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• 'I didn't lie': Subdued, defensive Trump denies he misled public

  10-09-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump, subdued but sharply defensive, insisted Thursday he hadn't lied to the American public about the severity of coronavirus even though he told a journalist on tape he was downplaying it to avoid panic.
  
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• Kushner Thought Trump Wasn’t Campaigning Enough During COVID Crisis: Book

  10-09-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the White House increasingly shifted to re-election mode in the early months of 2019, Jared Kushner told his father-in-law one of the key promises of his 2016 campaign had to be fulfilled to make his 2020 reelection chances “super-strong.” “Number one, build the wall and get the immigration numbers down. That’s a promise that’s not being kept,” Kushner said to the president, according to Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, noting it was “the sig
  
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• Biden laughs about Trump's 'Slow Joe' nickname

  10-09-2020 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden vows to be transparent about his health if he's elected president and laughs at Trump's "Slow Joe" nickname.
  
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• NFL player accused of bilking $1.2 million from federal COVID-19 loan program

  10-09-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A veteran NFL player was arrested Thursday on charges of bilking more than $1 million from a loan program meant to help small businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said.
  
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• Why is America shielding foreign terrorists from the death penalty? | Opinion

  10-09-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bill Barr is killing Americans but sparing terrorists.
  
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• Collins won't say in debate who she'll vote for in November

  10-09-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrat Sara Gideon sought to link Republican Sen. Susan Collins, of Maine, with President Donald Trump during their first debate Friday night, and she demanded several times that Collins say whether she’ll vote for him — a dare Collins wouldn't take.Collins, who has said she didn't vote for Trump four years ago, brushed off the question, saying voters are more interested in talking to her about issues than who she supports in the presidential race.“Let me say this: I don&rsqu
  
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• South Dakota governor says study blaming motorbike rally for 260,000 coronavirus infections ‘completely false’

  10-09-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  State has reportedly seen 126 per cent increase in cases over last two weeks
  
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• Deadly wildfires rage in Western states: 'I never want to see California again'

  10-09-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 90 wildfires driven by strong winds were racing through more than a dozen Western states on Thursday. Here are the latest developments.
  
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• U.S. judges reject Trump plan to exclude many immigrants from representation

  10-09-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A panel of judges on Thursday declared unlawful a directive from President Donald Trump to exclude people who are in the United States illegally from representation when apportioning congressional seats.The decision by a three-judge panel, which could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, is a victory for the 38 states, cities and counties, plus several immigrants rights nonprofits, that sued over the July 21 directive.The mostly Democratic-leaning plaintiffs, led by New York state, accused the
  
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• Mayor Turner near tears after video shown of officers shooting suicidal man

  10-09-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The April shooting of Nicolas Chavez led to the firings of the four officers involved.
  
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• U.S. weekly jobless claims losing momentum labor market recovery showing signs of fatigue

  10-09-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits hovered at high levels last week, suggesting the labor market recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic was stalling.
  
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• A Baltimore woman's coronavirus test took so long that by the time she received the results, she was already in the hospital

  10-09-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For most in the US, coronavirus testing has gotten speedier since the start of the pandemic. But 10% of Americans still wait 10+ days to get a result.
  
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• Teacher, 28, dies of Covid-19 as US schools prepare for return to classrooms

  10-09-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Demetria Bannister taught elementary school in South Carolina* New York City to resume in-person classes in 11 daysA 28-year-old elementary school teacher in Columbia, South Carolina, died this week from complications due to Covid-19, authorities have said.Demetria “Demi” Bannister, who taught third grade at Windsor elementary school, died on Monday.“With heavy hearts … administrators share this information with permission from Ms Bannister’s parents who wish to
  
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• Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption message continues, despite poisoning, in videos released by his foundation

  10-09-2020 23:12 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Alexei Navalny’s team is not backing down in the face of a danger as ominous as Novichok poisoning.
  
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• People are making apocalyptic gender reveal party memes after one sparked a 12,000-acre fire in California

  10-09-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A gender reveal party in San Bernardino County, California, started the catastrophic El Dorado Fire, and people are making memes mocking the parties.
  
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• Scientists are seeing an 'acceleration of pandemics': They are looking at climate change

  10-09-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COVID-19 may only be the beginning of global pandemics – a future scenario in which climate change may also play a role. Here's what the experts say.
  
