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• One injured at anti-Trump demonstration after police car speeds off with protester on roof

  14-09-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump supporters and protesters gathered outside president’s wildfire briefing
  
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• NC driver charged after video shows SUV run over BLM protester in Tennessee crosswalk

  14-09-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 37-year-old man from Bakersville, North Carolina, turned himself in Monday, police said.
  
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• Democrats to probe whether officials meddled with virus data

  14-09-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A House subcommittee is launching an investigation into whether political appointees have meddled with routine government scientific data to better align with President Donald Trump’s public statements about the coronavirus pandemic, following a report that one such appointee claimed scientists were trying to undermine Trump.The Democrat-led subcommittee said Monday that it is requesting transcribed interviews with seven officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the
  
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• ‘No citizen is above the law’: New York lawmakers want to make it easier to prosecute ex-presidents for crimes they commit in office

  14-09-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A proposed new bill would aim to pause the statute of limitations until presidents leave office
  
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• Decision In Front Of Pa. Supreme Court Stalls Delivery Of Mail-In Ballots

  14-09-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Election day is seven weeks from Tuesday and there’s already a delay in Pennsylvania. County procedures to mail ballots to voters are currently on hold and it’s unclear when things will get settled; KDKA's Amy Wadas reports.
  
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• Winner of TikTok sweepstakes is led by major Trump backer

  14-09-2020 23:40 via cnn.com
  
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• Jane Sanders says relationship between Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders is built on 'work' not friendship

  14-09-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has gone on the record calling former Vice President Joe Biden — the man he is trying to help get elected to the White House after he was defeated by him in the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee earlier this year — a "good friend," but his wife, Jane Sanders doesn't love the characterization, which she describes as a false one, BuzzFeed News reports.As Jane Sanders sees it, she and her husband "don't go out" or "get dinner" with Biden and
  
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• California fires have burned area almost the size of Connecticut

  14-09-2020 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  Since the start of 2020, wildfires in California have burned over 3.2 million acres of land -- an area almost the size of Connecticut.
  
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• 'They almost killed him': Attorney demands criminal charges in police beating of Black Georgia man

  14-09-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A family's attorney said deputies committed a "blatant assault" on Roderick Walker, who suffered bruises all over his face and body.
  
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• Israel launches airstrikes in Syria on 9/11 to destroy missiles

  14-09-2020 23:25 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  It appears Israel launched airstrikes in northern Syria to destroy a missile production facility on Friday, the 19th anniversary of the terrorists attacks on the United States, according to a private Israeli intelligence firm.
  
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• Trump baselessly questions climate science during briefing

  14-09-2020 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Monday baselessly asserted that climate change is not playing a role in the catastrophic wildfires overtaking forests across the west, rebutting an official briefing him who pleaded for the President listen to the science.
  
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• Watch official challenge Trump on climate crisis

  14-09-2020 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump visited California and met with officials about the massive wildfires afflicting the state, and cast doubt on the science behind the climate crisis.
  
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• US President's climate denialism highlights chasm between him and Joe Biden, who slammed Trump's blame game

  14-09-2020 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  • Biden slams 'climate arsonist' Trump
  • Oregon residents illegally stopping drivers at gunpoint during evacuations
  
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• Trump visits a burning West Coast and says 'it'll get cooler'

  14-09-2020 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  • Biden slams 'climate arsonist' Trump
  • Oregon residents illegally stopping drivers at gunpoint during evacuations
  
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• The Patti LaBelle-Gladys Knight 'Verzuz' took me back to my grandmother's kitchen

  14-09-2020 23:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  What started as a modern "battle of the bands" during quarantine has become a music history lesson that can make a grown woman — me — cry.
  
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• South Dakota Attorney General claimed he hit a deer, but actually killed a pedestrian

  14-09-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A spokesman for the attorney general says Mr Ravnsborg had not been drinking the night of the incident
  
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• Rochester police chief out in fallout over Prude death

  14-09-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fired the police chief and suspended her top lawyer and communications director Monday in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude.Chief Le’Ron Singletary announced his retirement last week as part of a major shakeup of the city’s police leadership but said he would stay on through the end of the month.Instead, Warren said at a news conference that she had permanently relieved him while suspending Corporation Counsel Tim Curtin
  
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• Judge weighs ordering changes to Georgia's election system

