoming’s new U.S. senator-elect, Cynthia Lummis, and top Wyoming officials refuse to say if they agree with President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that Democrats are trying to steal the presidential election.
  
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• Miami Judge Blasts Venezuela's Top Airline for 'Fraud'

  06-11-2020 23:35
  Two Venezuelan businessmen convicted in the U.S. as unregistered agents of the late Hugo Chavez have scored a major victory in a Miami courtroom in a bitter fight for control of the country’s largest private airline.
  
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• Math Teacher to Stand Trial in Harassment of Health Officer

  06-11-2020 23:33
  A California community college math instructor with ties to the far-right, anti-government “boogaloo” movement has been ordered to stand trial on charges that he sent threatening letters to a county health officer.
  
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• Red Sox Bring Back Cora, Rehiring Manager From 2018 Title

  06-11-2020 23:31
  
  The Boston Red Sox are bringing back Alex Cora as manager.
  
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• Cops looking for man wanted in the death of a 56-year-old in a Broward parking lot

  06-11-2020 23:29
  
  The Broward Sheriff’s Office says detectives know who killed a 56-year-old man earlier this year, but they need help in finding him.
  
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• EXPLAINER: Why Ballot-Counting in Nevada Is Dragging On

  06-11-2020 23:28
  
  The vote-counting in Nevada is being criticized for taking too long, but government officials say they are emphasizing accuracy over speed in a year when processing mail-in ballots under extended deadlines is simply taking more time.
  
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• Forecasters: More Snow Headed to New Mexico

  06-11-2020 23:25
  New Mexico is in line for some more snow.
  
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• 2020 Latest: Harris Set to Speak Before Biden in TV Address

  06-11-2020 23:25
  
  Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is expected to deliver remarks Friday alongside Joe Biden.
  
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• The Latest: Virus Infections Continue Rapid Spread in Oregon

  06-11-2020 23:22
  
  Coronavirus infections are continuing a rapid spread across Iowa, pushing hospitalizations and patients in intensive care to new highs as Iowa medical centers prepared for an onslaught of patients.
  
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• Indictment: Former Police Officer Assaulted Cuffed Man

  06-11-2020 23:18
  A former St. Louis area police officer has been indicted on charges alleging that he assaulted a handcuffed man and then filed a false report claiming that the man was resisting arrest.
  
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• North Dakota Reports Rare Disease in Child With COVID-19

  06-11-2020 23:17
  A North Dakota child with the coronavirus has been confirmed to have a rare condition that causes inflammation in different parts of the body.
  
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• U.S. Republicans Divided Over Trump's Election-Fraud Claims

  06-11-2020 23:16
  
  By Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - As President Donald Trump fumes over the unfolding U.S. presidential election results, some of his fellow...
  
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• U.S. Republicans divided over Trump's election-fraud claims

  06-11-2020 23:16
  
  As President Donald Trump fumes over the unfolding U.S. presidential election results, some of his fellow Republicans in Congress have hinted that he ought to tone down his rhetoric.Three days after the election, votes are still being tallied in the closely fought battleground states of Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is riding an expanding lead over Trump, a Republican, that could bring him victory.
  
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• Illinois Breaks Single-Day COVID-19 Record Set a Day Ago

  06-11-2020 23:16
  Illinois Gov. J.
  
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• Brazil's COVID-19 Deaths Pass 162,000, With 5.6 Million Cases: Ministry

  06-11-2020 23:16
  
  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil reported 18,862 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 279 deaths from COVID-19,...
  
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• Rapper King Von Among 3 Killed in Atlanta Shooting

  06-11-2020 23:10
  Investigators in Georgia say Chicago rapper King Von was among three people shot and killed in an early shooting Friday outside a nightclub in Atlanta that also left three people wounded.
  
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• New York AG: Sotheby's Helped Rich Art Lover Skirt Taxes

  06-11-2020 23:10
  New York's attorney general is suing Sotheby's, saying the prominent auction house helped an art collector dodge millions of dollars in New York sales taxes by claiming he was an art dealer for tax purposes.
  
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• FDA Panel Urges Rejection of Experimental Alzheimer's Drug

  06-11-2020 23:10
  
  Government health advisers have sharply criticized an experimental Alzheimer’s drug.
  