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• Trump campaign asks US judge to kill Nevada vote-by-mail law

  10-09-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the election draws near, the Trump campaign continues its fight against mail-in voting.
  
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• Trump supporters are increasingly isolated in their denial of systemic racism, according to new polling data

  10-09-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Only 9% of Trump voters think it's harder to be Black than white in the US, leaving his base far from the rest of the country, a new Pew poll shows.
  
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• Trump's 'Great American Comeback' campaign ad shows Ukraine stock footage

  10-09-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The commercials are running in the battleground states of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan
  
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• Young Latinos say racial equality is a 2020 election priority. But who's listening?

  10-09-2020 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Asked to name a political figure who had shown up for the Latino community, the top answer was “nobody.”
  
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• LI student arrested after attempting to attend school in-person while suspended

  10-09-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A high school senior from Long Island who is protesting remote learning was arrested on Thursday after attempting to attend in-person classes while suspended.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes may attempt to claim 'mental disease' in Theranos criminal case

  10-09-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of Theranos, may seek a "mental disease" defense in her criminal fraud trial, according to a new court document.
  
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• Senate Democrats block $300 billion coronavirus stimulus package, leaving little hope for relief before November

  10-09-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Democrats blocked a $300 billion COVID-19 stimulus bill Thursday, leaving little chance that Congress will pass much-needed financial relief for Americans weathering the coronavirus pandemic ahead of the November election
  
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• Coronavirus updates: Senate fails to advance $300B relief bill; FDA pledges not to rush vaccine; evidence of cat infections

  10-09-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Slimmed-down coronavirus bill fails to move forward. Los Angeles officials walk back Halloween guidelines. FDA won't rush vaccine. Latest COVID news.
  
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• Delta Force Soldier Selected for Medal of Honor Casts Light on Bravery of Fallen Teammate

  10-09-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler was killed leading Kurdish forces through a storm of gunfire.
  
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• Daughter of Trump supporter who died of COVID: 'The president is on record lying'

  10-09-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We’re taught to follow our leaders especially during times of crisis. For people like my dad, he trusted Donald Trump," she said.
  
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• Dr. Fauci said Trump's attention span is 'like a minus number' and the president's 'sole purpose is to get reelected,' according to Woodward's book

  10-09-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci disputed the quotes in Bob Woodward's book and said he did not "recall" making those statements.
  
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• Was Don Lewis pushed from a plane?

  10-09-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Correspondent Richard Schlesinger uses his skills as a pilot to test theories raised in the 1997 disappearance of Don Lewis — the former husband of Carole Baskin, who was a key figure in the Netflix "Tiger King" series.
  
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• Exclusive: Microsoft believes Russian hackers 'Fancy Bear' targeted Biden campaign firm

  10-09-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoftidentified a suspected hacking group that targeted a firm working with Democrat Joe Biden as the same Russian-backed unit blamed by the U.S. government for breaking into the campaign of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to two sources briefed on Microsoft's analysis.The hacking attempts targeted staff at Washington-based SKDKnickerbocker, a campaign strategy and communications firm working with 2020 presidential election hopeful Biden and other prominent Democrats
  
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• Why Caster Semenya's fight is about a lot more than testosterone levels

  10-09-2020 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Like a true champion, Semenya knows this fight is about more than herself or Olympic gold. It’s about women’s freedom to “run free” without artificial barriers impeding them.
  
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• HVAC employee arrested after mirrors found in Gloucester Township school bathroom: Police

  10-09-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An HVAC employee is facing charges after authorities made a strange discovery inside the girl's bathroom of a Camden County, New Jersey school this week.
  
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• NIH director: 'Reassuring' that COVID-19 trials were paused

  10-09-2020 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  The trials were halted after one study participant in the U.K. developed a neurological condition.
  
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• COVID-19 silently arrived in US near Christmas — earlier than thought, UCLA study says

  10-09-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Coronavirus had reached the U.S. and was spreading weeks before any cases were confirmed, the study says.
  