  14-09-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge is considering whether to order Georgia to make changes to the way elections are run in the state with seven weeks to go before November's general election.Lawyers for election integrity advocates, who filed a lawsuit challenging Georgia's election system, are asking U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg to order the state to abandon its new voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots, among other changes.Lawyers for the state countered that Georgia has made great strides i
  
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• U.S. voting officials scramble in wake of 'misleading' USPS mailer

  14-09-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A voter-outreach effort by the U.S. Postal Service drew a growing backlash on Monday as election officials in several states warned voters that the embattled agency was providing inaccurate information about how to vote in the Nov. 3 election.The statements by officials in West Virginia, Maryland, Utah and Washington state come after a federal judge in Colorado on Saturday ordered the Postal Service to cease delivery of postcards he said contained "false or misleading information" about how to c
  
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• Emirates, the glitzy Middle Eastern mega-airline, is offering a credit card in the US for the first time as it scrabbles for revenue during the pandemic

  14-09-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Emirates and Barclays announced the airline's first reward credit cards in the US, a move to keep travelers engaged and raise revenue during COVID-19.
  
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• Biden calls Trump a 'climate arsonist' as president denies science on wildfire tour

  14-09-2020 22:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Democrat stresses climate crisis and pitches green investmentTrump falsely claims climate science is still uncertainThe climate crisis and record wildfires in the western US forced their way into the presidential campaign on Monday, with Joe Biden calling Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” and Trump falsely claiming that the planet “will start getting cooler” and that the science is still uncertain. Related: Bigger than London, bigger than New York City: visualizing the si
  
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• Vaccine maker warns it could take until 2024 to vaccinate everyone

  14-09-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  The world's largest vaccine maker, Serum Institute, says it may take until 2024 to get everyone a Covid-19 vaccine if the vaccine requires two doses. CNN's Athena Jones reports.
  
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• Vaccine maker warns about coronavirus vaccine rollout timeline

  14-09-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  The world's largest vaccine maker, Serum Institute, says it may take until 2024 to get everyone a Covid-19 vaccine if the vaccine requires two doses. CNN's Athena Jones reports.
  
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• Carbon-rich planets made of diamonds may exist beyond our solar system, study says

  14-09-2020 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, that contain more carbon than Earth could be made out of diamonds, according to a new study.
  
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• Positive coronavirus tests prompt all-remote learning in several schools

  14-09-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A school district and an elementary school in New Jersey are switching to all-remote learning after positive COVID-19 test results.
  
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• Bear caught on video nudging sleeping man's foot

  14-09-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  A Massachusetts man was woken up by a bear nudging his foot after falling asleep in his backyard.
  
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• "A deer doesn’t look like a human": Republican attorney general involved in fatal South Dakota crash

  14-09-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Was our cousin laying dead on the highway for nearly a day while they were investigating?"
  
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• Poll: Number of Americans willing to get COVID-19 vaccine falls to new low amid fears Trump is putting politics before safety

  14-09-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals that less than a third of Americans (32 percent) say they plan to get vaccinated, a stunning 23-point decline that reflects rising concern about the politicization of the vaccine process.
  
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• Poll: Number of Americans willing to get a vaccination falls as fears mount that Trump is putting politics before safety

  14-09-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals that less than a third of Americans (32 percent) say they plan to get vaccinated, a stunning 23-point decline that reflects rising concern about the politicization of the vaccine process.
  
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• Legal advocates line up on both sides of Bill Cosby's appeal

  14-09-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Legal advocates are lining up on both sides of actor Bill Cosby’s appeal as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court prepares to review his 2018 sex assault conviction.Cosby was the first celebrity to go on trial in the #MeToo era, and his appeal could resolve lingering questions about how the cases should be tried.For starters, the high court will try to clarify when other accusers can testify against a defendant — and when the additional testimony amounts to character assassination.
  
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• As fires ravage California, Trump gives his climate-change solution: 'It'll start getting cooler'

  14-09-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom unsuccessfully pressed President Donald Trump on Monday to acknowledge that climate change is making wildfires worse across much of the West Coast.
  
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• Court rules Trump can end temporary protected status for immigrant families

  14-09-2020 22:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  The appeals court ruling means TPS holders must find other ways to remain in the United States legally or depart after a wind-down period.
  
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• Wildlife in 'catastrophic decline' due to human destruction, scientists warn

  14-09-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Conservation group WWF says global wildlife populations have shrunk by two-thirds since 1970.
  