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• Philadelphia police investigate bomb threat against vote counting center

  06-11-2020 23:04
  
  On Friday, Philadelphia police investigated a bomb threat made against the city's Convention Center, where votes are still being tallied, while also revealing additional information pertaining to arrests made on Thursday related to a possible threat against the same location.In a news conference, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw confirmed that police arrested two out-of-state men on Thursday following a tip from the FBI that warned "an individual or a group was traveling to the c
  
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• 2 Teens Killed After Vehicle Plunges Into Nebraska Lake

  06-11-2020 23:02
  Authorities are investing a one-vehicle accident that killed two teenagers after their vehicle went under the water at a Nebraska lake.
  
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• ‘WJ Live’: What Would a Biden Presidency Look Like?

  06-11-2020 23:01
  
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• Trump's Wild Claims Test Limits of Republican Loyalty

  06-11-2020 23:01
  
  President Donald Trump’s wild and unsupported claims of voter fraud have emerged as a high-stakes Republican loyalty test that illustrates the tug of war likely to define the future of the GOP whether he wins or loses.
  
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• Audit Finds $8M in Potential Missouri Medicaid Overpayments

  06-11-2020 22:57
  A state audit shows Missouri overpaid as much as $8 million for Medicaid health care for prisoners and out-of-state residents in recent years.
  
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• Utah Teachers Call for Remote Learning as Virus Cases Surge

  06-11-2020 22:49
  
  Utah’s largest teachers union has called for the governor to move all public secondary schools in high coronavirus transmission areas to remote learning.
  
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• Ohio Lawmakers Urge School Funding Fix as Session Nears End

  06-11-2020 22:49
  State senators are touting the newest bipartisan proposal for fixing Ohio’s school funding system, with changes to address concerns raised about another version in the House.
  
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• Advocates race to find Georgia voters to correct bad ballots

  06-11-2020 22:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Volunteers search for voters whose ballots were initially rejected but could be "cured" with a signature or an ID before the Friday deadline.
  
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• Utah Public School Enrollment Falls for 1st Time Since 2000

  06-11-2020 22:47
  The state Board of Education says enrollment in Utah public schools has declined for the first time since 2000.
  
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• Student's BB Gun Suspension Prompts Louisiana Law Change

  06-11-2020 22:45
  Gov. John Bel Edwards has agreed to change Louisiana’s student discipline laws in response to the suspension of a 9-year-old student because a teacher saw a BB gun in his bedroom during online classes.
  
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• Thousands of Facebook Groups Buzzed With Calls for Violence Ahead of U.S. Election

  06-11-2020 22:43
  
  By Katie PaulSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Before Facebook Inc shut down a rapidly growing "Stop the Steal" Facebook Group on Thursday, the forum...
  
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• Missouri Poll Worker Kept COVID Diagnosis Mostly to Herself

  06-11-2020 22:36
  
  A Missouri election judge who came to work despite testing positive for the coronavirus died in her sleep after a 15-hour shift at the polls.
  
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• Ex-Minneapolis Officer Charged With Civil Rights Violations

  06-11-2020 22:36
  A former Minneapolis police officer has been charged with federal civil rights violations along with multiple counts of extortion and acquiring drugs.
  
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• Denver Urges People to Stay Home as Coronavirus Cases Spike

  06-11-2020 22:36
  
  Denver officials are urging residents to stay home between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in an effort to stem the tide of coronavirus cases, which could overwhelm area hospitals by the end of the year.
  
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• Stocks Close a Blistering Week, Even as Uncertainty Lingers

  06-11-2020 22:34
  
  Wall Street took a breather Friday after a blistering rally that gave the market its biggest weekly gain since April and indicated investors see plenty of benefits from more gridlock in Washington.
  
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• Advocates Race to Find Voters to Correct Flawed Ballots

  06-11-2020 22:34
  
  Advocates for both presidential candidates are racing to find every person in Georgia who submitted a flawed ballot before time runs out to fix the paperwork.
  
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• Kentucky GOP Leaders, McConnell Praise Statewide Victories

  06-11-2020 22:33
  
  Kentucky state legislature leadership and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called new GOP victories a sign of a major transformation of Kentucky’s political landscape at a Friday news conference.
  
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