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• 'It's time for Roe vs Wade to go': Senator named by Trump as potential Supreme Court pick reacts by threatening abortion rights

  10-09-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President vowed his judges would ‘automatically overturn’ Roe v Wade
  
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• Black Democrat urges governor to drop Black court nominee

  10-09-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Black Democratic state lawmaker who is challenging the appointment of a Black woman to the Florida Supreme Court contended Thursday that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is engaging in “racial tokenism” by choosing someone the court itself has already ruled is not eligible for the position.State Rep. Geraldine Thompson said in an online news conference that DeSantis only chose Renatha Francis for the high court because she shares his conservative ideology, not because he is trying to a
  
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• 28-year-old teacher dies three days after coronavirus diagnosis

  10-09-2020 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  An elementary school teacher died of coronavirus complications a week into the start of the school year in South Carolina.
  
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• COVID-19 has claimed 900,000 lives worldwide

  10-09-2020 21:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Over the last two weeks, the U.S. has averaged 800 COVID-19 deaths a day, down from August when 1,000 fatalities a day were reported, according to NBC News' tally.
  
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• U.S. could restrict funds for 'malign activities' over Navalny poisoning

  10-09-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday it would work with allies to hold accountable those responsible for poisoning Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, including "through restricting  funds for  malign activities.""Russia has used  chemical nerve agents  from the 'Novichok' group  in the past.  The Russian people have  a right to express their views  without fear of retribution of any kind," the deputy U.S. amb
  
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• Inside the National Guard's Daring Rescue of Hundreds from a California Wildfire

  10-09-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two helicopter aircrews pulled more than 214 people from encircling fires last weekend.
  
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• Man arrested for setting fires in Washington state as blazes ravage West Coast

  10-09-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘California, Oregon, and Washington - we are all in the soup of cataclysmic fire’
  
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• USC Professor Who Used Chinese Word That Sounds Like English Slur ‘Not Dismissed Nor Suspended,’ Admin Says

  10-09-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business’ dean is on the defensive after receiving widespread backlash for his handling of an incident in which a communications professor at the school used a Chinese word that sounded like a slur in English, a new email obtained by National Review shows.Professor Greg Patton was giving a lecture about the use of “filler words” in speech during a recent online class when he used the word in question, saying, &ldq
  
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• Russia's election meddling tactics have evolved since 2016, Microsoft says

  10-09-2020 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers have all attempted to hack people and organizations involved in the 2020 US presidential election, Microsoft said on Thursday.
  
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• Twitter expands rule against misleading voting info after Trump tweets

  10-09-2020 21:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  The service has already been on a collision course with Trump over the president’s opposition to mail-in or absentee ballots.
  
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• RNC chair says President Trump's agenda resonates with voters in Midwest battlegrounds

  10-09-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, joins Bill Hemmer with insight on 'Bill Hemmer Reports.'
  
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• Opinion: Woodward can't be blamed for withholding revelations about Trump's early handling of the pandemic

  10-09-2020 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  No reporter in the history of journalism has surpassed Bob Woodward's ability to produce a blockbuster book at the most opportune time.
  
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• Opinion: Woodward can't be blamed for withholding revelations

  10-09-2020 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  No reporter in the history of journalism has surpassed Bob Woodward's ability to produce a blockbuster book at the most opportune time.
  
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• How Kim Jong Un ‘Played’ Donald Trump

  10-09-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, staving off the impact of COVID-19 and sanctions on his hungry people, may count on his man in the White House for unremitting support in time of need.“Kim Jong Un is in good health,” Donald Trump tweeted Thursday like a star-struck groupie, all while battling the fallout from his COVID cover-up exposed by Bob Woodward’s latest book. “Never underestimate him!” Nor, to judge from passages in Woodward’s Rage, should one unde
  
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• Over 600 University of Alabama students sanctioned for breaking coronavirus rules

  10-09-2020 21:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Three student organizations also received sanctions for violating the school's COVID-19 regulations and a fourth organization is facing suspension.
  
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• Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers all targeting 2020 election, Microsoft warns

  10-09-2020 21:17 via cnn.com
  
  Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers have all attempted to hack people and organizations involved in the 2020 US presidential election, Microsoft said on Thursday.
  
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• Europe's south tells Turkey: resume talks this month or risk sanctions

  10-09-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The European Union will draw up a list of new sanctions on Turkey at the end of September unless Ankara comes to the negotiating table to resolve a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus, the EU's Mediterranean states said on Thursday.Tensions flared between the EU and NATO member Turkey after Ankara sent a survey vessel to map out possible oil and gas drilling prospects in territorial waters claimed by Greece and areas claimed by Cyprus.
  
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