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• Taliban talks: US peace envoy 'not happy about' release of prisoners

  14-09-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Speaking to the BBC, Zalmay Khalilzad addresses the controversial release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
  
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• Trump and Biden both boast about creating auto industry jobs — but differ on how

  14-09-2020 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I got you so many damn car plants,” President Trump told auto workers last week. Biden, meanwhile, is pledging "1 million new, well-paying jobs in the American automobile industry."
  
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• Justice Department internal watchdog is investigating Roger Stone's sentencing, say sources

  14-09-2020 22:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky told Congress that the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. told him to recommend a lighter sentence because of Stone's ties to Trump.
  
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• Analysis: Trump's indoor rally reveals how little he understands about being president

  14-09-2020 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's most basic calculation -- in, well, everything he does -- boils down to this: How does this affect me?
  
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• These US cities currently have the world's worst air quality

  14-09-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Three major US cities being wreathed in smoke from massive wildfires now have the worst air quality of any big cities in the world, according to a monitoring group.
  
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• Tennessee convict pleads guilty in Holly Bobo murder case

  14-09-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A convicted felon pleaded guilty Monday to taking part in the killing of Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo more than nine years ago, but he is expected to be released soon as part of a deal with prosecutors.Hardin County Judge C. Creed McGinley sentenced Jason Autry to eight years in prison after Autry pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit murder and facilitation of especially aggravated kidnapping.Autry provided key testimony in the 2017 trial of Zachary Adams, who was found guilty of mur
  
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• Court: Trump can end temporary legal status for 4 countries

  14-09-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the United States, a divided appeals court ruled Monday.While an appeal is imminent and orders to leave wouldn't take effect for months, the decision moved many people closer to losing legal status, including families who have been in the U.S. for decades and have young children who are American citizens.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court o
  
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• Joe Biden calls President Trump a climate arsonist

  14-09-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden makes remarks in Wilmington, Delaware.
  
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• Fact check: Trump makes four false claims in one sentence

  14-09-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  In what may be a new record for President Donald Trump, he made four false claims in one sentence of a tweet on Saturday.
  
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• Venezuela charges detained U.S. 'spy' with terrorism, weapons trafficking

  14-09-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's chief prosecutor Tarek Saab on Monday announced charges of terrorism and weapons trafficking against an alleged U.S. "spy" who was detained last week in the South American country.Saab said the U.S. citizen, Matthew John Heath, was plotting attacks against Venezuela's oil industry and electricity system.
  
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• In U.S. elections, it's winner take all — and Blacks are the losers

  14-09-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Why not just let the American people choose our president directly, instead of relying on some clumsy work-around to the Constitution known as the Electoral College?  
  
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• Newsom to Trump: ‘Climate change is real’

  14-09-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California Governor Gavin Newsom confronted President Trump’s position on climate change, saying “climate change is real” amid wildfires that have overtaken parts of the state.
  
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• Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear discovered in Arctic Russia

  14-09-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found the immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday.
  
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• Iran considering assassinating US ambassador to South Africa for retribution over Soleimani killing, reports claim

  14-09-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran has considered an assassination attempt against the US ambassador to South Africa as a retaliatory measure against the US for its drone strike in January that killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani.The ambassador, Lana Marks, a longtime friend of Donald Trump who was unanimously confirmed to her post by the Senate in 2019, has been informed of the potential plot, Politico reported, citing two anonymous sources, one of whom was “familiar with the issue” or another who had
  
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• Texas officer charged with assault in fatal 2019 shooting

  14-09-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Texas police officer has been charged with assault for fatally shooting a woman after a struggle over the officer's stun gun last year, prosecutors announced Monday.A Harris County grand jury indicted Baytown Officer Juan Delacruz Monday for shooting Pamela Turner in the parking lot of an apartment complex where they both lived in May 2019.Delacruz was charged with aggravated assault by a public servant, a felony that could lead to a sentence of five years to life in prison if he's convicted.
  
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• Seal joins in with River Witham paddleboard lesson

  14-09-2020 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The seal hitched a ride on a paddleboard during a lesson on the River Witham in Lincolnshire.
  
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• Flu outbreaks may be linked to COVID-19; arthritis drug benefit seen

  14-09-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Influenza outbreaks may be linked with the spread of COVID-19 infections, according to a European study.The researchers created a mathematical model of transmission of the novel coronavirus in Belgium, Italy, Norway and Spain.It calculates that higher rates of influenza infections would be associated with increased coronavirus transmission in each of the countries, Matthieu Domenech de Cellès of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin told Reuters.
  
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